A Deeply Disappointing Experience with Esso Card / WEX
I have been a customer of the Esso Card (WEX fuel card) for some time, but my overall experience has been extremely disappointing.
From the beginning, I used the card very little, mainly because it simply wasn’t competitive compared to other fuel cards like Tamoil and Q8. Top-ups with credit card were not free, there were no meaningful incentives or discounts linked to the amount loaded, and in my area the Esso fuel price was often higher than at other stations. In short, it was a card I kept only for emergencies, when there was no other option to avoid running out of fuel.
Despite this limited usage, I was repeatedly contacted by phone and email by their agents with insistently repeated requests for feedback. I gave my feedback several times, always saying more or less the same things:
• make credit card top-ups free, as competitors do;
• introduce real discounts based on the amount topped up, like Tamoil and Q8;
• create a simple, dedicated app to manage the card;
• stop investing in pushy sales calls that add no value and instead improve the actual conditions of the service.
However, I never had the impression that my feedback (or that of other customers) was really taken into account. The same questions kept coming back, as if nobody had read or understood my answers.
Then, quite suddenly, I received a communication that my cards would be cancelled due to inactivity. When I tried to log in to the platform to check my account and any remaining balance, I couldn’t access it. The password reset function did not work (no email ever arrived), and when I wrote to customer service I received no reply at all.
In conclusion, my experience with the Esso Card / WEX service has been a total disappointment: an uncompetitive product, intrusive and repetitive contact from agents, ignored feedback, poor digital tools and, finally, unilateral card cancellation followed by technical issues and zero customer support. Based on this, I cannot recommend this service.
19 novembre 2025
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