Shell Pluspoints

Being an avid (some would insist obsessed), collector of loyalty and bonus schemes, offers and temptations, this I HAD to have! Of course I did…it offered Airmiles. There is a Shell garage very very close to my house and visions of me sitting on an exotic beach for doing nothing more exhausting than buying petrol did appeal. My husband's remarks that it would probably cost thousands of pounds for a flight to Paris did nothing to deter me. I would show him…and show him I did. Unfortunately that he was right. So…the scheme, how it works and what you get. APPLICATION FORM Are you a high mileage ... more

Having been a Shell Smart card user since its launch in 1994, I thought it would be worth considering how the new "Pluspoints" scheme compared in terms of what you got for your money. In 1994, each £6 spent earned you 1 airmile. If you spent £11.99, you still got 1 airmile. In 1998 the scheme was changed to reward you for each pound spent, but, quite fairly I thought, the exchange rate went down to 1 airmile for every £8 spent. The Pluspoints scheme quite cleverly removes the direct link between poonds and miles. Now you receive 1 point for every litre of fuel purchased (so the sweeties and ... more

Last night I filled up at the local Shell garage - in round figures, £48 for 50 litres. I used the Shell pluspoints card I've had for some years, and today I decided to find out how many points I had accumulated and what I could do with them. So I headed over to www.shellpluspoints.com to see what I could find out. It's easy to log on, you just enter your date of birth and the number from the front of the card (all 19 digits). The statements lag behind badly, for instance, at the time of writing (27th April 2007), the website statement is still showing the Oct-Dec 2006 quarter! It's over 3 ... more

I have a V Power Club card and had one since hey came out, this was also an added bonus when I had one of the Shell Visa cards. AS I was spending about £150 per week on fuel and about £2000 a month on the card the shell £10 vouchers came rolling in most months - great! You did it all via the website and everything was perfect. Then Shell ditched the Visa card and I was given a Citi card - after that disaster. The Plus points didn't come as part of the Citi Mastercard and were replaced by a small rebate on Shell fuel spending. Also most garages I tried to use the card with had problems with ... more

You can use their points to get vouchers for certain shops or fuel vouchers I used to enjoy purchasing fuel from Shell I had reverted back to BP for a while but because of BP usually being 1 p a litre more than most garages, I decided to revert back to shell I have been purchasing fuel for the last 6 months as I had 450 points stored in card I thought it would be a good idea to revert back to shell How wrong I was after purchasing £300 of fuel I have just found out I am entitled to 0 points as you need to purchase 400 litres of fuel in a set 1/4. You also can't log on to there points site to ... more