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Year in review!
Jon
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Price updates: 1676
Station Photos: 93
Forum Posts: 357
2010-01-04 13:56:38

Happy new year from pumps.ie! We hope you have a great Christmas and new year and that the snow was more fun than trouble!

We have had a very busy year here at pumps.ie with 2,000 new members joining to help us achieve 76,000 price updates this year alone! Currently we have over 4,000 members and over 1,700 petrol stations listed. This year also saw the launch of our new iPhone application for checking an updating prices on the go! Thanks to Dan Burke for creating this excellent app!

I have just crunched the numbers and the top 3 price updaters for 2009 are:

mal with 7611 updates
JohnC1 with 6543 updates
jamesf with 3475 updates

These are truly incredible numbers of updates! I only did 435! Thanks to everyone for their efforts in keeping an eye on petrol prices all around Ireland! 2009 was an excellent year for Pumps.ie and we hope that 2010 will be even better!

I have listed the top 100 updaters below so you can see how you rank!


mal     7611
JohnC1     6543
jamesf     3475
kelly     3450
irishwanderer     3312
roosterman71     2458
connaugg     2282
zolw     2216
Chelsea1     2114
tarabuses     2063
cr     1955
fiestago     1600
fuelamend     1547
jfkcity     1158
doonkelly     1057
byrnefm     1028
emcees     925
barryof     865
rascal     796
Battapieman     778
tight_pocket     768
Ciaranpumps     732
The.Q     704
collijo     648
jim1     602
delly     538
noige     515
cowana     496
aidomac     494
greg104     455
jon     435
samster     417
wester     415
mcaul     367
denmar     333
eyeinthesky     324
haunted     316
TimothyCyril     304
davybuoy     300
Alert     292
Aidan     277
eljay     265
jdundon     258
peakoil     255
valueire.com     253
rpq123     246
foxie     243
josephmcg     241
powerpop     241
hoganteej     209
j0n     207
biffo     207
andrewmc     206
eamo82     202
Mec     200
vdub1     191
davidgerry     187
gallery27     187
lawyer     182
karlachameleon     177
hollywood1     175
Fiorsceil     173
polishman     172
bdeithrick     164
oleg     161
dddddave     140
Station Owner     136
Leinsterman     130
catlover     125
thekid     125
mt64     123
BarginHunter     123
tdnolan     121
enfield     121
dazzler88     120
fuelking     119
Louise_11     117
ace     115
Tony1961     111
Markies200     111
spike     111
Trex     107
David Mc     107
lobo.tommy     106
BOCO     106
pajor     104
s4avant     101
RAF     99
BigEnd     99
Teester     98
genie     98
john@renley.ie     98
wilton     97
tinaihi     96
markmccaughey     95
thedane     95
wexman     94
paulconnors     91
ronancooney     90
approveddriving     83



The.Q
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Price updates: 1055
Station Photos: 9
Forum Posts: 31
2010-01-05 12:03:40

22nd place!  In your face, the remaining 78 people!!  Only messing!  Happy New year to you all, from the still snow-bound County Sligo.  I haven't been able to turn right out of my drive way since the Saturday before Christmas because of poor road conditions, but I'm not complaining (probalby cos nobody will listen!)


jon
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Price updates: 1676
Station Photos: 93
Forum Posts: 357
2010-01-05 12:20:50

Well you put me to shame!


broken alloy
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Price updates: 7
Station Photos: 0
Forum Posts: 1
2010-01-05 15:27:59

are we expecting a rise in petrol prices soon?


mal
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Price updates: 31184
Station Photos: 186
Forum Posts: 16
2010-01-05 22:06:02

I cant believe I made 7,611 updates! Happy New Year to everyone on Pumps.ie


jon
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Price updates: 1676
Station Photos: 93
Forum Posts: 357
2010-01-06 10:48:54

Neither can I! Thanks for the updates Mal! We need a trophy icon or something! ;)


mal
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Price updates: 31184
Station Photos: 186
Forum Posts: 16
2010-01-06 13:40:04

Gold, Silver and Bronze medals either!!


wester
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Price updates: 726
Station Photos: 0
Forum Posts: 3
2010-01-13 23:49:56

Hope to get south of the border and updating for 2010 soon.

I notice that the best national petrol price for the last week was from someone posting at 03.12am who still has a single update to their name. Can these dubious items not be verified, and deleted sooner?

Wester


jamesf
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Price updates: 6060
Station Photos: 46
Forum Posts: 9
2010-01-30 16:15:48

Have to agree Wester. I noticed some really low diesel prices there a few weeks back and over Christmas (where the No. 1 spot had a price of around €1.00 while the next best in the bunch were at €1.08+). The station was in Louth, I think, so I couldn't really go to check.

That said, in my local area there is someone in Newbridge (connected possibly to one of the two Petrol Stations, Fraser Oil or Topaz, in the centre of Town) who puts up dubious prices; just to get on the leader board me thinks. Obviously if I see a fuel price that's 6 to 10 cent per litre better than anyone else around I'm going to make a beeline for it! But, when I get there they're the same price as the other stations. Yet, Fraser Oil in Newbridge is actually usually the best in this area! So why enhance the stats?

Newbridge is a good place for fuel - lots of healthy competition but there are some eejits who like to have "fun" with this open price entry forum. I email Jon whenever I spot these dubious prices and then swing by the stations to confirm the said dubious prices. And then correct them myself...

Vigilance by us regulars Wester is prob the only way to keep these dubious ones out...

jamesf


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