Member Offer: My Esso Card

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  • Surfer
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    edited February 2019 #1022

    Going by many posts where people who applied weeks ago and still have not received a card, I don't hold much hope of getting the replacement card before the end of next year!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2019 #1023

    I feel sorry for Rowena in her role of messenger in this issue but surely the club has an embarrassed red face by now. embarassed

  • Yertiz
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    edited February 2019 #1024

    That's why she gets the big bucks!wink

     

    If Pump-King had not stated an actual date instead of allowing a "by the end of w/e" to allow a bit of leeway for delayed deliveries then I'm sure more people would have understood, maybe?undecided

  • Roy1053
    Roy1053 Forum Participant Posts: 6
    edited February 2019 #1025

    Is that 'will be extended' or 'should have been extended' or will my card be declined tomorrow?

  • Surfer
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    edited February 2019 #1026

    BTW the same token the club should have ensured that none of the current issues would have happened and they should not have taken on a start up company with no track record or history.

  • Rufs
    Rufs Club Member Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited February 2019 #1027

    if the club "has an embarrassed red face by now" they should have made a much wider public apology and announced the cancellation of the whole promotion, and that should have come from somebody much further up the food chain than Rowena, although, I have to say, that i am not privey to Rowena's position within the club.

    But as somebody else alluded to, the club will make money out of this, because despite all the failings there are many members of this club, and others i might add, that will have been able to use the fuel card successfully, so successful that they may be driving around on yet to be paid for fuel wink 

  • eurortraveller
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    edited February 2019 #1028

    As well as the Club itself a  lot of Club members have unwisely rushed to sign up with this start up company too.

    Anyway I assume the company has promised to pay the Club commission on sales and so I hope they pay up promptly. 

  • Rufs
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    edited February 2019 #1029

    but where in the original promotion did it mention Pump King, on the face of it it looked as though the club were introducing this promotion in conjunction with Esso, and as i have said before, Pump King were involved with the Shell card introduced more than 1 year ago.

    The original link given by the club directed you to what looked like an official Esso web site, it was only, probably, after thousands of members had registered did Pump King come to the fore.

    A very dodgy deal with a very dodgy company, 2 years in the making, put forward to the members by a club that clearly did not do their homework.

  • StevieMcC
    StevieMcC Forum Participant Posts: 14
    edited February 2019 #1030

    No new card received here... my original card that used to work, was apparently deactivated a couple of weeks ago (surprise surprise - no communication or heads up from the utterly incompetent pump-king), so that I only found out when presenting the card to pay for fuel.  Fortunately, I had other cards with me - fully expecting the scam that is this promotion to fail! 

    Pump-King repeatedly ignore emails or requests for information, and I find it laughable and ridiculous that the club continues to promote this scheme, despite this now being something like the 1052nd post on just this thread (not to count the various facebook commentaries!), suggesting the club are well aware that there are serious problems that should have be resolved before endorsing this.

  • Navigateur
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    edited February 2019 #1031

    I assume the company has promised to pay the Club commission on sales and so I hope they pay up promptly.

    The payments to the Club are likely to be based on the number of members that join up and then actually make purchases. The payout may well be triggered by something such as the fifth time the card is used. So the Club may not be getting the Golden Egg they have been expecting but just the same brown and smelly deposit that is being dumped on the members.

  • Mitsi Fendt
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    edited February 2019 #1032

    No new card received yet and if it does not arrive I wont be chasing them either.  My wife today bought unleaded at 1.14 per litre, pump king price this week 1.19. at Applegreen in Bridgend. Need I say more? 

  • Shockabilly
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    edited February 2019 #1033

    Well, I had the text stating categorically that I would have my Esso Card delivered at the latest by today...no surprises, it hasn't arrived!

    Not that I'll be using it (if indeed it ever makes an appearance)...I've cancelled my card details as frankly, I have no trust in such a dodgy company whatever they are called.

     

  • Justus2
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    edited February 2019 #1034

    I had intended to use the Esso card whilst we were away in the van but found that a nearby Asda was a full 3p a litre cheaper for diesel than this week's texted price..pumpkin will need to lower the price before I consider using it again.. If I get a card, and if I get a login that allows me to change the card number.. 😏

  • BlueVanMan
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    edited February 2019 #1035

    I think just as a trading name but not as an entity in its own right aka a legal persona. Companies big and small are can be quite naughty about clearly disclosing who they are who they are.

  • brue
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    edited February 2019 #1036

    These are off shoots of global companies. Here's a LINK but it's all out there on the web. I don't think this part of the set up is the problem something appears to have gone wrong nearer to the ground.

  • HollysPack
    HollysPack Forum Participant Posts: 20
    edited February 2019 #1037

    We'll,my card hasn't arrived, so I'm cancelling the debit card on the account.

    i wouldn't trust this bunch of clowns further Thani could throw them.

    if something goes wrong, you have no chance!

    Goodbye!

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited February 2019 #1038

    So who did the "due process" that should have been carried out before such a scheme as this was entered into and promoted by the CC?

  • EasyT
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    edited February 2019 #1039

    It might have looked great on paper and any past record fine  ................

  • Tigi
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    edited February 2019 #1040

    He lives in Monaco looking out onto his yacht, we`ve passed him a couple of times along the Monte Carlo end, one things for certain he didn't shop at BHS anyone that did was far better dressed!

  • Navigateur
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    edited February 2019 #1041

    Another e-mail from Pump-King which reads as if they are doing us a great favour.  They admit we are not getting new cards when they said we would, and nothing about the prize draw not happening.

  • Justus2
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    edited February 2019 #1042

    I am currently wondering if I can be bothered registering the new card if it arrives. The whole experience has been completely underwhelming. 😕🙁

  • Rufs
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    edited February 2019 #1043

    somebody doing a lot of "blue sky thinking"

    This will be just like the Shell promotion, lots of aggro then all will be forgotten as thousands take advantage of the benefits the card brings, and somebody at the club will get a pat on the back for bringing in all that lovely dosh  coolLets not forget this forum only represents a tiny proportion of the greater masslaughing

  • JohnM20
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    edited February 2019 #1044

    I understand that I, like several / many other members, was promised a £5.00 credit against their account as an apology for my / their application details being lost back in early December 2018. Has anyone actually received their promised credit?

    After contacting the club in January I was told that the credit would be applied automatically when I had my next fill. This has happened but the credit hasn't. Another instance of financial mismanagement it would appear. All that PK Fuels have had to say is that the accounts team will be reminded.

  • JVB66
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    edited February 2019 #1045

    There has been no response from PK when i queried it either as i was also promised £5.oo  off my fist billundecided

  • Bakers2
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    edited February 2019 #1046

    The more I read on this thread I can only say I'm so glad I wasnt seduced into applying. The whole thing seems to be a HUGE SHAMBLES. Almost 3 months since the thread began!

    I'd have cancelled cards etc to keep myself safe. 

    I believe the club should be showing they are being a lot more pro active in resolving the issue, I'm awaiting the tamworth fly past 😃. I think they should hang their heads in shame.

    I'm always wary of anything that smacks of 'a free lunch' sometimes to my own detriment, but my stress levels rise as I read comments on the thread - goodness only knows where they'd be if I had applied!

  • GTP
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    edited February 2019 #1047

    My Esso Card...Mayday....Goose VPN.....Caravan Cover...

    What next..or have i missed something ?

  • EasyT
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    edited February 2019 #1048

    Maybe the best is yet to come 

  • RowenaBCAMC
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    edited February 2019 #1049

    Hi JohnM20,

    I have forwarded this to my colleagues to chase with Pump-King and apologise that you have not received yet. 

  • chrisuk
    chrisuk Forum Participant Posts: 4
    edited February 2019 #1050

    I'm still waiting for my card to arrive, but I note locally today (19 Feb) the price of diesel

     Asda £1.237

    Esso  £1.279

    Esso pump king card £1.264

    Not much incentive then?

  • Surfer
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    edited February 2019 #1051

    According to Companies House Pump KIng was only formed in April last year so hardly 2 years in the making or have I missed something again?