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blueheron
365 posts
15 months
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Mazda in Hampshire? no. Not that i'd take it to a dealer. Autolink for me! pilchardthecat said: It's very annoying having to drive past a convenient Shell garage selling super for £1.39.9 when the supermarket 2 miles further is selling super for £1.30.9 Our local Shell has been a building site for the past year, being re-done. The initial re-opening date they posted on the hoardings was January.. It's still not open. Annoying as it was competitive, usually only a penny dearer than Asda, 2 miles away.
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miniman
16,055 posts
132 months
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Will be watching this with interest to see if someone from Shell participates in the thread 
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PoleDriver
20,247 posts
64 months
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Morningside
16,855 posts
99 months
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Not showing anything up even for a bog standard family car like our Renault Scenic!
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Fastdruid
1,248 posts
22 months
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jagnet said: Fastdruid said: My 14yo shed of a mondeo. Quoted £119 ~10 miles away. That's sold me then - 14yo Mondeo for my next car or I'll never be able to find somewhere to get anything else serviced  Well it'll be for sale on ebay next month, £1 start, no reserve!  Now, all I have to do now is find a manual petrol 5-series touring, seems that's easier than finding somewhere to service it.... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/bmw/5...
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lexham
91 posts
115 months
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"Johnny Ellis, UK sales manager, Shell Lubricants said: “We believe the launch of The Shell Car Servicing Network will be a welcome lead generation tool for many main dealers and franchised workshops, which might have seen a decline in car servicing bookings recently.” http://www.motortrader.com/latest-news/shell-launc...So I'm guessing that it's only for franchises that use Shell lubricants then? Which is why I can't find a VW or Mazda dealer. With the collective knowledge on this site + Google maps API, it would be easy to have a searchable database of recommended specialists (and even main dealers). Then we take a referral fee for each PH Booking and then put that behind the bar at BT&P. Or buy bacon sandwiches at Goodwood.
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Hoofy
48,532 posts
152 months
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miniman said: Will be watching this with interest to see if someone from Shell participates in the thread They're too busy crucifying the idiot who suggested the idea and invested all that money in the website's development. A website detailing the cheapest Shell petrol station in a 3 mile radius with a price promise to beat competitors by 1p would have had me clicking on the link... Interestingly, I received a voucher at the end of my Sainsbury's shop last week saying that I'd overpaid by 50p and now had 50p off my next shop. Guess where I'm shopping this week? Keeping it relevant, they also sell petrol 2p cheaper than the nearest Shell garage.
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miniman
16,055 posts
132 months
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Hoofy said: Interestingly, I received a voucher at the end of my Sainsbury's shop last week saying that I'd overpaid by 50p and now had 50p off my next shop. Guess where I'm shopping this week? It's mad, isn't it, the amount of loyalty a relatively small amount of money will generate. Sometimes I feel like a right idiot - spending £10 I didn't really need to spend in order to get a fuel voucher that will give me a saving of £2 on a tank 
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Fastdruid
1,248 posts
22 months
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miniman said: Hoofy said: Interestingly, I received a voucher at the end of my Sainsbury's shop last week saying that I'd overpaid by 50p and now had 50p off my next shop. Guess where I'm shopping this week? It's mad, isn't it, the amount of loyalty a relatively small amount of money will generate. Sometimes I feel like a right idiot - spending £10 I didn't really need to spend in order to get a fuel voucher that will give me a saving of £2 on a tank That's nothing, some people think it's a great idea to spend 10k+ on a new car to save a few mpg... 
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SrMoreno
136 posts
16 months
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No Volkswagen, BMW or Ford near me, apparently. Shouldn't they have held off the launch until they had enough garages in the database to make it useful?
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sulli
510 posts
89 months
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lexham said: With the collective knowledge on this site + Google maps API, it would be easy to have a searchable database of recommended specialists (and even main dealers).
Then we take a referral fee for each PH Booking and then put that behind the bar at BT&P. Or buy bacon sandwiches at Goodwood.
PH Staff take note - you should have this bloke knocking up a strategy for you...
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Hoofy
48,532 posts
152 months
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miniman said: It's mad, isn't it, the amount of loyalty a relatively small amount of money will generate. Sometimes I feel like a right idiot - spending £10 I didn't really need to spend in order to get a fuel voucher that will give me a saving of £2 on a tank I've never took them up on their "spend £50 to get 5p/litre off" as my shop is usually about £15-20. It'd make more sense to buy an extra £10 of petrol and set fire to it. 
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Charlie Michael
2,216 posts
54 months
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Congratulations Shell - if this website explains the rise in your V-Power by a penny then please stop it. Just stop it now.
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paulrussell
943 posts
31 months
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It seems I can't get my 106 serviced by a main dealer near me, yet I live in sussex.
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Dave Hedgehog
5,321 posts
74 months
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PoleDriver said:  Great idea!!!  I'll just book the Cerb in for a service... "Sorry, there are no TVR dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby."  OK, the garage 100 metres from work does a lot of TVR work, and Fernhurst & APM are just up the road so I'll just "Browse other franchises nearby" Result..."Drive Vauxhall Aldershot"   there are no participating VW dealers near by there are no participating Audi dealers near by i think
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Andyjc86
354 posts
19 months
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Not that I would use it, but I thought I would check. For the wife's MG ZR, the MG garage less than a mile away is not partaking, instead I would have to go to Mazda. Hmmmmmm
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All that jazz
2,247 posts
16 months
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What a complete and utter stupid thread. Who even started it? It's spam at best and the person should be banned. And even then the site doesn't even work. I'm in Leeds (ie. no tinpot village in the back of beyond) and according to the site : Sorry, there are no VOLKSWAGEN dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no AUDI dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no MERCEDES dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no FORD dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no TVR dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no RANGE ROVER dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no LOTUS dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no BMW dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no SKODA dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Sorry, there are no NISSAN dealerships participating in the Shell Car Servicing Network nearby Mods, remove this pointless thread please.
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miniman
16,055 posts
132 months
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All that jazz said: Who even started it? It's spam at best and the person should be banned. And even then the site doesn't even work. Shell paid for it to be started.
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zcacogp
10,106 posts
114 months
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miniman said: Shell paid for it to be started. Well that's a bit of their advertising budget smartly wasted then, isn't it! Haymarket, how much would a thread like this have cost Shell? Oli.
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Steve_W
727 posts
47 months
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It does have comedy potential though - who can get the silliest quote out of it? I put my shed in it - surprisingly there aren't any Rover dealers participating The nearest alternative for a full service on my 1995 Rover 218 Diesel is to take it to BMW/MINI Reading for the grand sum of £229 (i.e. about the cost of the car!)
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