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Customer Used a BP Visa Card
I admit, this might be judgemental, but this really rubbed me the wrong way. I work retail part-time and a rang up a customer who used her BP credit card. I've passed up on filling up at BP when they had gas 5 cents cheaper. I just felt some type of way that she used the card. If I had a BP card, I would have cancelled it.
Re: Customer Used a BP Visa Card
My parents have BP cards, and as far as I know they haven't canceled them. Actually, I don't think I know anyone who would've.
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If I had a BP card, I wouldn't cancel it and wouldn't think twice about using it.
I just spent a week in on the gulf auditing the temporary food service sites for the workers down there, and BP is truly doing everything in their power to stop the oil and make the situation right. What happened was a freak accident that has never happened before in the history of gulf drilling. No matter how careful you and how many scenarios you plan for, accidents still happen. There are thousands of BP workers on the gulf right now working day and night to fix the spill and clean up the damage. A terrible accident happened and BP is doing everything they can do right now.
I get where you are coming from but why would a person cancel a credit card and possibly lower their credit score due to now having a shorter credit history (if the card was the one they had the longest) or due to a change in their debt use ratio (because now they are utilizing more of the credit available to them).
I think that there have been mistakes made all around the spill not just on BP's side and there is enough blame to go around.
I personally wouldn't potentially damage my own credit score over it.
This I get and I forgot about the MM side of it. Plus what all of you said you were right. They were mistakes made on all sides and lets not forget how the media protrays things.
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What people don't understand about not buying BP gas is that not purchasing BP gas doesn't really hurt BP, it hurts the gas station owners. BP isn't going to "suffer" from a few people not buying their gas, but it could be enough to put the owner out of business.
My FI is handling a certain type of insurance claim (he's in oil/gas, etc. insurance) involving BP and he sees this from store owners quite a bit, especially in the area where we live (Houston).
I would be fine using BP gas, and using their credit card. I think canceling is silly.
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The problem is BP was not careful and I am not sure I would consider this a freak accident. It sounds like they cut a lot of corners and tried to get away with things. It sounds like they were lucky it did not happen sooner.
However I probably would not cancel a BP card if I had one.
I agree with all of this. But if I had a BP card I would probably not use that much anymore.
Ditto akg- there is an article in the NYT about this-
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/your-money/12money.html
BP will hardly "feel" a boycott of their stations, credit card, etc. They don't even own most of the BP stations in this country and selling gas at the pump is a minuscule fraction of their business.
Any gas you put in you car could have been "touched" by BP somewhere along the line, no matter where you buy it.
This. If there is any consequence for BP if customers cancel their cards, it's minuscule at best. I want to stuff the well with Tony Hayward, but I wouldn't think twice about someone with a BP card. The only way to kill BP is to use less oil.
I've heard this logic used often, but it's flawed. It's only valid if people boycott BP and STOP using gas. If they purchase it from other gas stations instead (like 99.9% of people who boycott BP will), then they are still supporing other locally owned gas stations. Just my two cents!
Nothing flawed about this logic. Yes, by buying you gas at the Chevron station (or whatever) next to BP you are still supporting a locally owned gas station but Mr and Mrs BP station does in deed lose money if you boycott their station and might be put out of business.
So yeah, your money goes from one locally owned business to another and that might be good or OK or whatever but don't fool yourself to think that your boycott is not in fact just making the people that own the BP gas station lose money. They are.
The problem, mrsbhk, is the fact that we have *seen* what happens when boycotting BP gas and not using their stations does to people. It will run the person out of business. Yes, you are giving money to another store, but the problem is that you are simply giving MORE money to another store that was doing just fine to begin with.
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