72 people will win 1 million Avios points with Shell Drivers Club

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• Trevor says:

  2 Dec2 December 08:14

  How many petrol stations have blown up in the States? Probably the same number of planes that have crashed from using mobiles there. All the same, you are warned to only use the phone within and to leave it in the car.

• Trevor says:

  2 Dec2 December 08:24

  I used the app for the first time last week to take advantage of a £5 free refund offer from Paypal – now expired, but appeared targeted.

  I found the whole process a bit slow to get started, despite having opened the app and set it all up in advance. Would have been as quick to simply walk in where there was only 1 other in the queue. What slowed me down further was the trigger constantly releasing the whole way through – hardly a great experience, and not one I plan to repeat frequently, not least because Shell garages are consistently the most expensive in my area.

  While Raffles says you need 500l of fuel to get the £2.50 voucher, in practise this isn’t so for me. As a very infrequent user of Shell, I get multiple bonus offers for between 50 and 500 points, so you can get there much quicker. The sending out of the vouchers is another story though – no speed or consistency there. I plan to fill up with £40 at Shell for another 500 point bonus offer this week anyway, so may as well use the app and enter the competition, but with higher prices, I wouldn’t effectively be paying to enter otherwise.

• Bryan says:

  2 Dec2 December 08:31

  Signing up for the app is not too much of a pain, you get the time back when you don’t have to queue to pay. They also do other offers, I had a £5 back code from them last weekend as long as you registered and used the app to pay.

• Mikeact says:

  2 Dec2 December 08:39

  Bit of a relatively expensive gamble @£20 per day in my opinion, and I don’t like the only way to pay is via your PayPal account, (and Shell are never competitive around my area of the South Coast. ) Apart from that it worked well when I tried it the once.

• BeThatGuy says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:09

  Blimey,

  So I have to:

  (1) Download a 30Mb app onto my phone
  (2) Physically go to a Shell garage to pick up a Driver’s Club card
  (3) Register the card on the app
  (4) Go back the the Shell garage and scan the QR
  (5) Wait
  (6) Fill up and hope the fuel keeps flowing to £20:01
  (7) Cross my fingers

  Lost me at (2) I’m afraid 🙁

  Good luck to those who do win though – you deserve the prize for sheer perseverance !!

• Tilly71 says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:12

  My local Shell garage does not accept the paypal option, they disabled it due to many problems with motorists thinking they had paid and the payment didn’t go through via paypal.

• Gavin says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:25

  1 million avios would be great but the amount of effort required for a chance to enter is too much for me, also not a fan of using paypal if I can avoid it.

  like others shell are not that competitive in my area (Berks) as I have the full range of supermarket petrol stations keeping prices low, plus an esso (clubcard) on the way to work which is usually very cheap. the shell is in a ropey part of town as well!

• Waribai says:

  2 Dec2 December 09:46

  Yes, I used this too for the first itme last weekend to take advantage of the £5 of offer. Like others I found it cumbersome. I actually went to the till afterwards to make sure that the app had worked and my petrol had been paid for.
  Last thing you need is to be accused of bilking!

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