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MotorMouth Pty Ltd is committed to helping Australian motorists get a better deal on fuel by providing them with easily accessible information on fuel prices.

Our aim is to alleviate motorists’ frustrations with fuel price variations by providing greater visibility of fuel prices to the community. The prices we display are already appearing on the pumps and price boards at individual service stations.

MotorMouth is part of the Informed Sources group of companies, a family owned private company. Informed Sources currently reports more than 7000 fuel prices each day across Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth to provide motorists with the cheapest fuel prices in their local area.

MotorMouth was formed in July 2000 in response to the demand by Australian motorists for information on the fluctuating prices of unleaded petrol.

MotorMouth is committed to providing accurate and reliable data.

MotorMouth maintains its independence from all oil companies and petrol stations, with its core objective being to provide information to consumers so they can make an informed decision on petrol purchasing.

Our on-line research, created to establish consumer views and attitudes on petrol pricing, showed that 87% of MotorMouth’s consumers have changed their petrol purchasing habits as a consequence of using MotorMouth.

How is the information gathered?

MotorMouth currently sources fuel pricing data using three methods:

  • manually collected by our drivers
  • for Perth using prices sourced from the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection
  • direct from service station site operators who input their prices using our online service www.mypriceboard.com

MotorMouth manually collected data is sourced from Informed Sources, with a team of people employed by the company to drive around assigned metropolitan regions (except for Perth) recording the prices of petrol displayed on the price-boards that are out the front of service stations. Price collections take place twice daily from Monday to Saturday (in the morning and afternoon) and once-daily on Sundays. The collected prices are then sent automatically into the MotorMouth database where the information is collated and processed.

The second source of data relates to Perth only. This data is sourced from the W.A. Government Department of Consumer and Employment Protection. The Department also displays fuel pricing on their website for Perth metro and selected country areas. Click here to visit the Department's website.

myPriceboard is the latest addition to our price collection methods. This service was launched on 9 November 2008 and will play an increasing role in expanding the prices displayed by MotorMouth as well as extending into non metropolitan areas. With myPriceboard, any service station in Australia can post their fuel prices directly onto MotorMouth. We use strict criteria to ensure operators enter accurate fuel prices.

MotorMouth provides this information via the MotorMouth web site as well as through the MotorMouth Partner Network, which includes iconic organisations such as Google, RACQ, RACV, NRMA, carsguide, IGA Supermarkets, Vodafone and Telstra.

Registered MotorMouth users can receive free email alerts as well as SMS messages for a small fee.

Future plans

The MotorMouth community now totals over 400,000 Australians, with each of them saving time and money by finding the best fuel prices in their local area.

With the introduction of the www.mypriceboard.com, any service station in Australia can make their prices available to the public in both metropolitan and regional areas.

We will continue to work with partner organisations so that Australians can access this information when and how they want it, whether that is at home or out on the road.

MotorMouth is committed to increasing the transparency of fuel prices for motorists across Australia.

 


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