Higham Oil Group

Traditionally oil buying groups ask members how many litres they'd like to order.   This works well but it does have a drawback.

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Advantage: You will know how many litres you will be receiving.

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Disadvantage: You don't know how much it is going to cost you until the best quote has been obtained.  

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A second and maybe unique method of placing an oil order is to specify how much you want to spend. 

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Advantage: You know that whatever happens to the price of oil over the next few days or weeks, your bill will not be more than what you specified when you placed your order. 

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Disadvantage: Placing an order this way means that you don't know how many litres you will be receiving.

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Choosing what way to order is a personal thing.  If you know that over the course of a year you will use 1000 litres then ordering by 'number of litres' would probably be the better method for you.  If you want to put a cap on how much you spend then ordering by money would be best.  You can keep an eye on your finances and know how much is being spent on oil.  Bear in mind that suppliers don't deliver quantities less than 500 litres so use the sliding calculator below to make sure you don't order below this minimum.

 

One last point to make is that if you order by money, come the day we ring around for the cheapest quotes and then calculate how many litres you can get for your amount of money, the number of litres will be rounded down to the nearest 25 litres.  E.g. oil is 48p per litre and you order £500 worth.  By the time you take VAT into account you can buy 992 litres of oil.  Suppliers don't deliver to this accuracy so we'd order for you 975 litres making a total cost of £491.40.

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The tool below will give you an idea how many litres you could receive using the UKs average price per litre.