Great idea, but where to start!??

Does anyone have any contacts in the petrol industry??

Cheers,

Mossman

 

Great idea. I'll take 90 litres of SUL a week

Brian

 

Can I have 80l delivered to the office on a Friday please

Good idea put me down.

Ian

 

Definitely a good idea, though I don't know how we could achieve this in our situation

BT maybe worth contacting

 

Just an idea...

Between us we must get through 000's gallons of petrol a week. Has anyone thought of having a buying arrangement for Petrol? Loads of companies have them - could we sort out the same thing? If we could it would be a good way of securing SUL at a decent price, it seems to be getting rarer and the price varies wildly.

Ideas welcome.

Richard.

 

Geting it posted out to us might be a problem
If you can I need between 1 and 2 tanks a week at the moment

 

I don't know, but some big petrol companies offer some sort of discount (usually through some discount card) but this discount card is only available to ibg groups (Usually, companies wich provide cars to their workers, etc). You could try to form some sort of community (scooby@uk seems like a good idea) and try to negotiate those discount cards... I love the Idea, but really don't know who to talk to... (+, I'm in Portugal, so count me out of this one )

Max

 

Well count we in for circa 80 litres of SUL per week!


Jon

 

I'm up for it.
What about supermarkets?
Did you know Tesco is the biggest petrol retailer in the UK.

 

Great idea but give supermarket juice the widest berth possible.

 

At work we deal with Arval PHH who operate two kinds of cards, Allstar and Overdrive it might be worth going on there website or phoning 01793 887 000 - ask for the fuel team.

Hope that helps!

 

the group buying cards to my knowledge actually cost companies more money in that they dont reduce petrol price but they do have a admin charge!

 

This is actually a bloody good idea a m8 and me tried to organise this for both our companies a while ago, can't remeber where we got to, I'll try and dig it up.

Preferrable we need a single location with buy in from garage owners (dangerous) for fuel like Shell Optimax which I belive is 99 Ron.

I'll sniff around!

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On a similar vein

We should also import the petrol from Europe, as its cheaper over there !

 

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We should also import the petrol from Europe, as its cheaper over there !

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Yes, but you will get stung with import duites so you will not save anything. Unless you are thinking of hiding some down your trousers the next time you come back from the continent....

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(who has a fuel card for his scooby so is just reading this out of interest... )

 

Hey guys,
Aa a double whammy group buy, an added broquet pellet could be added as a free trial for those disbelievers..
Just a thought

 

sorry to put a stop to all this frivolity by law you are only allowed to store 5 litres of fuel at a private premises.....hence why all those "jerry" cans only hold 5 litres.............those of you with those big metal containers brought cheap at car bootds etc...think again.........


sorry.....

 

[QUOTE]fuel like Shell Optimax which I belive is 99 Ron.
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This is worth a thread on it's own!

where can I get this Shell Optimax??????

 

Didn't priceline.com do some sort of bulk buy fuel deal in the US? Maybe worth talking to priceline.co.uk??????

Just a thought,

Simon.

 

Brilliant Idea chaps!

Saves me going over to Ireland for it LOL

Im in for this, if theres anything I can just let me know!

 

Great idea ! It may be worth doing the same as my local Indian though.. A strong plastic carrier over the usual brown paper bag.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by kav:
<B>Great idea but give supermarket juice the widest berth possible.[/quote]


WHY?

 

Coz their stuff is delivered in the same tankers as the milk and orange juice

 

Now THIS is the sort of thing that makes a community like this so great, people united through common interest - I am well and truly up for it and will help if I can. Also, er 99Ron fuel.......... WHERE?????????!!!!!!!! I want it, I NEED it.....

 

I'm going to do some investigating over the weekend - I'll post the reply's I get on here.

Richard

 

Hi Chaps.. this is a great idea...

I have actually been working on this behind the scenes to try to put together a scoobynet privellage card for fuel..

It looks like it would mean sticking to one fuel company, but *could* mean quite a good saving..

stay tuned

Cheers

Simon

 

Simon,

The fuel card I have at work (UK Agency) allows me to use BP and Shell. There's plenty of them about and most sell SUL. I would think you could get something like this so you're not limited to one company..

 

Nimbus.. surely that's just a charge card though rather than a discount card?

We certainly stand a far better chance of good discounts if we offer loyalty to one company..

We are actually quite a long way down the road with this, so I step up the pace a bit and get things moving.

Shell Optimax???!?!?!??!?! where where where!!!

 

SDB,

good on ya.

You prove time after time that you want scoobynet to be better and better.

keep up the good work

robski

 

Come on then Simon, some of us will be spending &gt; £100 on SUL this weekend, time is running low

Are you looking for preferences on filling stations, just in case it will be restricted to one?

If so, mine are:
First Choice : Shell
Second Choice: Esso