Who remembers the free gifts at petrol stations?

mikeecho

Who remembers these..



Well it looks like 2021 will see a comeback of free shíte from petrol stations when you buy fuel.

Circle K will be handing out aluminium water bottles when you make a few purchases of fuel.
(2 X €25)

It was all well and good in the 80's when we didn't have much.

But nowadays ?

BronsonTB

Yep, anyone else remember Texaco calculator watch's....:)
Collected stamps with each fill..

Tabnabs

How many tokens you had to earn to win the radio-watch!

gammygils

The Maxol petrol watches! And Free A Nipper!
And the Esso Tiger Tokens from the 80's and 90's
Got a load of stuff from Tiger Tokens catalogue

Plumbthedepths

mikeecho wrote: »

Who remembers these..



Well it looks like 2021 will see a comeback of free shíte from petrol stations when you buy fuel.

Circle K will be handing out aluminium water bottles when you make a few purchases of fuel.
(2 X €25)

It was all well and good in the 80's when we didn't have much.

But nowadays ?

You're buying the fuel anyway, the giveaway is to encourage loyalty. No different than loyalty cards in shops. Tesco clubcard, SuperValu real rewards.

The J Stands for Jay

I remember those soup bowls with recipes on them, bowls of pâté and some sort of glasses (maybe wine glasses). The parents would choose where to fuel up based on the gifts.

Edit: image in OP had loaded now. Those are the bowls I was on about. The in laws still have a full set.

biko

If they gave away scratch cards herself would be over the moon

mikeecho

mikeecho wrote: »

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Circle K will be handing out aluminium water bottles when you make a few purchases of fuel.
(2 X €25)...........

Spend a minimum €25/£25 value on any fuel purchase at participating sites.
You will receive 1 stamp for each fuel fill of €25/£25.
Limit of one stamp per transaction per customer each day.
Stamps granted for fuel purchases only.
Stamps will be allocated to your Play or Park account within 24 hours of a relevant transaction.
When you have achieved 4 stamps you may redeem your bottle at participating Circle K sites. ...............
This offer shall be valid from 6th January 2021 until – 28th Feb 2021

foxy farmer

3 of those soup bowls still in use in this house.
Set of steak knives was another one.

loyatemu

my parents are still drinking out of glasses they got from Esso back in the day (think they have a few of those bowls as well).

Most of my teenage record collection (cassettes actually) was accumulated via the Esso Tiger Tokens / Golden Discs vouchers.

mikeecho

McGaggs wrote: »

I remember those soup bowls with recipes on them, bowls of pâté and some sort of glasses (maybe wine glasses). The parents would choose where to fuel up based on the gifts.

Edit: image in OP had loaded now. Those are the bowls I was on about. The in laws still have a full set.

But do they have the Mulligatawny

The rarest of them all.

Del2005

mikeecho wrote: »

Who remembers these..



Well it looks like 2021 will see a comeback of free shíte from petrol stations when you buy fuel.

Circle K will be handing out aluminium water bottles when you make a few purchases of fuel.
(2 X €25)

It was all well and good in the 80's when we didn't have much.

But nowadays ?

They have been giving coffee/tea/chocolate/pastries etc for ages, what's the difference with giving something else in a promotion? You don't have to collect the tokens if you don't want to

Silent Running

I still have the fluffy tiger tail. :eek:

blue5000

Was it Shell that did the 3D :rolleyes: wild animal stickers in the 70's?

Fann Linn

Showing my age now but who remembers the Green Shield Stamps from the garages.

mikeecho

Just like circle k came out with the plus fuel, followed by Applegreen, and then maxol.

I presume they'll all follow suit with these free gifts

touts

mikeecho wrote: »

Who remembers these..



Well it looks like 2021 will see a comeback of free shíte from petrol stations when you buy fuel.

Circle K will be handing out aluminium water bottles when you make a few purchases of fuel.
(2 X €25)

It was all well and good in the 80's when we didn't have much.

But nowadays ?

If it works the same as their scratch and win scam I'll have to drive 30km to an actual Circle K station that gives out the prizes rather than the 5 not real Circle Ks just called circle k between here and their "real" Circle K. (If that doesn't make sense to you that's because the 17 year old in my local station explained it and agreed it didn't make sense)

Couldn't be arsed for a free €1 bottle.

Fann Linn

blue5000 wrote: »

Was it Shell that did the 3D :rolleyes: wild animal stickers in the 70's?

Sure was. The WWF collection. A lovely set. My eldest grand daughter now has my one.

looksee

I mainly remember the whitish coloured plates, bowls and cups and saucers with the animals on them, there was still a bowl with a squirrel around the place till recently, and a couple of plate with maybe a rabbit and a hedgehog, can't actually remember.

mikeecho

touts wrote: »

If it works the same as their scratch and win scam I'll have to drive 30km to an actual Circle K station that gives out the prizes rather than the 5 not real Circle Ks just called circle k between here and their "real" Circle K. (If that doesn't make sense to you that's because the 17 year old in my local station explained it and agreed it didn't make sense)

Couldn't be arsed for a free €1 bottle.

An express site on my travels, doesn't participate in the scratch game, but has gotten these bottles in stock.

So I'd imagine that a lot more locations will have h this offer.

mikeecho

Augeo wrote: »

Spend a minimum €25/£25 value on any fuel purchase at participating sites.
You will receive 1 stamp for each fuel fill of €25/£25.
Limit of one stamp per transaction per customer each day.
Stamps granted for fuel purchases only.
Stamps will be allocated to your Play or Park account within 24 hours of a relevant transaction.
When you have achieved 4 stamps you may redeem your bottle at participating Circle K sites. ...............
This offer shall be valid from 6th January 2021 until – 28th Feb 2021

Can I ask where you got that from ?
I can't find details on their website.

bladespin

Texaco footballs!

blackbox

Texaco stamps in the 80s.

The guzzler that got me all the stamps is long gone, but I still have the step ladder!

Allinall

Fann Linn wrote: »

Showing my age now but who remembers the Green Shield Stamps from the garages.

I always wondered did anyone save up for a Fiat Bambino with the green Shield Stamps?

You needed something like four hundred and thirty seven thousand books, or thereabouts.

All we got were sheets and pillow cases.

madcabbage

Still got my Daffy Duck that you stick on the rear windscreen

colm_mcm

Fann Linn wrote: »

Showing my age now but who remembers the Green Shield Stamps from the garages.

Was there some controversy over that?

Plumbthedepths

Fann Linn wrote: »

Showing my age now but who remembers the Green Shield Stamps from the garages.

Just about , could you get them in shops aswell? I was a very young child.

Tazium

Free a Nipper....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-gb9p65Z0

iamwhoiam

Superquinn points were brilliant . I still have casserole dishes I got !!!

olestoepoke

Mr Grace and free a nipper.

madalig12

Shell did diecast cars. Decent size too. Defo had a merc and Jag myself

BnB

We got Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA on tape from Texaco Tokens back in the 80s.

The tape is long gone but still one of my favourite albums of ll time

I’ve still got 2 white towelling bathrobes got from Texaco back in the 80’s or early 90’s.

Wishbone Ash

blue5000 wrote: »

Was it Shell that did the 3D :rolleyes: wild animal stickers in the 70's?

Jesus yea, I had forgotten about those.

They also gave out sticker with :

Keep going well
Keep going Shell
Keep going well
With Shell, Shell, Shell.

Fann Linn wrote: »

Showing my age now but who remembers the Green Shield Stamps from the garages.

All we ever seemed to order were boring Thermos flasks.

Isambard

loyatemu wrote: »

my parents are still drinking out of glasses they got from Esso back in the day (think they have a few of those bowls as well).

Most of my teenage record collection (cassettes actually) was accumulated via the Esso Tiger Tokens / Golden Discs vouchers.

we had a set of each type in use until lately when we dumped most of them

Wishbone Ash

The 'free' gifts were a pain in the hole for pump attendants like myself at the time Annoying customers always trying to get more that they were entitled to. They'd buy £3 of petrol and expect a full dinner set. "But I'm in here every second day" Blah, blah, blah. :rolleyes:

Ger Roe

In the early 70's when you could still get outdoor rooftop viewing access at Dublin Airport, one of the petrol station tokens (I think Esso Tiger) used to operate the access turnstile gate that allowed you on to the roof gallery so you could hang off the edge of the building and wave to your departing relatives.

Health and safety (and security) wouldn't let you do that now... the noise up there was deafening (literally).

mgbgt1978

colm_mcm wrote: »

Was there some controversy over that?

Not very controversial I know, but they did become Argos.

Allinall

I'm up for Dublin

We're all up for Burmah

Rear window or bumper stickers

neris

Worked for shell years ago in one of their distribution warehouses. Half of one side of the warehouse was full of stuff they either didn't get rid of in promotions or stuff they got in for promotions that didn't happen. They had a heap of bikes sitting there that had been for a promo in the late 90s

accensi0n

Still have these from shell, from 20 years ago or so, never even opened any of them.

The parent's car did maybe 10,000 miles/annum when I was growing up ....... I used to look at the Tiger miles catalogue realising we'd never have the tokens for anything really.

Circle K aren't too bad now with their play or park thing and the various app promotions where no purchase is necessary ....... "free" stuff is always nice but I don't tend to buy my diesel in a Circle K as I usually pass somewhere that's much cheaper for most fill ups.

mikeecho

Augeo wrote: »

The parent's car did maybe 10,000 miles/annum when I was growing up ....... I used to look at the Tiger miles catalogue realising we'd never have the tokens for anything really.

Circle K aren't too bad now with their play or park thing and the various app promotions where no purchase is necessary ....... "free" stuff is always nice but I don't tend to buy my diesel in a Circle K as I usually pass somewhere that's much cheaper for most fill ups.

If you work the system you can get 8¢ off a L in circle k

4c off with AA app , and then pay with a fuel card and get another 4¢ off.

Tow

Tabnabs wrote: »

How many tokens you had to earn to win the radio-watch!

It was a page full. There were 3 or 4 already filled in. I remember claiming a gift in Texaco House (Ballsbridge) and there was someone before us will a page of joined stamps stuck to the page. Texaco did not want to give the gift as they though the stamps may have been stolen.

Still have come Green Shield stamps...

BrianD3

Very different times, thanks for the reminder. I remember my parents being mildly obsessed with buying fuel in certain stations for stamps. We might have come close to running out of fuel at times trying to make it to a particular station so I could get a calculator watch or some other tat.

Another one was matchbox/corgi cars in boxes of teabags, I think the bags were PG Tips, a brand that would not have been bought in our house but for my pestering. Also only a minority of boxes had the cars, most just had tokens?

The biggest promotion that I remember though from the late 80s/early 90s was getting an Apple Mac computer if you collected lids from washing up liquid bottles and some other items (think they were all from Procter and Gamble products) The quantities required were such that it needed a large number of people collecting. My school did this and if I recall there was a lot of excitement about it

ZX7R

I have a teddy bear from jet oil would be over 35 years ago .
You would get a token for every 5 pound of petrol bought.

cml387

1970 World Cup coins of the England team from Esso.

Hugely popular here back then.

Surreptitious

accensi0n wrote: »

Still have these from shell, from 20 years ago or so, never even opened any of them.

You should sell them on EBay.

bgo1

Augeo wrote: »

Spend a minimum €25/£25 value on any fuel purchase at participating sites.
You will receive 1 stamp for each fuel fill of €25/£25.
Limit of one stamp per transaction per customer each day.
Stamps granted for fuel purchases only.
Stamps will be allocated to your Play or Park account within 24 hours of a relevant transaction.
When you have achieved 4 stamps you may redeem your bottle at participating Circle K sites. ...............
This offer shall be valid from 6th January 2021 until – 28th Feb 2021

I dont quite get giving out Free reusable bottles when they have no place in any store to refill the bottles with drinking water while travelling? Be better spending the money installing water dispensers for people to use. Bit of jumping on the green wagon me thinks.

beertons

My petrol can for the lawnmower, came from a Maxol stamp collection back in the day. Was gifted it by my dad.

Wishbone Ash

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

...No different than loyalty cards in shops. Tesco clubcard, SuperValu real rewards.

There is a difference. Loyalty cards are just a gimmick to gather data on your buying habits. That's why I never sign up for them.

'Free' gifts, when I'm buying the fuel anyway is a different matter (although I'd never chose a filing station based on 'free' tat). I buy my petrol in my local family owned premises (unless I run low when far from home).