http://www.PipelineCard.org


seems genuine

 

well its free lol
cant do no harm to try

 

well ive joined only one way to find out

 

true.big story in fridays daily mirror.people just waiting for the cards.

 

uh oh

 

Just joined.
Can't see any harm sending my name and address. I'd be concerned if they wanted my bank details though.

Nick

 

at the last count there was over 180,000 people who had signed up for this,

 

Ben the owner is a genuine person and is quite well known in club motorsport.

 

ive joined carnt do no harm

 

Joined ages ago - just waiting for the card to turn up

Dan

 

Joined months & months ago. I'm just waiting for my card to arrive. Hope it's Shell garages.

 

Joined ages ago and get emails regularly:

Feb 17th:
Dear Pipeline Card Member,

This has been a very exciting couple of week for Pipeline. I did my first ever TV interview - and it went out on ITN news at 6.30 and 10.30. They also showed details of a scheme that is already up and running in Holland offering discounts of around 6 cents a litre. Check out our media page for a link to the story if you missed it and, if you've got broadband, you can watch the actual film footage.

Membership numbers have now increased to over 180,000 and the number of websites and forums linking to Pipeline is over 3000! This is incredible - and it's all down to our members.

Many of you have written in and asked why it is taking such a long time to get the cards issued. I share your impatience; we all want to get this off the ground but nothing like this has ever been done in the UK and it takes time to sort everything out. We are working hard to get the best deal we can for our members but, as we have said all along, it will be April or even May before we are ready to launch. We would like to be able to give you more details about where the Pipeline Card can be used and how it will work but until that has all been agreed and contracted you will just have to bear with us. It will be worth it!

Lots of you have asked if we could produce some banners and buttons so you can link to Pipeline Card from your websites. We have now set up a page on the site and you can download them from www.PipelineCard.org/linkto.html. We have also included a downloadable poster for those places the internet can't reach! Thanks again to everybody who has written in offering support. It all helps us to reach more people and improve our purchasing power. Keep spreading the word - we still want more people to register. The more we have at this stage, the better.

Finally, on the subject of purchasing, we have had dozens of approaches from companies offering special deals on various goods and services. Most of these have been wholly unrelated to Pipeline and its aims so we have politely declined to feature them on the site. More recently though, we have identified some organisations that seem to offer us genuine savings on motoring-related services. As you know, our strict Privacy Policy prohibits us from passing on your personal data to these organisations but we may consider featuring some of them on the website at some stage if they are good enough.

That's it for now. Don't forget that you can recommend Pipeline by using www.PipelineCard.org/recommend.html And you can unsubscribe as a member at any time by sending a blank email to unsubscribe@PipelineCard.org.

Best wishes

Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder


Personally I can't see it ever happening as a free-to-join scheme.

Reason 1: if Pipeline members start getting 10p per litre discount (say) then isn't just EVERYONE in the world going to join !! Then surely all the petrol company concerned will do is put the price of fuel up to keep some sort of margin. Result: No benefit to retailer or Pipeline member

Reason 2: If the scheme is just for one fuel retailer then all the others will just go out of business, as everyone in the whole world will be using just one brand of fuel. This will encourage all the other petrol retailers to offer Pipeline a discount. In which case, what will be the benefit to them of being in the scheme in the first place as everyone will still get the same market share. Result: no benefit to retailer unless they increase their margin as above, so no benefit to Pipeline member.

Reason 3: Pipeline will need to make cash to administor the system (card issuing etc) so will need to take a cut somewhere along the line. Either a kickback from the fuel companies (margin again) or a subscription from it's members. Result: less benefit to retailer, less benefit to average Pipeline member, maybe more benefit to high mileage drivers if membership is a flat rate.

However don't get me wrong, I WANT it to work.
However the best way to get cheaper fuel is vote the robbing anti-car b**tards out who think they run the country, and get some decent car-loving true blues in. (The opinions expressed are not neccessarily the views of the management etc...)

Rich

 

also joined, so should everyone else!!

 

Sorry to be negative but until recently I was involved in running a few petrol stations. If you live in a competitive area and buy from the cheapest station the total margin from refinery to pump price is a few pence per litre.

This few pence per litre has to cover all the fuel company and service station cost/profits.

A 5 or 10ppl discount in a cheap area would be impossible, a discount off something vague like average UK price may well happen.

 

As everyone else has said, it's free to join, there's no risk so why not sign up ???.
Even if the 10p litre thing does sound far fetched, I'd be chuffed if I was saving 3p a litre, the money is always better in my pocket !!!.


Mark.

 

You muppetts

The owner is selling all your details for 50p each .... he has now made well over £90,000!!

My hat off to him

Pete

 

you wear a hat!!!somehow i never imagined you in a hat.what type is it??a homberg,straw,bowler or baseball??

 

joined.....

 

pmsfl he even names himself a scam and they still come, brilliant. he deserves all the cash he makes

 

Just what i was thinking

Joined anyway

 

I thought you would be up for this pslewis, as youre a bit of a tight ****,saving a couple of pence here and there is you all over