A small fuel cost saving measure
Submitted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 14:53
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Robin Miller
Hi All
Well its only $15 bucks max per time but if you like to play
the game of fuel vouchers you can get 10c per lt off fuel each
time you register with safeway at
http://www.everydayrewards.com.au
before 29/6/08.
This is an incentive to get you in and your probably only meant to do it once but hey if you have 3 drivers as we do!
They send you a plastic card and instead of getting shopper dockets it is done electronically and you can see your history on the web via login ID and passwords they supply.
Each time you spend your $30 in store the account is credited to the card instead of a paper docket.
Bit of a pain I think and I prefer the little bits of paper
and actually only use the card once per/name.
Still it works
well if you plan for it.
I loaded up with 150lt today and got the extra 4c off by spending $5 in the
shop
for 14c/lt discount or $21 saving.
Reply By: Member - sdr00y (Beecroft) - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 15:03
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 15:03
The old system is less track-able. This new system will tell Safeway/woolworths where you
shop, how much you spent, what you bought, where you fill up, when you fill up, how much fuel you bought, how much fuel you use etc etc etc. free information for big business.
The problem with providing big companies with what they want is that they take us consumers for granted. They can also end up being the only monopoly company selling us stuff and then really take us for a ride, as the fuel companies are doing right now.
I'll stick to brushing the dockets or new cards and buy fuel at my local BP which is generally 5c cheaper diesel than any surrounding servos anyway. Plus I feel I get more km per fill using it.
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Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 15:16
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 15:16
Hi Beecroft
Well I won't be doing it much because I find the dockets are better , but its a good feeling to take there $15 from the incentive offer and swing back to what you were doing.
Incidently , unlike your area here in
Melbourne where I am , we watch the costs pretty
well and Safeway is almost always the lower cost as
well so I never get to use the BP and Coles dockets I get.
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Follow Up By: Twintrail(W.A.) - Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 00:38
Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 00:38
hi robin,you dont live in w.a. where bp fuel is 5c dearer than every one else. regards twintrail
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Reply By: Member - Ian W (NSW) - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 16:33
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 16:33
Her Indoors bought
home a plastic card and asked me to register it on the.
No Thank You!
They wanted name address, the whole box and dice. One of the mandatory fields was my internet address.
BY the way, I read the intro spiel and was attracted by the 10c per litre discount. Then I read it a couple more times and realised the 10c is applied only for the first use of the card, after that its the usual four cents.
My local
Caltex sells at 1c a litre above the woolworths/
Caltex outlet with none of that damned queuing to get to the pump.
I'll stick with the paper dockets which I am given to understand will continue in circulation.
Ian
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 16:35
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 16:35
Used
mine a couple of times.
Few points to note, that has been discovered by trial and error.
1. You can have a card for every member of the family.
2. The only difference in online registration requirements seems to be a different email address, even though the online registration asks for names and addresses. Get yourself a few hotmail or gmail accounts.
3. Get an extra 4c a litre (14c/litre total) by buying $5.00 of stuff at the station. Buy a paper and something else like a magazine that has a fixed price that you need that day.
4. The 10c/litre discount only applies for registrations before June 28th., and is valid for one month.
If Woolies or Safeway (one and the same) want to give me a 10c a litre discount why not?
Will throw away the cards after June.
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Reply By: Col88 - Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 20:52
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 20:52
Geez, some people really are hard to please.
Those that reckon saving something is no good, what would you say if they put the price UP 10 cents per litre.
Register everyone in the family, spend $5 in the servo on something you would buy anyway - milk, bread etc and save 14 cents. You were going to have to buy it anyway.
I'll take any saving I can. Who cares if they know where and how much fuel I buy?
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