Pipeline Card Update!

Big Spender · 25 Jan 2006 at 13:39

just recieved this! i hope the cards do get issued soon

Dear Members

Welcome to all our new sign-ups and 'Hello Again' to those of you who joined way back in November. So much for everything going quiet over Christmas - our Pipeline servers have been red-hot with new registrations. We now have over 90,000 registered members and we should definitely be in a position to start issuing cards by April or May.

Petrol prices are slowly heading North again - as we predicted - and are set to increase further, so we need to get Pipeline off the ground as soon as we can. Press interest has continued and we have now been featured in The Guardian aswell as some more car magazines. I have also done two more BBC Radio interviews- see the updated media page - although I still haven't got around to talking to my local paper in Reading!

Once again, thank you to everybody who has done their bit to help us grow, Whether it's simple things like telling your mates, or more techie things like posting advertisements on websites and forums, it all helps to boost our bargaining power - which means cheaper fuel for everybody.

If you haven't done anything yet, it's not too late. We still need a lot more members. Just tell two people about www.PipelineCard.org today and we could triple our membership! Use the recommend page on the website if you like. (www.PipelineCard.org/recommend.html)

Please continue to write in with your queries, suggestions, and offers of help. There are only two of us to answer you - and both of us have other jobs - so please continue to bear with us if it takes a little while for us to respond. We always read every email and we regularly add new material to our FAQ as a directresult of your feedback.

Best RegardsBen Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder

PS Just a thought. You have all registered your partners separately - haven't you?

Big Spender · 25 Jan 2006 at 14:54

when a certain amount of people have applied, you are issued a card which gives 5 - 10p off a litre of fuel, not sure on which supplier it will be but it will most likely be shell or BP, you will get more details from the site LINKY

you dont get any spam, and all you have to do is give them your email at the least.

edit - damn, beaten to it, oh well, use the link anyway lol

Big Spender · 25 Jan 2006 at 16:26

if you've given your email address then theres nothing to worry about, he cant give it to any other companys or mailing lists. he has his privacy policy written up on the website, and if he breaks this, could mean some serious implications

Big Spender · 17 Feb 2006 at 15:42

heres the full email

Pipline said:
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.

Best wishes

Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder

Big Spender · 21 Apr 2006 at 01:19

new update recieved yesterday afternoon

Pipeline Card said:
Dear Pipeline Card Member,

Pipeline Card has been going since November and some of you are clearly getting
fed up - and not just with the continual fuel price rises.

Emails are coming in every day saying "When are the cards coming?" "How many
members do you need now? and "Why the delay"? Well guess what - we're
frustrated too!

Nothing like this has ever been done in the UK before - it's not going to happen
overnight. The petrol discount scheme they set up in Holland took around 18
months to get off the ground. I can certainly tell you that we all want this to
work as much as you do - we have spent a lot of time and effort on it. There is
a big gap between an agreement in principle and a finalised contract - but we
are gradually overcoming some of the difficulties and we are getting closer.

I would like to be able to give you much more information but, unfortunately, we
are bound by a non-disclosure agreement that carries a hefty financial penalty.
So I can't even tell you who we are negotiating with. All I can say for now is
that we are making progress, we are still hopeful of an announcement in the next
couple of months, and we still need your support.

It is just possible that we will need to consider a different way of achieving
our goal but the good news is that we have already been approached by another
organisation who is interested in working with us.

There is other good news too. Thousands of our members have saved money on
domestic heating oil this month and others have saved money on gas and
electricity by using our price comparison service. It's not our main purpose,
but it is a way of giving something back while our negotiations continue.

Over 9,000 blogs and websites are linking to us and our media support is still
growing. So please keep telling people about us.

Rest assured; we are not going to lose sight of what Pipeline Card is all about.
It's about all of us paying less for our petrol and diesel. We are definitely
not going to do any deals with marketeers and spam merchants; and we are not
going to give up.

That's it for now. Watch out for us on Fifth Gear - the Channel 5 motoring show
- at the beginning of next month.

Don't forget that you can recommend Pipeline by clicking here
http://www.PipelineCard.org/recommend.html and you can resign as a member at any
time by sending a blank email to [email protected].

Best wishes

Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder