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Do you think the Pipeline Card will ever happen?
Yes
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No
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JonB
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PostPosted: 12:13 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Pipeline Card - Getting boring now. Reply with quote

Just got another "update" from Ben Scammell, chief of the Pipeline foundation.

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Dear Members As of a couple of weeks ago, Pipeline has been going for exactly a year and despite the long haul we are all feeling very optimistic and upbeat. Petrol prices are already at least 5p a litre cheaper than when we started, public awareness of our aims has grown across the country and, best of all, we should definitely be able to announce details of the actual Pipeline Card early in the New Year. Hang in there just a bit longer and it will all have been worth the wait. Meanwhile, we have a great Christmas SatNav competition for you with six of the latest Navman N40s to give away. Free, gratis and for nothing. Full details are on https://www.pipelinecard.org/navman_competition.aspx If you aren't lucky enough to be one of our six winners, Pipeline members can also buy an N40i at a price that even the internet can't beat - direct from Navman themselves. For those of you who remember the superb deal we were offered on the ICN 530 a few months ago, this is an even better unit at an even better price. All the details on are on https://www.navman.com/pipeline And please, if any of you think that two discount offers in twelve months is spam, don't send me abusive emails, just drop a line to [email protected] and we will take you off our database. We don't consider our monthly update emails to be spam, all members have agreed to receive them and let me repeat again that we do NOT give out your details to anybody else. See our Privacy Policy at https://www.pipelinecard.org/privacy.html rant over Smile Have a great Christmas and a happy year's motoring. Best wishes Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder


It's the same old story once again, it's becoming patently obvious now that it is nothing but a ploy to sell products for his own financial gain. I remember in June this year there was an email saying that the Pipeline card was only a couple of months away. Oh, but what a surprise, it fell through with the "proposed" company. It is turning into one of the biggest debacles I have participated in. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 12:34 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm getting a bit annoyed now as well, but it doesn't cost me anything to stay on the list, and there's far worse spam out there if this is all it is. So I'll just let him get on with it for now.
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Louise
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PostPosted: 13:47 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I joined up months ago and get the same shyte in my emails. Im not bothering anymore.
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bazza
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Re: Pipeline Card - Getting boring now. Reply with quote

Jon B wrote:
It's the same old story once again, it's becoming patently obvious now that it is nothing but a ploy to sell products for his own financial gain. I remember in June this year there was an email saying that the Pipeline card was only a couple of months away. Oh, but what a surprise, it fell through with the "proposed" company. It is turning into one of the biggest debacles I have participated in. Rolling Eyes


Let me get this straight - you actually believed the claims of someone with the word "scam" in his surname?


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JonB
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PostPosted: 14:07 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I always had my suspicions, but it was worth a try. Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:47 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

How stupid can some folk be.....?

Sorry but..

your all missing the point, the entire pipeline goal is not to issue some useless plastic card but to use the threat of public buying power to trigger off a fuel price war which will then gain the weight of the major petrol retailers and suppliers behind the true goal of pushing the government in to reducing fuel tax.

FYI Ben Scammell is a well known Motor racing enthusiast who has been campaigning for lower fuel tax since at least 2003
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PostPosted: 14:52 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

83p a Litre near me now as opposed to just over a quid a couple of years ago.
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PostPosted: 15:47 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Re: Pipeline Card - Getting boring now. Reply with quote

bazza wrote:

Let me get this straight - you actually believed the claims of someone with the word "scam" in his surname?


Laughing Laughing Laughing


Nah it's a legit name, he's a journalist. I actually emailed him about it before I joined up, seems I wasn't the only one, he mentions it on the site FAQ now. Laughing
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PostPosted: 15:48 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Retro-Man wrote:
How stupid can some folk be.....?

Sorry but..

your all missing the point, the entire pipeline goal is not to issue some useless plastic card but to use the threat of public buying power to trigger off a fuel price war which will then gain the weight of the major petrol retailers and suppliers behind the true goal of pushing the government in to reducing fuel tax.


Right. Well without the card and the initial discount that will never happen.
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st3v3
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PostPosted: 16:01 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

so how many people on here are signed up to this?
first iv eva heard of it. Confused
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PostPosted: 16:30 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll believe it when it happens. I didn't sign up to it and think that it is all just hype. Maybe he is just using this Pipeline Card as a tool to A: make a political point about fuel duty, B: peddle some of his cheap electronic stuff to line his pockets by using his own captive audience as his customer base.
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cqueen
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PostPosted: 16:50 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok - it should have happened by now, and im not gonna moan becuase it hasnt cost me anything for him to have a go at it.

BUT!- what is a piss take is that every email is along the lines of:

''we've made some real good progress this month - oh and why not check out our sponsors?''

Just email me when you actually have some significant news!and stop spamming me with shit!

Thank you.
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Retro-Man
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PostPosted: 17:39 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

Your still missing the point!

The point is that Pipeline approach the big fuel retailers with what amounts to an ever growing list of people whose buying of fuel can be controlled by pipeline should they wish.

The theory is they that the retailer approached will not want to risk losing that much custom, and a price war is started (already happening IMHO) then as profits get tighter and tighter for the fuel retailers, they add their commercial pressure to the already massive public pressure and the government in the best case scenario are effectively forced to drop fuel tax or risk economic implosion as fuel stations across the country shut down.


Thats the basic theory any way, if all go's according to plan then not a single plastic card will ever need to be printed.
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PostPosted: 17:50 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I signed up after I heard, from various sources including himself, that Richard Hammond had signed up, someone who knows motoring quite well (and is also a biker, not that that has anything to do with fuel Razz )

Whether ther will be a reduction for card holders or not, I don't know, but it costs nothing and you can take yourself off the list at any time.
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cqueen
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PostPosted: 18:11 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really doubt the current fuel price war has anything to do with pipeline card.
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PostPosted: 18:46 - 09 Dec 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote

at the end of the day, its a free card (if it happens) and the deals could be quite usefull and its not like he's passing all of our emails around!
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