At the moment Skoda is offering £500 of free petrol for every car bought. How do these cards work? Can one only use them at a limited number of garages?

I'm not giving you a concrete answer, but until someone else does.... I know Vauxhall offer this also atm, and the small print says it's a £500 prepaid debit card (VISA). In theory you could spend it on anything. Dunno whether Škoda are the same, but I don't see why not.

I don't get it personally, why don't they just make the car £500 cheaper?

I don't get it personally, why don't they just make the car £500 cheaper?

 

Because the general public are morons and sheep. We all know you can always get cash discounts (especially on certain marques), but 'A year's free fuel' or 'Built in wifi' will always sell more units than '£500 off our £30k car this week', which doesn't have quite the same ring to it. It's the same reason you don't see 'Zoom zoom' or other driver enjoyment focused adverts any more. Driving is dangerous and wrong and it kills kittens, school children and polar bears... So we'll negate to mention the 200KG weight reduction, 50hp increase and new magnesium shell of our latest model and tell you all about its shiny lights, iPad connectivity and 'free' fuel instead. :(

I don't get it personally, why don't they just make the car £500 cheaper?

 

 

Because, the likes of Visa or Mastercard sell these prepaid cards to customers... ie to Skoda, SKY TV, Engery Utils, etc etc at massive discounts, loss leaders so lets say £100 for £500 pre paid credit to get the brand awareness and pre paid card advertisment out there.

 

Its all bout marketing and offers to get the customer.

 

plus... you can spend the cash anywhere unless they provide a BP or Shell prepaid card.... then you can only spend in store.. so its fuel or over priced sandwiches and sausage rolls.

Edited 24 January, 201610 yr by RickTT

At the moment Skoda is offering £500 of free petrol for every car bought. How do these cards work? Can one only use them at a limited number of garages?

due to pick my car up on Monday, is this a new offer or just certain dealers that are doing it cos I haven't been offered this and £500 fuel card would be great. but how do I get one.

Can I pay the deposit with one.......much more use than £500 of free fuel. :-)

Edited 24 January, 201610 yr by FelisBengalensis

At the moment Skoda is offering £500 of free petrol for every car bought. How do these cards work? Can one only use them at a limited number of garages?

 

Depends a bit, the retailer's EPOS can report the kind of goods being bought, generally fairly broad headings like "Grocery" "Fuel" "Gaming" "Electrical" (that's how if you use your credit card at a bookies, they charge it as cash withdrawal), and the card issuer can have things set to only authorise certain ones of these.

 

Firm I used to work for had fuel cards that were basically credit cards locked for Fuel only. The catch we found is Co-op garages record everything as "Grocery", so the card didn't work there.

Because the general public are morons and sheep. We all know you can always get cash discounts (especially on certain marques), but 'A year's free fuel' or 'Built in wifi' will always sell more units than '£500 off our £30k car this week', which doesn't have quite the same ring to it. It's the same reason you don't see 'Zoom zoom' or other driver enjoyment focused adverts any more. Driving is dangerous and wrong and it kills kittens, school children and polar bears... So we'll negate to mention the 200KG weight reduction, 50hp increase and new magnesium shell of our latest model and tell you all about its shiny lights, iPad connectivity and 'free' fuel instead. :(

 

Shame is isn't really a year's free fuel, it'd probably be halfway worth me buying a new car. £500, on the other hand, is a heavy month!

due to pick my car up on Monday, is this a new offer or just certain dealers that are doing it cos I haven't been offered this and £500 fuel card would be great. but how do I get one.

It's all dealers as its Skoda led, but it only applies to cars ordered between certain dates. Note it is order date not collection date.

Superb is excluded included, but not in the finance deal...

 

Snipped from the T&C's (bottom of page).

 

Exclusions apply to Superb, SE Business range, Citigo S Trim and Octavia VRS 230. 

http://www.skoda.co.uk/finance/bigevent/default/

 

 

See https://www.skodafreefuel.co.uk/About/TermsAndConditions for full terms of £500 fuel card. 

 

No mention of certain cars being excluded so one can take it that the Superb is included.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by r08shaw

Woody 3537

The offer only applies to cars ordered between 15th to 25th January so unfortunately it will not apply to you, and it does include Superb's as it says so on my order contract.

Looking forward to taking delivery although a little dubious about the extra size of the car, particularly parking it in supermarket car parks. I have an Octavia at the moment.

 

r08shaw

Thanks for the link that explains it very clearly.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by daveat22