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Thread ID: 146579	2018-09-16 22:01:00	AA Smart fuel cards	Driftwood (5551)	PC World Chat

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1453672	2018-09-23 01:47:00	Gull also has discount $5 and 3$ discount cards. But our local Gull is seemingly cheap anyway, and has "double discounts". The outside digital displayed price is relatively cheap - but the printed voucher displays 4 cents cheaper per litre. So savings using fuel cards maybe superficial. or not significantly different - (meaning prices are inflated possibly) from those that don't use flybuys or whatever. I notice too that our local Z and Caltex are often full with customers - night and day with those using card discounts I presume. Bit of a pain the wait - so I now avoid them like the plague. Also I been using 3 local stations for over 30 years - no loyalty there. Yet My local wholesale will crack open any beers to sell single to me. Spark allowed a "unadvertised" deal to buy a mobile; Car insurance was cheap because of my long standing use with their services. All give me deals without any cards. Nothing free or cheap to consume at Petrol stations - not even a water cooler on offer...	kahawai chaser (3545)
1453673	2018-09-23 04:25:00	$5? Mobil hand out those cards, buy $50 and get $5 off, buy $30 and get $3 off. Down the road they are $2.31. Gull with cheap pump is $2.26. Self serve Gull further away is $2.05. Yesterday. The AA Smartfuel because you accumulate your points and use them all later. The 10c you collected works out to be about 20c effectively. I also played with my spreadsheet. If BP/Caltex offers 10c off promo days that many people are able to wait and collect (like us) for us 2 months we do 16 visits. We don't have Gull in Wellington. But if Gull was 20c per liter cheaper for each of the 16 times, it works out roughly to the 10c promo days with AA Smartfuel. With AA Smartfuel we do 16x$40 visits, when they have the 10c promos. So that is $1.60 collected up. 50L applied that is $80 saved. 16 visits with Gull. Let's say you did 20L each time right. 16 visits is 320L. 20c per liter less with Gull. This saves you $64.	Nomad (952)
1453674	2018-09-23 04:38:00	Gull also has discount $5 and 3$ discount cards. But our local Gull is seemingly cheap anyway, and has "double discounts". The outside digital displayed price is relatively cheap - but the printed voucher displays 4 cents cheaper per litre. So savings using fuel cards maybe superficial. or not significantly different - (meaning prices are inflated possibly) from those that don't use flybuys or whatever. 16x$40 visits for us = $640. Gull's discount gets back $64? As for their "discount cards". 4c per liter cheaper? 320L x 0.04 = $12.80. Gull is also 20c cheaper everytime (?). 320L x 0.20 = $64. This comes to $140.80.	Nomad (952)
1453675	2018-09-23 05:28:00	BH and I have AA cards, she never seems to get the weekly 10cents off, but I do. Her AA membership fee is far cheaper than mine, yet to find out what's going on here. Friend was discussing petrol prices yesterday and inflation, I said it was to do with the 1% of the world population holding 90% plus of the wealth and therefore can dictate prices. My hard copy cash book for motor cars goes back to 1958 and I notice petrol bought then: 6 gallons for 1 pound ($2.00), you young blokes with your spreadsheets can convert that to ltrs. and dollars, bl**dy cheap ehhh. lurking. ps. don't get me wrong, but the spreadsheet was the best thing ever devised, used them from 1973 on with great success. Used to be MPG now it's ltrs/100k. lurks.	Lurking (218)
1453676	2018-09-23 07:02:00	SWMBO has AA membership and I have an associate membership to hers so mines only about $17 a year. I get all the same benefits without having my own full membership. Since this town only has one garage a Caltex and next nearest garage is 40 minutes drive away having and using the AA card is the only option. If I do fill up at the Z in town I use my Farmlands card as the gives me 12c off anyway without having any vouchers. But then I drive a diesel Ranger 4wd living rural on a large block of grass and working as a builder. I live down a road with a decrepit one lane bridge at the start so if that went down in a quake we can still get across the fords to get out.	gary67 (56)
1453677	2018-09-23 10:03:00	I was working in a Caltex service station in those days and.. yes, 3 gallons and 1/20 for 10 bob and 6 + 2/20 for a quid. Worked it out once at around 7c/Litre (from memory) :) Ken :)	kenj (9738)
1453678	2018-09-23 21:50:00	Thats about right, first time I bought fuel, it was $1.10 for 3 gal of regular. Converts to 8.07c/Ltr That would have been 1970. Within five years it was up to 45c/Ltr. Same price as a jug of beer.	Driftwood (5551)
1453679	2018-09-24 02:10:00	Within five years it was up to 45c/Ltr. Same price as a jug of beer. What a helluva choice!!! :devil That stirs a memory... SWMBO and I had just moved back to Napier and were building a new house in Taradale. At 4.30pm on Saturdays, I would knock off lawn making/fence construction or suchlike and SWMBO would give me a dollar to go to the pub with the boys. That would buy 2 jugs and a 10c packet of chips in those days. :eek::clap Ken :banana:clap	kenj (9738)
1453680	2018-09-24 02:36:00	Kenj: Where is the cheapest down there? napier or Hastings? How much? Cheapest here is the self - serve at $2.17 today....(Auckland prices)	piroska (17583)
1453681	2018-09-24 05:27:00	Waitomo in Severn St, Pandora industrial area, and Allied in Hyderabad Rd on the way to Ahuriri. Both seem to to top the Gaspy list. Ken :)	kenj (9738)
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