Member Offer: My Esso Card

I must admit that you seem to be very defensive of the CC's Esso card.  Are you employed by the CC as a PR agent?   

You are probably one of the very few lucky ones that have not had any issues and find Esso fuel is cheaper than supermarkets where you live. 

No one expected these hassles from the CC who are supposed to be a reputable organisation and who also promoted the fuel card. 

We certainly did not expect threats of debt collectors because PK tried double dipping.  We did not expect a transaction to be declined several weeks after the threatening email even though there were no outstanding payments or issues!

BTW does any one know what has happened regarding the prizes offer for joining promptly?

Now here is a very very strange idea for the fuel pirates opps sorry companies why waste money printing cards the admin in invoicing and payments systems involved to take payment hes the real mind shattering part Sell The Dam Fuel cheaper to start with but we all now that will never happen fuel price fixing has been going on for decades and will never stop  

We used our card for first time on 19th of January, no problems, took card and pin worked fine. So what's the problem you wonder? .....nothing has appeared on the account and no money has been taken?? Worried about using it now .

From the other Facebook groups that also promoted the offer they are also having the same problems.

As I have said before this is a good offer let down by poor admin and support.

It's not for everyone as they may get fuel cheaper locally than the offer price like myself, but when the offer was cheaper I did save quite a few quid until they double dipped. At that point I stopped using it.

I haven't used it since as the prices aren't cheap enough but may reconsider if that changes. I will be more careful though and have a debit card registered that has no funds so will top that up as and when I may use it.

As it's free to have the card,it's a handy thing to keep in my wallet.

My view us that esso may have had a quiet word about pump king  using their brand  name so heavily for the offer and the website hence the new website and cards.

As per Rowena;

To launch this great new offer, My Esso Card are giving Caravan and Motorhome Club members an exclusive chance to win free fuel. 10 lucky winners will win 175 litres of fuel and another 10 lucky winners 75 litres of fuel! Members need to register for a card and fill by 31 December 2018 to be entered into the random prize draw. Winners will automatically have the fuel credit added to their My Esso Card account.

Can any one advise who won this competition as I am sure that there is legislation in place ensuring that the competition should happen on the dates specified?

They have had since the end of December for the draw to take place as no one has been notified that it has been cancelled or postponed.  We joined the scheme on 27th November 2018 so should have been entered into the draw.

It may actually be illegal to use a competition to induce people to join a scheme and then the competition does not happen?  I am not sure but will contact a consumer body for further advice.

I believe I have read somewhere that the prize draw was put back until the end of January because of all the problems registering for the card. We are now well into February with no notification of any winner. Are they going to try to move the date yet again because they have to issue new cards? They can't keep moving the goal-posts. Perhaps Ro can confirm that the draw took place and who the inner was.

I have had confirmation from the CC that the draw is due to take place today for all those that signed up before December 31st.  It would be grossly unfair if the date of Dec 31st were moved to a later date besides not one was notified that the date may be changed anyway.

I wonder if the winners will be published somewhere on the forum or website late today?

I think if you trawl back through through all these posts i am fairly certain that we were informed that the draw date had been put back to the end of January, I know we are into Feb and no draw made but we did get some indication, let us know how you get on with all your proposed legal actions 

I have had confirmation from the CC that the draw is due to take place today for all those that signed up before December 31st

Not sure how the club are going to handle this, because as i see it there seems to be a number of people out there who applied for cards before Dec 31st but did not and have still not received them, more tales of woeand yet more posts to this already bloated subject.  

Applied for my card on the 19th Jan, still waiting for it. Received a letter to apologise that it's going to be delayed.

Looking forward to using it as the fuel price texts I've been receiving from them are 5p cheaper than our local Esso forecourt prices.