If you’re a basic couponer, “Load to card” offers aren’t new. These are seen most through the PC Plus (Zehrs) grocery card and the Optimum (Shoppers Drug Mart) cards which either give you special pricing/coupons or bonus points for buying a certain item. A few other cards I’ve seen lately have added this feature too… Including Esso!
If you buy gas, chances are you have a points card to go along with it, as I think nearly all of them have some sort of incentive for you to keep filling up with them. Since we’ve moved a few years ago, I switch between Canadian Tire Gas bar and Esso which are right across the street from one another, depending on whether there is a 10x Canadian Tire Money coupon available. Esso is my normal go-to as they sell Slurpees! So, I have an Esso Extra card with them, which gets me points on gas and convenience purchases that I can then turn around and use to buy said gas or purchases, or redeem online for some other fun things. Esso also allows me to switch from time to time to my Aeroplan card in order to keep those points active.
At Christmas, they offered a deal of buy a gift card and get a free Price Privileges card.. which gives you cents off for a certain amount of litres. These aren’t new to me as I’ve had a few before to save around .50 a fill up. But when I called to talk to someone at Esso because my card wasn’t working at first, a whole new world of load to card offers was opened! She told me that I could get cents off each gas purchase for 100L, but then I could “top up” that litre allowance by completing offers like.. Buying gas and convenience store items.
Basically, you activate the card and sync it to your existing Esso card. Then hop online and log into your Price Privileges page to see available offers. Offers load for one month, and you click on the button to load an offer you think you would use in that month. Even if you’re not sure.. I would load it! After a month of use, you’ll have a few different headers show up.. Like “Available offers” that you haven’t loaded yet, “Added Offers” which show you the % of completion and “Achieved Offers” where you can see how many litres allowance you successfully topped up.
Now, this month Esso has the deal on of buy a gift card and get a card with double the cents off I’m currently getting (I have 2.5 cents off and its 5 cents). There is a button on the header that says replace your card, so once I use up my last 35L on my existing card I’ll replace it with this new one and continue loading the same offers to the card to get a little bit more money off per fill up (maybe a whole dollar!).
You can also buy high value Price Privileges cards like 10c and 25c off with your Esso points if you’ve got them to burn, but I’m a long ways off affording one of them!
It’s a few minutes a month to log in and load offers but I think it’s worth it for saving a little bit of pocket money.
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