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Offline Mace

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Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« on: March 29, 2012, 10:52:26 AM »
Where do you get your cheap Gas bottle refills?

Me, there is a car wash at the intersection of Raleigh Road and Van Ness Avenue, Maribryrnong, near Highpoint Shopping Centre. Just up from the Anglers Tavern  ;D

 They currently charge $22 for a 8.5/9kg bottle.

Long way from home, but close to where the daughter lives.

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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2012, 10:58:36 AM »
Landscape supplies place in Salamander Bay sells by weight ie they weigh your gas bottle before and after so you only pay for what you use. These places that charge you for an entire fill regardless of how much you use are just ripping people off (IMO).
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Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2012, 11:09:42 AM »
Everything we consume, water, gas, electricity etc we pay for what we use but not LPG gas for bottles?Yet LPG for car is per litre?Definitely getting shafted and have been for sometime.
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2012, 11:17:50 AM »
Bunnings are pretty cheap just make sure you use all the gas before changing them  ;D
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2012, 11:20:12 AM »
Do Bunnings wiegh the Gas bottle or just charge a standard fee?
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2012, 12:08:01 PM »
Standard fee down here.

Everywhere in the Illawarra I've found just charges a standard fee.  Love to find one that doesn't
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2012, 02:16:07 PM »
Ray Outdoors: $19/8.5kg
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2012, 06:40:25 PM »
$20 for 9kg @ MOGAS (servo) on Torrens Rd Kilkenny/Challa Gdns (Adelaide)
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2012, 07:18:59 PM »
Just paid $22.50 for 9kg swap-n-go @ Bunnings in Box Hill South (not sure how much the price varies between stores).

Saw an ad for Masters ... $19.95. There's a Masters currently being built right beside the Box Hill South Bunnings.
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Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2012, 07:23:43 PM »
I think it is better to have at least two bottles and rotate them. Always have a full one at hand so you can drain the other.

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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2012, 07:45:56 PM »
i get mine from rockdale Syd  most of the servo charge 17.00 dollars
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2012, 07:48:33 PM »
$15 for 9kg at Rays Lakehaven.
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2012, 10:38:09 PM »
I paid $14.95 for a 4.5kg today after looking at a few south of brissie. That was the cheapest price i found. I paid $25 for my 4.5kg last year at my local shop.
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« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2012, 10:42:34 AM »
I just rang around and am amazed by the variability in pricing :

Joes BBQs Refill @ Collaroy - $45!?
Caltex 'Swap'n'Go' - $35
Bunnings Swap - $21.95

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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2012, 12:40:52 PM »
Drove past a servo in Penrith which had 9kg gas refill for $14.95
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2012, 01:07:00 PM »
$21.95/8.5Kg exchange at Bunnings Palmerston NT this morning.

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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2012, 01:24:30 PM »
BCF for ~<$20.

I understand why places don't do refills. It takes ages and when one factors in the labour and the cost of the gas there cannot be much margin it. Let's support those places though, because Swap n Go is a ripoff.
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2012, 02:10:18 PM »
I agree that swap n go is a ripoff, but when the price of getting your own bottle refilled is more than twice the price of Bunnings' version of Swap n Go, they have priced me out of the market :-)
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2012, 03:03:09 PM »
I got stung only last week.

Normally pay $16.00 for a 4.5Kg refill. Not great I know but we are a little limited out here. Went to a different place the other day. "...just make it 20 bucks mate" he said!!!! $20 bucks??? Who's doing who the favour here? "I dont want to buy a new bottle mate...just the gas!"

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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2012, 03:43:31 PM »
Quote from: Paul (SA) on March 29, 2012, 07:23:43 PM
I think it is better to have at least two bottles and rotate them. Always have a full one at hand so you can drain the other.


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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2012, 04:03:55 PM »
Quote from: 1HDT on June 29, 2012, 03:03:09 PM
I got stung only last week.

Normally pay $16.00 for a 4.5Kg refill. Not great I know but we are a little limited out here. Went to a different place the other day. "...just make it 20 bucks mate" he said!!!! $20 bucks??? Who's doing who the favour here? "I dont want to buy a new bottle mate...just the gas!"

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Let me know when you need a refill I do em myself at work.  I think you are close by yeah?
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2012, 05:00:21 PM »
my shop at rockdale has put his price up to 17 for 9kg
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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #22 on: June 29, 2012, 05:59:02 PM »
paid $19.80 for a 8.5kg swap at Bunnings the other day.... I always have 2 bottles sitting around ready to go and I rotate them with my BBQ and Camper......
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« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2012, 02:03:14 PM »
I decant my 9 kg bottle into the 4.5, 3, 2 and 1 kg bottle's before refilling the 9 kg bottle. Gone are the days of weighing bottles and paying for what you get. If I take a half full 9 kg bottle in for filling, I get charged for filling an empty bottle.  However the price for filling a 4.5 kg bottle is more than half the cost for filling a 9 kg bottle!$@#$!#

My bottles are still within testing dates.

I took a swap and go bottle that I had at one point in time to Mitre 10 for refilling, and was told they wouldn't fill it as it was out of date.

There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of refilling locations to gouge on prices for refilling. In Adelaide now you will not get any change out of $30 for a swap and go type bottle swap over, surely it must have scales of economies to make it cheaper to swap over, rather than taking someone away from the till at the petrol station to fill your bottle for you. And Mitre 10 are not far behind with refilling a 9 kg bottle, $25 dollars the last time I went there.

My point here is, regardless of whether it is illegal or not to fill my own bottles, I will, using common sense, continue to decant my own bottles. I am not in the habit of giving money away to greedy parties who do not have my best interests in mind.

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Re: Cheap Gas Bottle Refills.
« Reply #24 on: July 01, 2012, 06:05:09 PM »
the "fuel express" no name servo on the corner of Stephens and waverley rd, vic will fill a 9kg for $18.95.. the notting hill bunnings wanted $28 for a swapper.

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