M13KYF Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Hi All Just had a follow up from these guys. It was posted up on the old site but for those who didn't see it, here it is. http://www.pipelinecard.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Is it just me or is that server down all the time? I've tried on several seperate occasions and still no joy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 I signed up a while ago, no news though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 I recieved this this morning. Dear Members Welcome to all our new sign-ups and 'Hello Again' to those of you who joined way back in November. So much for everything going quiet over Christmas - our Pipeline servers have been red-hot with new registrations. We now have over 90,000 registered members and we should definitely be in a position to start issuing cards by April or May. Petrol prices are slowly heading North again - as we predicted - and are set to increase further, so we need to get Pipeline off the ground as soon as we can. Press interest has continued and we have now been featured in The Guardian as well as some more car magazines. I have also done two more BBC Radio interviews - see the updated media page - although I still haven't got around to talking to my local paper in Reading! Once again, thank you to everybody who has done their bit to help us grow, Whether it's simple things like telling your mates, or more techie things like posting advertisements on websites and forums, it all helps to boost our bargaining power - which means cheaper fuel for everybody. If you haven't done anything yet, it's not too late. We still need a lot more members. Just tell two people about www.PipelineCard.org/recommend.html) Please continue to write in with your queries, suggestions, and offers of help. There are only two of us to answer you - and both of us have other jobs - so please continue to bear with us if it takes a little while for us to respond. We always read every email and we regularly add new material to our FAQ as a direct result of your feedback. You can cancel your Pipeline Card membership at any time by sending an email to unsubscribe@PipelineCard.org Best Regards Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder PS Just a thought. You have all registered your partners separately - haven't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted January 30, 2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 Just to let you know... http://www.PipelineCard.org signed up it's 100,000th member over the weekend. Well done everybody! It will still be April or May before we can send cards out, but these figures will help to give us the negotiating power that we need to get a good discount for everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 that is great news, hope they negotiate a discount worth using with a cheap supplier to start with..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I'd sign up too if I could ever reach their site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted January 30, 2006 Author Share Posted January 30, 2006 Just checked it now and its working fine. You got some problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 17, 2006 Author Share Posted February 17, 2006 Just recieved this update This has been a very exciting couple of week for Pipeline. I did my first ever TV interview - and it went out on ITN news at 6.30 and 10.30. They also showed details of a scheme that is already up and running in Holland offering discounts of around 6 cents a litre. Check out our media page for a link to the story if you missed it and, if you've got broadband, you can watch the actual film footage. Membership numbers have now increased to over 180,000 and the number of websites and forums linking to Pipeline is over 3000! This is incredible - and it's all down to our members. Many of you have written in and asked why it is taking such a long time to get the cards issued. I share your impatience; we all want to get this off the ground but nothing like this has ever been done in the UK and it takes time to sort everything out. We are working hard to get the best deal we can for our members but, as we have said all along, it will be April or even May before we are ready to launch. We would like to be able to give you more details about where the Pipeline Card can be used and how it will work but until that has all been agreed and contracted you will just have to bear with us. It will be worth it! Lots of you have asked if we could produce some banners and buttons so you can link to Pipeline Card from your websites. We have now set up a page on the site and you can download them from www.PipelineCard.org/linkto.html. We have also included a downloadable poster for those places the internet can't reach! Thanks again to everybody who has written in offering support. It all helps us to reach more people and improve our purchasing power. Keep spreading the word - we still want more people to register. The more we have at this stage, the better. Finally, on the subject of purchasing, we have had dozens of approaches from companies offering special deals on various goods and services. Most of these have been wholly unrelated to Pipeline and its aims so we have politely declined to feature them on the site. More recently though, we have identified some organisations that seem to offer us genuine savings on motoring-related services. As you know, our strict Privacy Policy prohibits us from passing on your personal data to these organisations but we may consider featuring some of them on the website at some stage if they are good enough. That's it for now. Don't forget that you can recommend Pipeline by using unsubscribe@PipelineCard.org. Best wishes Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 When are they gonna sort their server out though?! I STILL can't reach it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 the force grows stronger!!! recieved an update today Dear Pipeline Card Member, I just wanted to let you know that Pipeline Card now has over 200,000 members. Well done to all of you who have worked to build up our numbers to that level. If we keep this up, when we go live in April or May, we should have at least 400,000! Meanwhile,while we have been carrying on our discussions and negotiations, we have identified a possible opportunity to secure a discount on heating oil. We know that some of you would be interested in this, because you have told us, but how many? If you are interested in cheaper heating oil, don't reply to this email, send a separate short email to oil@PipelineCard.org. It's not guaranteed that we can do it, but we need to get an idea of how many are interested. That's it for now. Don't forget that you can recommend Pipeline by visiting unsubscribe@PipelineCard.org. Best wishes Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder www.PipelineCard.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 ...and I STILL can't reach their site!?! They hosted on a 286 somewhere?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 I don't know why. I can get on ok. Have you got a firewall preventing you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 ...and I STILL can't reach their site!?! They hosted on a 286 somewhere?! PM me your name, email address, postcode and house no. and i'll do it for you if you want Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 Sorted Traktion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Many thanks... PM sent. No firewall and every other site on the planet seems to work just fine and dandy. I dunno if it's their DNS that isn't quite right or something as I always just get timeouts. Ping: Pinging www.pipelinecard.org [213.228.244.140] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 213.228.244.140: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), Trace: Tracing route to www.pipelinecard.org [213.228.244.140] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1 2 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms ppp.adsl-5.router.parbin.co.uk [213.162.127.132] 3 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms adsl-5.uk-e14-3.router.parbin.co.uk [213.162.127.118] 4 17 ms 16 ms 18 ms ae0-206.lon22.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.78.133] 5 18 ms 19 ms 21 ms ge-7-1.core2.London1.Level3.net [213.200.77.130] 6 18 ms 20 ms 45 ms ae-15-53.car5.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.83] 7 150 ms 209 ms 199 ms 80.253.125.76 8 * * * Request timed out. 9 * * * Request timed out. 10 * * * Request timed out. 11 * * * Request timed out. 12 * * * Request timed out. 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 * * * Request timed out. 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out. Trace complete. As you can see... it's pretty dead to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 weird. I'm no IT guy but I've never had a problem. Have seen something where couldn't get onto a few sites and tracked it down to a BT problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest prescience Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Try typing in the IP address into the traceroute section of this: http://www.dnsstuff.com/ see if all the T1, T2 AND T3 traces fail? Then if T3 works edit the hosts file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc by Open With Notepad and add at the bottom: 213.228.244.140 www.pipeline.org (the underline is NOT required) save and close restart your browser and re-try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomoto Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 I signed up no probs ,not had any email back yet though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Thanks for letting me know about this scheme, I have forwarded to all my colleagues at work. I hope it works for us all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 Try typing in the IP address into the traceroute section of this: http://www.dnsstuff.com/ see if all the T1, T2 AND T3 traces fail? Then if T3 works edit the hosts file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc by Open With Notepad and add at the bottom: 213.228.244.140 www.pipeline.org (the underline is NOT required) save and close restart your browser and re-try its www.pipelinecard.org not pipeline.org Just spotted the little error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traktion Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Mine was pipelinecard.org though! The thing is, it resolves the IP on both the trace and the ping (so no need to put it in my hosts file), but it seems to fail to actually route the traffic for some reason. Even if I go directly to http://213.228.244.140, it still fails. If no one else is having this problem, I'm wondering if it's my ISP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikos Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 is this actually up and running? lots of talk of 1/4 m people signing up, but yet to hear of anyone actually getting a penny off a tank of fuel. is this an elaborate hoax??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC350ZGT Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Check back in this posting - they are talking to suppliers with the idea of a launch in April time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M13KYF Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 latest new for those who haven't signed up... Dear Pipeline Card Member, Top Gear's Richard Hammond has joined the list of Pipeline supporters by signing up and giving us a full page write-up in his Mirror column (now listed on the media page) Thanks Richard! The emails are still coming in thick and fast, asking if we can use Pipeline's purchasing power to get better deals on other products like heating oil, gas or even car insurance. For those who wrote in about oil, we are making progress and will write to you individually in a few days. It's looking good! Gas is a deserving case, with all the recent price rises, but very tricky - and we don't really want to spend too much time on things that have nothing to do with petrol or motoring. Still, have a look at this new page on our website (http://www.pipelinecard.org/gande.html) and see what you think. We have also had some thoughts about ways of saving money on car insurance and breakdown insurance. But don't expect a page full of ads and special offers. That's not what we do. Check out http://www.pipelinecard.org/breakdown.html and you will see what I mean. The other big question that many of you are asking is "how are the negotiations with our retail partner going and when am I going to get my card?" The short answer is, it's all moving ahead, but not as quickly as we would like. Wheels move slowly in large organisations and our membership has clearly grown faster than they were expecting. We are keeping the pressure on and we are still hoping to have some good news for you in May or June. Please keep the emails and feedback coming - and keep telling people about Pipeline. Our strength is directly related to our numbers so we still need to build up that strength while we negotiate on your behalf. Following some of that feedback, we have simplified the Home Page for people who already know what Pipeline is and simply want to get on and register. Our 'mission statement' is only a click away behind the 'What is Pipeline' button but you don't have to read through it to sign up. That's it for now. Don't forget that you can recommend Pipeline by clicking here unsubscribe@PipelineCard.org. Ben Scammell - Pipeline Card Founder p.s. We are getting quotes for the much requested Pipeline Card car stickers - watch this space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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