Oil

[bobquasit]

I need to find us a new heating oil company. As I've mentioned before, Petro screwed us royally a few months ago. Now it's time for a new contract, and I won't go with them again. Petro sucks.

We bought our furnace through them, and it has a lifetime warranty. I'm guessing that we'll need to arrange maintainance through our new oil company, but repairs should be covered by Petro. That complicates things.

Anyway, I've started Googling for heating oil, and I've talked to one company. The problem is that the terms are kind of confusing. Has anyone else had to deal with this sort of thing? Anyone know a good oil company that delivers in northern Rhode Island?

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[oldwolf.livejournal.com]

Sears. Our furnace lasted +35yrs before it was replaced.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Our furnace is new and guaranteed for life - our life, that is. Does Sears deliver heating oil? I'd rather not do business with them if I can help it. Sears has screwed me over several times in the past (car repairs, credit card, etc.), so I kind of hate them. They almost killed me, no lie! :D

[oldwolf.livejournal.com]

No, I meant going gas.

Huh??? We've had nothing but great service from them. My dad and I use to work for them, and we still shop there and buy their Kenmore and Craftsman lines.

Killed you???

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Going to natural gas would cost us too much.

Sears screwed us royally on our credit card. They were charging us 24% or 29%.

As for nearly killing me, it's a long story. I brought my car in for brake work. They left air in the system, so on my way home I discovered that I had virtually NO brakes.

Rather than offering me a tow so I could come back safely to have the air purged, they told me to drive back in a day or two later. When I picked up my car in the parking lot, supposedly fixed, the muffler had been detatched and was literally lying on the ground. I told them that I certainly hadn't brought the car IN that way, and they accused me of trying to "steal" a free repair. They wired the muffler to the undercarriage without connecting it.

Yeah. I hate Sears.

[graceysbane.livejournal.com]

Try Carter Brothers Oil out of Burriville. My friend's boyfriend is one of the Carter boys, and they are pretty good price wise and all.

Petro can still do your maintenance if you want them to. Just because you don't have a contract with them shouldn't be a problem since you have the warranty.

Now...what terms are confusing you?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! That helps a lot. I'll look over the terms and see what I can figure out.

I just want a company that has a decent price, a budget plan so we don't get killed in winter when oil prices go up, and that won't screw us over the way that Petro did.

Teri wants to stick with Petro because it's less of a hassle, but I just don't trust them any more. Secretly taking us off the budget plan and then hitting us with a $1000-plus bill was absolutely unforgivable!

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Well it used to be that oil companies made a fair amount of profit out of service contracts to do the annual maintenance on burners. Once upon a time the contracts for such and maintaining was where all the profit was (back when the price of oil was low). I don't know what the situation is these days, I last worked in a home heating related company in the very early 80s, so things have changed a lot.

(I worked at an oil company after high school, working in the service department. Hired because they were going to computerize the operation... and then they didn't and eventually were sold out to a bigger regional company who closed their office.

I later worked for a Wholesaler that did parts supply to the industry in our state... a bad gig in the end as it was a 'family business' where they wanted to not keep me but use me to teach their dropout daughter to work with their 'new fangled' computers that I went to college for.