A COLAC district motorist is encouraging people to boycott the city’s petrol outlets in favour of cheaper prices up the highway.
Bid to boycott Colac petrol
Barongarook West’s Rob Hems says motorists should boycott Colac’s petrol stations due to inflated prices.
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You should see the prices in Lorne, it makes me sick! They are always at least 15c a litre more expensive than anywhere else.
Driver1, that is the exact attitude I was referring to in my post. If all Colac people thought like you, the town will eventually die. No trader in Colac is owed a living and they must realise that competition exists outside the boundary of their little town AND online! It’s rather sad you feel that you had to tell me to move (although I thought the name should have given it away). Yes, I already have moved away, and mainly because of the narrow minded attitude of townspeople like you. But alot further than Geelong I can assure you!
Dear ex-colacian, save yourself some time and effort and move to Geelong then!!!!
Paulie, I am sure he has done his sums and has also done his homework in full actually. If you go to Geelong and combine a shopping trip for things like tyres or electrical goods and even some foodstuffs like meat, it is very easy to make even greater savings. For example, if you bought a set of tyres at $100 per tyre (Colac is usually up to $40 more per tyre on average)that’s $160 extra saved already! Add to that about 2kg of chicken fillets at $6.99kg, another $4(try getting them for under $9kg in Colac!) and update your old tube TV with an LCD 80cm for about $249 (I am sure Colac are still charging close to $300 for the same) there’s another $50, you’d be so far in front ($214 approx by my reckoning) you’d be saving money for the next 3 months without needing another shopping trip! Add to that the typical 50-60l fill at Geelong prices of $1.27 cpl against Colac’s $1.49cpl and you can easily add up to another $13.20 saved and a total of $227 (approx.) that Colac would never see because of the “not thinking outside your township” approach taken by the majority of pig-headed Colac retailers that will only kill the town off if they don’t change their ways soon and start providing things biased toward the people who pay their bills…the customer!!
i go down to geelong once a week and fill up on petrol down there – its usually at least 20c cheaper per litre! 🙂 be good if it was cheap in colac too!
One has to wonder if Mr Hems has done his sums? To drive to Winchelsea and back will take a minimum of five litres of petrol at a cost of about $7 at Colac’s prices (in a very economical car). To save about 15 cents in Winchelsea, you would then need purchase at least 46 litres of petrol just to break even. And that does not account for one’s time taken to do so. I won’t work for under $20 an hour which means I would need to buy about 120 litres to cover my time and fuel. That would mean I would be driving a truck and then the recalculation starts again as it would waste a lot of petrol to get there and back. Have a think about it Mr Hems. Oh, and profit’s not a dirty word!