DCI fuel card -Diesel

mp3ireland2 wrote: »

http://www.dcicard.ie/apply-online-now-for-your-direct-fuels-card

The card is only really benficial for diesel as they don't have a price agreement in place regarding petrol.

I always thought these were for company owners etc. but a one of the lads in work referred me to them. You get 2 texts every week telling you what the price of fuel is going to be for that half of the week. For example 149.9 is the current fuel price with the card at any of the core stations. (A good few core stations around me for example, couple in Mullnigar. two in Ballinalack etc. although none in Longford town only Ballymahon)

There is no online map which is strange I think so you have to wait until they post out the map along with the card to see where the stations are.

There is no charge for getting a card, and if their price is more expensive just pay with cash or your normal card. The way I see it there is no way to loose out....

The money gets taken direct from your bank account every two weeks, so you don't need to worry about having to remember to pay.

You can refer people too and get a whopping 0.1 of a cent for every litre of fuel the buy!!

hi mp3

whiterebel wrote: »

I got rid of mine a while back. Price just kept going up and up, ending up more expensive than most garages.

it used to be higher and practically negligible to normal forecourt..

But it is very well worth it at the moment since the last few months.. easily 7 cents off the cheapest station where i'm (granted there isn't one around locally here in longford)..

when compare to dublin, it is easily 9 to 10 cents per litre or more in difference

lau1247 wrote: »

i.e. this week is 1.219 which when including vat is 1.499 for core site.. if not a core site then it is 1.249 plus vat which is 1.536.

That's still very good, my topaz card is 156.21 this week for diesel. Might be time to change me thinks.

Is there a service fee for using this service? i.e. say you don't end up using any diesel in a 2 week period?

drunkmonkey wrote: »

That's still very good, my topaz card is 156.21 this week for diesel. Might be time to change me thinks.

It was initially expensive when i signed up from last year.. but since the recent few months it has been cheaper than any forecourt I pass

PowerHouseDan wrote: »

Is there a service fee for using this service? i.e. say you don't end up using any diesel in a 2 week period?

No service fee was ever debited from my account.. if i don't use, i don't get charged.. when I sign up they did ask whether it was for business or private/personal.. i just let them know it was for private/personal use.. whether they charge for business use or not or any relevance, that I cannot confirm.. best to read the term and condition before you sign up if ye guys are skeptical.

All I can say from my own experience is that I note the amount of litre i pump from the receipt i get at the forecourt, i write down on the reciept the price from the quoted text i receive for that particular date period.. the ebill comes in the week after.. which work out exactly as it suppose to be..

The only thing is you have to be vigilant to use the core site (do your homework for local station), otherwise it will be three cent dearer than quoted (before tax) if you use it on a normal site that accept DCI card and if anyone bother to read the post from earlier, you can see I mentioned that already about core site.

foleypio wrote: »

Don't be fooled guys, this fuelcard is just like the rest, the first few posters sound like they have ties with the company too.

They are drawing you in with a cheap price but will up put up your price very soon, stick with topaz if u have it.

The cheap price is just a gimmick, a way of getting business in. You will be paying a very high price in no time, the second poster was right

there may be a lot of fuel card around in ireland but i certainly doesn't have any ties with DCI.. the only tie i have with mp3 is that i work with him in a manufacturing engineering company..

Foleypio, you can think what you like and express your opinion.. i can only comment based on my personal experience.. if you don't want to use it no one is forcing you.. also you have a freedom to read the terms and condition before you sign if you're that worried.

foleypio wrote: »

you shouldnt be coming on here misleading posters with your bargain alert, You obviously have ties to the company. I was working for a guy and he got shafted by them because he wasnt checking his prices every week, they played on the basis that he wouldnt be checking his prices every week and they qouted him in ex vat terms to confuse him more.He was paying way above pump price by the time they finished with him. All fuel suppliers are the same, they will try to shaft you if u dont check your invoices carefully

your guy/friend/colleague got shafted because he didn't check the price.. that is his own stupidity if i can be blunt about it..

with DCI they send price update via text on wednesday and friday to tell you the price will change from midnight of the day.. so no reason to say you can't check the latest price..

Yes they do quote it without vat which is strange at first but just multiply it by 1.23 to account for 23% vat.. how frickin hard is that to do for a grown person??

while i signed up sometime last year, to date i have used it about 7 times and no ebills have any mistake so far..

whiterebel wrote: »

Not as far as I remember, but it did seem like great prices for a couple of weeks, then a gradual increase, twice a week. After that, they were more expensive than any garage I saw. That's when I wrote to them and got it shut down.

Again, it was expensive when i first signed up compare to forecourt which was about 2 cents more on average.. but in the past few months it was very competitive and well below normal forecourt by 3-4 cents per litre on average..

by the way I need to point out that saving is for diesel only..

they allow petrol to be bought using the card but there's no saving for petrol..

foleypio wrote: »

Don't be fooled guys, this fuelcard is just like the rest, the first few posters sound like they have ties with the company too.

They are drawing you in with a cheap price but will up put up your price very soon, stick with topaz if u have it.

The cheap price is just a gimmick, a way of getting business in. You will be paying a very high price in no time, the second poster was right

foleypio wrote: »

they have loads of charges, thats why I wouldnt trust the op, they conveniently forget to tell u in the beginning

you've made a lot of baseless accusations about this company which don't appear to be true based on what other posters have said, so do you care to back up your accusations with some kind of evidence?

you have a grand total of 21 posts to your name and almost half of them are in this thread throwing dirt at DCI and 2 other well known posters on the forum, so why would anyone choose to believe what you are saying when it clearly isn't true?

www.dcicard.ie. There's a video on the site that shows how it works .You can manage your account online. You can assign a card to a driver and track the activities of the card. Re use in Europe, DCI card only works in island of Ireland. I'd be filling up in Ireland anyway - we're still one of the cheapest countries to buy diesel:)

Is there a list of Core stations available anywhere? Their website isn't exactly a mine of information!

For anyone interested, if you go online now, you can chat with Jane.