Easygas offers €25 for returned gas cylinders

Gas company Easygas pledged to give consumers €25 for every reusable gas cylinder they returned even if they did not have a receipt.

Easygas described statements by rival company Liquigas not to refund the deposit without a receipt as “unfair and dishonest” and argued that the deposits taken were equivalent to or in excess of the price of a cylinder. Thus, it added, if a cylinder was lost, the company owning the cylinder would not suffer financial pre­judice because it would have collected the cost of the cylinder from the very start.

“Easygas declares that, since it too takes a deposit on each of its cylinders that is equivalent to its cost, its clients can transfer, for a price, any Easygas cylinder as they wish,” it said.