yes Vic.

i am a member 117,000 sign on  its with BP ALL Fuels  at this stage you go into BP and buy a card same size as credit card for $50.00 & $500.00  valid for 12 months. it only started today, there will be other amounts you can buy in the  future .

i'm painting at the moment will go into BP tuesday or wednesday to see how it goes      it's 5.5% off price of fuel  haven't gone through the email properly yet 

Don't like BP, so I won't be getting one.  IMHO there's always a catch somewhere.

[ Sorry Rockylizard, I just saw that you had said basically the same thing re. catches.]

Cheers,

Sheba.

if you are on a pension and you can save 7 or 8 c a litre it make a lot of difference .  not all of us have a big super to back us up . i am still working part time at 69 in my business . going to retire in a month or so.  i did have 3 vehicles on the road one of them had a machine in back of van  that ran on fuel 4L per hour while cleaning carpets .we charge $120 per hour to clean your carpets, insurance and all other things, am no better off than being on wages, i put fuel in tank every other day. thats around $1200 a month

have not been able to put my prices up as fuel goes up. 90% of carpet cleaners have electric machine and use your power.

stuff all this i'm about to retire and get on the road. i will look into this more tomorrow  had to many reds.

just think of the pensioners  they are the ones this may help that are on the road

this is the edit.  i would like to see 10% off the fuel

BP????if they were giving it away I still would not use it.

This is based on the troubles ive seen a had with it over the yrs in the motor trade.

Count me out..a I didn't even read the link.

JC.

I signed up early and was quite eager to see what I could save with the deal - until I got the email today and found out it was BP.

Some years back we had two Subarus and used the local BP for about 8 years (as it was only two streets away) - however during those 8 years we had recurring problems with the oil seals in both engines leaking - after heaps of wasted repair dollars, an independent motor engineer traced it down to one or two additives in the BP fuel that slowly over time attacked and shrank the rubber in the seals causing leaks. As the Subies are a flat four boxer engine, it has twice as many oil seals as most other four cylinder cars, and as they are low down on the motor, it requires a MAJOR job to replace the oil seals. After 2 total seal replacements in both cars costing us over $900 for each car twice, we said enough was enough, and changed to the local Mobil, Caltex or Shell. Strangely enough over the remaining 4 years we had both cars we had no further trouble with shrinking oil seals.

We have only used BP maybe twice in the years since, and then only because BP was the ONLY servo in that town. So, I'm giving a big NO to the Big Switch deal - I figure that Caltex and Shell will soon drop their base price to compete head on with BP and the Big Switch deal, while still adhering to their own 'no more than 4c shopper dockets discount' pact.

Regards, Brian

Bear in mind that whoever runs Big Switch may also have offers of other fuel suppliers, not just BP.

It is not owned by BP but obviously they are the one being used at the moment.

Interesting that BP fuels can cause problems, never heard of that before.

Once in an auto shop I was asking about fuel additives for diesels and a bloke working there told me they were already in BP fuel as he had worked for BP at one time, I can't recall what the additives were though.   

Giving it a go anyway Wombat, you can unsubscribe to it any time you like, seems ok to me.

i logged on to my big switch , have paid $100.00 for 2 cards they will post the cards to me.

2xGroup-Discount Fuel Cards $106  for $100   you get extra $3 per card.  we will wait and see ?

Daryl620 wrote:

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Hi Wombat,
Why not open a dummy email account with Gmail or Hotmail, which can use for these purposes....

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 I can't keep track of all the email accounts I have now without another one, but that could work, I also don't like the idea that a company will not give information so that I can make my decision BEFORE I sign up.

leevin wrote:

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What is wrong with BP fuel JC?
I have always used it.
Which brand is best/better?

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 The very first tank that I used back when I was about 18 had no kick in it,the car was so sluggish.Got back home to my regular brand at the time a all was back to normal ; hence I never went back to it.

Many yrs later in my place of work the won a contract to supply crushed gravell to RTA for a hwy upgrade;they then hunted around for the cheapest fuel supply;you guessed itBP. My comment was you will regrete this.

Being so full on with a big job one service vehicle was not always enough so I often had to use my own ute; for which they replaced my fuel with BP. Every time I would have tobear a slow sluggish trip of 45 mins home ,This happened regular over a 12mth period , my regular fuel was mobil or shell.

Then came the diesel isues;first there was lots of dirt in the fuel ;got that sorted than came all the water, got that sorted.

Now comes the big one       fuel loaded with wax. Yes wax is used in very cold areas to stop diesel from freezing up. 1st we are not in a cold region .2nd the mix was so overloaded that all fuel filters blocked up.

A fleet of 17 trucks doing rounds of 120kl per load were just dead along the roadside every where;by time I repaired one another one had stopped. The contents of filters was just like thickened cream .

For weeks we chased trucks up a down the road changing fuel filters by the hundreds ,adding concentrates to break down the wax ,cleaners to clean injectors a pumps etc etc.

Need I say any more ;will never change my opinion of BP.

As said previously, Big Switch does not only look for deals with one fuel supplier, they also have other deals.

See this latest info from Big Switch;

"Hi Members,

I just wanted to personally say thanks for taking part in the Big Petrol Switch, and helping to unlock group-discounted petrol in Australia.

There is no doubt the Big Petrol Switch was our most ambitious campaign ever, and its success is a real win for Australian drivers.

The campaign was only possible thanks to your support, so thanks again for helping to open a new front in the petrol price wars.

As a One Big Switch member, you can also use the buying power of our 500,000+ members to cut the cost of other household bills.

In NSW and South-East Queensland, One Big Switch currently has group-discounted electricity offers available. Click here to see the electricity offers if you're in these areas.

All around Australia, we have group-discounted offers on Credit Cards and Life Insurance. Click here to visit your dashboard and see the full details of these offers.

Thanks,

Lachlan Harris

One Big Switch Co-Founder"