How to get Cheaper Heating Oil in Devon and Somerset.

The opportunity for you to save money by obtaining your Heating Oil at a better price than you normally would be able to achieve by organising it yourself.

We contact heating oil companies offering to place a bulk order for ‘tens of thousands’ of litres with the company that gives us the best deal. This discounted price, which you would find difficult to achieve ordering as an individual, is then passed directly onto you.

Our annual membership fee is £30 paid by Direct Debit through the well respected financial institution London & Zurich.  

£20 of this fee could be returned to you by cheque in the event that you recommend WOPEC to a friend, neighbour or family member who resides in Devon or Somerset, with NO LIMIT as to how many times you do this.

• A FREE “Lost & Found” service with you receiving a key fob and two stickers.  This enables any lost keys, mobile telephone, I-Pad, lap top computer or any other portable item of high value used outside of your home to be quickly returned to you due to a Cash Reward incentive.
•  An optional Lottery Syndicate where we frequently win small amounts whilst waiting for the “Big One”!
• Boiler and oil tank replacement service.
• Chimney sweep. 

Whenever, on your recommendation, a person joins WOPEC, we will send you a £20 “thank you” cheque for introducing them with NO LIMIT as to the amount of times this payment can be received in any one year.   

No, you certainly will NOT be inundated with e-mails like some companies do.  In fact, you will be exceptionally “unlucky” if you were to receive one per year at the most from us!  The reason being is that e-mails mean further administration, which costs money, as well as the fact that we have no further information to impart to you, other than what is already clearly shown within our web site. 

We obviously will reply to any e-mails that you send to us which we normally do within the same day or next day at the latest.   

We generally manage to keep our costs down by not posting any information to our members other than confirming your membership when you first join us, also, by not accepting telephone orders or e-mails, we reduce the risk of “malicious” ordering and any misunderstanding that may take place whilst placing an order verbally.

90% of all our members have joined us by receiving a direct recommendation to do so from a friend, relative or neighbour who have already experienced the savings to be obtained through our bulk buying co-operative. No form of advertising beats “word of mouth” from people who want others to benefit from their good fortune.

Because every time WOPEC places an order the resultant price per litre is put into Past Orders on the menu bar. It shows the discounted price we managed to achieve in the previous 12 months so that you can compare this price with what you obtained, hopefully seeing the sort of savings you would have made had you been a member of WOPEC. 

Under normal circumstances you sensibly would never consider ordering anything without first being aware of the price!  So, joining WOPEC does require a “leap of faith” on your part, as you will never know the price before placing a provisional order with us.  The reason for this is that we never know what price we will manage to achieve until negotiations with the oil distributors have been completed.  To achieve a very competitive price, like we always do, we offer to place a sufficiently large enough order with an oil distributor so as to attract a good discounted price from them, with this price being passed onto you. 

Oil prices are extremely volatile, so once a deal has been concluded it is important that we secure the price by sending off details of the members who have ordered as soon as possible. The price is disclosed in the LATEST OIL ORDER link within the Members Page of this web site, normally on the day we place the order, where you can then decide if you still wish to continue with delivery or not.  In the unlikely event that you were not happy with the price then you could cancel your order directly with whoever we have placed it with.

No, we do not receive any form of remuneration from any heating oil company, including advertising, other than your yearly membership fee. This allows us to be completely impartial and only select the heating oil supplier who offers us the very best discount which we then pass directly on to you.

After initially completing the membership procedure, none whatsoever, apart from any further communication you may wish to have direct with the heating oil supplier once the following information has been viewed by you in the Members Page on this web site every time we place an order:-

• The name of the heating oil supplier that will be delivering your oil order.

• The price per litre that we have negotiated on your behalf.

• An approximate delivery date.

• Payment options.

• A contact telephone number.

To ensure a close geographical area for delivery we only operate within the whole of Devon and Somerset. 

No, apart from your annual fee, we do not accept any money from you.

You will pay for your oil direct to which ever company we have obtained the best price from, normally by cheque, credit or debit card on receipt of an invoice.  A few companies insist on payment prior to delivery  if you have never used them before with any subsequent orders from you being paid like normal on receipt of an invoice.

In the unlikely event that you were not happy with our price then YES YOU CAN cancel the order direct with the oil distributor we have chosen to supply you..

The reason you can cancel is that your order to us  is only PROVISIONAL.  In effect you are only “lending” us your order, which when added to many others forms a large pool which oil distributors find attractive hence the good discount that we always achieve.

Once you have decided to confirm your membership and we receive our fee you will have full access to the Members Page on this web site. This will enable you to order heating oil as well as other services offered by us.

Yes, you can, as long as you remember that we will only physically place your order with the oil distributor when we order in bulk on specified days of the month (See Order Frequency on the menu bar). 

There is no limit to the amount of times you could order. At present we take orders twice a month during the Autumn/Winter months with the exception of December when we only order once, and once a month during the Spring/Summer so you could in theory order 17 times a year if you so wished. This flexibility means that it is unlikely you will run out of oil and have to order outside of our cooperative thereby paying a considerable amount more.

As much as you require bearing in mind that you only pay 5% VAT if the oil is for domestic consumption and is less than 2,300 litres. If you order more than 2,300 litres at any one time you may be required to sign a disclaimer by the oil supplier, stating that your oil order is only for domestic use. If you are a business, then you will pay 20% VAT.

WOPEC normally passes details of its member’s requirements to the oil supplier on the same day that the order is placed or the following day at the latest. Because we normally order a large volume of oil it does take time for the oil supplier to process and deliver it, with not all members receiving their order on the same day. Most suppliers state that the entire order will be completed over a 10-working day period with this being extended still further during high demand periods such as Christmas or during adverse weather conditions.

Fabulous, at least you are getting a little discount by ordering through them, but not necessarily the maximum that you could achieve which would be through us. Small groups often do not have sufficient ‘buying power’ to get a really good discount and do not order as frequently as we do. They may also not offer the other services like we do such as a FREE lost and found service.

Yes you can. But please remember that our £30 annual fee is paid yearly in advance with no part of this fee being returned to you in the event that you cancel your membership. In the unlikely event that you were not satisfied with our service or that you were moving outside our delivery area, then a letter or e-mail from you cancelling your membership is all that is required so that you would not continue to receive unsolicited e-mails from us.

No I’m sorry you can’t, but there is nothing to stop you using a computer in your local library or an internet cafe. Better yet ask a neighbour, friend or family member to act as your ‘WOPEC Buddy’ by using their computer for you to order your oil and receive information from us.

Yes, you can, as long as it is a Smart Phone.

We only accept oil orders through the Members Area of our web site with NO orders being accepted by e-mail or telephone.

When you complete the WOPEC membership form the information you give us is used as the basis for our oil order submit form so the information given MUST be accurate. 

When you click on the Oil Order link within our web site all the information you have already supplied us will automatically appear so there is no further input required from you, other than to input the amount of oil you require and press the SUBMIT button. A “thank you for your order” phrase will appear acknowledging your order visually as well as advising you that you will also receive a confirmation e-mail shortly.

We manage to keep our costs down by not posting any information to our members, also, by not accepting telephone orders or e-mails, we reduce the risk of “malicious” ordering and any misunderstanding that may take place whilst placing an order verbally.

Only you can answer that question. It stands to reason that the more oil you order the bigger your potential saving with our yearly fee becoming very cost effective. We can confidently state that the money saved by ordering just once a year often pays for your membership fee as well as making you a small ‘profit’, whilst ordering very large amounts can save you hundreds of pounds!

• We confirm your order by an immediate e-mail along with the time and date.
• We place all our orders for that month into a large buying ‘pool’.
• We then contact various oil distribution companies to obtain the best price.
• We place your order.
• We send the chosen company your name, address and amount of oil required.
• We then illustrate on the Members Page of this web site which company will be delivering your oil, what the price will be, the payment criteria, an approximate delivery date and contact telephone number.
• You receive the oil and pay the company direct like you normally do.

No, I’m afraid it isn’t through WOPEC. Our successful formulae is based on orders being delivered within a small geographical area normally within a 10 working day period. This enables the oil supplier to reduce their costs and pass that saving onto WOPEC members in the form of cheaper oil by organising delivery at their convenience.  A guaranteed next day delivery normally means a considerable higher price for your oil to achieve this kind of service!

In most cases YES we can. But please bear in mind that our main aim is to get the best possible price for our membership as a whole and then place a very large order. On occasions this order will be placed with a heating oil supplier who does not possess a ‘mini tanker’, in which case if this happens then we are sorry but you will unfortunately NOT be able to receive your oil order through WOPEC.

No there isn’t. Prior to joining WOPEC most members would let their oil run very low so as to be able to obtain the financial benefit associated with ordering over 1000 litres, as opposed to having to pay the higher per litre price for ordering less. By being a member of WOPEC this price differential no longer exists, as all members pay the 1000 plus litre price regardless of the fact that they may have only ordered 500 litres. In addition to the above each member will also gain from WOPEC ordering in bulk to get the price reduced still further through buying in such a large quantity.

WOPEC has been organising the delivery of oil for its members for over 12 years and so far the price has been the same for all, but this cannot be guaranteed in the future. With WOPEC increasing the size of its catchment area there may be occasions when a good per litre oil price has been obtained from an oil distribution company that does not normally deliver to certain areas of Devon or Somerset. If this situation were to arise then a small surcharge may be incurred to members residing in those areas to cover the additional delivery expense.

Thank you for your ‘leap of faith’. We are obviously biased but we do not think you will be disappointed.

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