I ran out and went back to the shop where I got my last bottle. It was an orange. They said they won't take it and that I'd have to pay more for a blue bottle, I used to have a blue one, but you gave me an orange one. Nope go to the shop across the road from Chalong Tesco. On the way a see a truck full. I stop and ask them. No problem. They were from the shop across from Tesco. So why are the local shops not taking back the bottles they gave out now?

I have two blue bottles that I own. The house I moved into had an orange one. The shop wouldn't accept the orange one to swap when it was empty - that was a shop on Sai Yuan, just south of the junction with the Kata-Karon road, on the left side.

So I gave it back to the landlord and am using my own bottles.

The orange one was quite old and rusty, but not sure if that is the reason the shop didn't like it.

Edit:

When I lived in Phuket town I had an empty blue bottle but the shop made a big fuss over changing it because it wasn't from the same company as the blue gas bottles they had. But they did swap it in the end.

I guess there's more to this than meets the eye!

I have two blue bottles that I own. The house I moved into had an orange one. The shop wouldn't accept the orange one to swap when it was empty - that was a shop on Sai Yuan, just south of the junction with the Kata-Karon road, on the left side.

So I gave it back to the landlord and am using my own bottles.

The orange one was quite old and rusty, but not sure if that is the reason the shop didn't like it.

Edit:

When I lived in Phuket town I had an empty blue bottle but the shop made a big fuss over changing it because it wasn't from the same company as the blue gas bottles they had. But they did swap it in the end.

I guess there's more to this than meets the eye!

I guess so. I went to the shop you are talking about as well as the shop next to Jenny's Market where I got the orange bottle from. Neither one would exchange it. I know the orange bottles are older, possibly they are out of date? The one guy said he would have some problem with the police. I didn't get it. Your shop gave me this bottle and you won't exchange it now, because you only have the newer blue ones and now want to charge me more? More Thai logic...