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Subject Topic: Getting money back off gas bottles? Post Reply Post New Topic
27/6/2006 at 7:55am
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Hi

I have several butane gas bottles in my garage aswell as several on my van.

Anyway, tha plan is to trade them and get 2 of the new lightweight bp ones, plus adaptors.

Due to cost of the outlay, goes anyone know if i can get a refund on these non used butane bottles as i know when you buy a gas bottle, you always pay a deposit for the bottle.

Any ideas?

Scott

 



27/6/2006 at 8:01am
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Hi Scott,
The "deposit" is cleverley actually a hire agreement, which has a sliding scale of value.
First, there is no return value on unused gas.
Second, there is no deposit return without the "rental" agreement and even then after 3 years (I think) there is no return value for the cylinder.

I'm afraid that the odds are stacked firmly in Calor's favour!
Mike


27/6/2006 at 11:04am
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Hi Scott,

We thought that we could do the same when we were changing from our trailer tent to our caravan. We have a large bottle that we wanted to swap for 2 smaller bottles. My OH took them to Tesco and was told that we would have to take out 2 new contracts for the smaller bottles. I think it was something like £30 ea?

I ended up getting 2 smaller ones from the Friday Ad for £10 and the large one will be sold with the trailer tent.



27/6/2006 at 11:23am
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Some places like tool hire shops will swap big for small or vice versa as we did that once.  Quite a while ago so not sure if calor still allow it. 

Try local tip ours has a few down there, just see if you can swap your large for small.



27/6/2006 at 12:05pm
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I think you need to have the original hire agreement to get your deposit back.

I've often swapped bottles for different sizes and type when going for a refill.



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27/6/2006 at 1:50pm
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sounds like a win win situation for calor.


27/6/2006 at 9:11pm
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If you want a gas bottle the best way without having to pay a "deposit" is the local car boot sale. That is where we have got our last ones from and the cost us about four quid each. Rob.


27/6/2006 at 9:16pm
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Hi, I have swapped two large bottles for 7kg ones this week at a calor depot, They told me it's no problem swapping between sizes all you need is a empty bottle .

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28/6/2006 at 9:45pm
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major problems last week.the gas ran out.i knew our gas bottle was gogas and there was no way the warden would change for a calor bottle.he was very good though he rang round and found a dealer in gogas,it was only 5 miles away.SO if you can get an empty bottle make sure its a calor one.he exchanged it for a shell gas bottle,when empty the problem starts again.the gogas dealer also sold calor gas.[:o)][:o)][:o)]

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28/6/2006 at 11:38pm
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Quote: Originally posted by rabb_uk on 27/6/2006
Hi, I have swapped two large bottles for 7kg ones this week at a calor depot, They told me it's no problem swapping between sizes all you need is a empty bottle .
I had a problem, both small ones were empty and the garage had run out of that size. After a lot of discussion and as they know me they let me have a larger bottle on the proviso I swap it back for a smaller one when it's empty!


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29/6/2006 at 1:21pm
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Watch out when buying from a boot sale, I saw some on offer a few weeks ago - in sizes that Calor no longer do, they must have been yonks old!!

We had to change our bottles recently when we got the new van, but I dont think we were charged for it, we just bought the bigger bottle.  Not sure if they still charge the "deposit".   Although I do know in the 30 odd years we've been using, buying and exhanging Calor bottles - we've never yet had any form of refund from them at all.

Jenny



29/6/2006 at 2:24pm
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29/6/2006 at 7:12pm
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I sell calor, and there is no problem swopping one size for another when you buy your refil, your contract is for a bottle not the size, you can go from a 7kg to a 47kg all you are buying is the gas in it

Ken



29/6/2006 at 8:16pm
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the morrisons station near me has a little price chart on the counter for the refills etc, suprisingly the deposit/hire/whatever is the same no matter what size bottle it is, just differant between, butane, propane and patiogas, so you should be able to swap sizes


29/6/2006 at 10:11pm
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 sell calor, and there is no problem swopping one size for another when you buy your refil, your contract is for a bottle not the size, you can go from a 7kg to a 47kg all you are buying is the gas in it

not being silly ken can i swop a 47kg for a 7kg a friend moving house says he has a large empty bottle for free?it will save my embarrassment when i go to change it.ta[:o)]



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