Let me be the first to say BS, free ad

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Sorry, saw that word Rush. May 29th folks!

And then they wouldn't honor my free carwash that only expired a month ago and the clerk was rude when I asked for a seperate receipt for my lottery ticket. Thank god for consumerist where people understand my concerns.

justanotherfarkinfarker: Let me be the first to say BS, free ad

I've know stations where this happened. It was never intentional.

LarryDan43: And then they wouldn't honor my free carwash that only expired a month ago and the clerk was rude when I asked for a seperate receipt for my lottery ticket. Thank god for consumerist where people understand my concerns.

Why are you such an OCD freak?? freakin buy a can of vegemite and shut the fark up.

I'll say this,that gas was NOT worth the risk you were taking in that particular part of town alone. Not to mention the other cockroaches who came out to take advantage of somebody's mistake.

Technically that's illegal in some if not most states - which heavily regulate how much you can charge for gas.

They probably made money too.

KangTheMad: They probably made money too.

Gas stations don't make money on gas. They make money on selling snickers bars, big gulps, and firewood.

This reminds me of a similar story I heard within the past few years, except the station was asking anyone that took advantage of the mistake to come back in and pay the difference.

They actually make a pump that can price gas at something that ends in other than .9 cent (X+$0.009)?

I'd have thought they'd just save money and make the least significant digit a decal instead of circuitry.

Party like it's 1999....

Vlad_the_Inaner: They actually make a pump that can price gas at something that ends in other than .9 cent (X+$0.009)?

I'd have thought they'd just save money and make the least significant digit a decal instead of circuitry.

They want our trust apparently. sheesh

gingerjet: KangTheMad: They probably made money too.

Gas stations don't make money on gas. They make money on selling snickers bars, big gulps, and firewood.

Eh, they make money on gas. It's just an extremely small amount of money.

Isn't that the station where they hid the winning Superball ticket?

He made up for it in volume.

ThatDarkFellow: gingerjet: KangTheMad: They probably made money too.

Gas stations don't make money on gas. They make money on selling snickers bars, big gulps, and firewood.

Eh, they make money on gas. It's just an extremely small amount of money.

It was about a penny a gallon when I worked at a gas station. One day the owner picked up a fountain pop and explained, "this is where we make most of our money, It costs me 10 cents and I charge 99 cents for it".

Vlad_the_Inaner: They actually make a pump that can price gas at something that ends in other than .9 cent (X+$0.009)?

I'd have thought they'd just save money and make the least significant digit a decal instead of circuitry.

At the gas booth where I used to work, we could change every digit in the price including the 9/10th of a cent (but only for the price on the pump, the prices on the sign had the 9/10th painted on). One time I actually did leave the 9/10th at zero and we didn't catch it till our next price change. It wasn't really that big of a deal.

Happened to me a few years ago at an HEB just north of Austin. I went there specifically because it had an E85 pump. The road sign said E85 was $1.859, but the pump was $0.185. Nobody was flocking to it because it was E85 so it went mostly unnoticed.

Remember when a buck a gallon was the norm, not the exception?

Obama's America, folks. Gotta love it.

Retarded Colored Animal: Remember when a buck a gallon was the norm, not the exception?

Obama's America, folks. Gotta love it.

notsureifserious

Manager is going to lose his job.

mottsnil: I'll say this,that gas was NOT worth the risk you were taking in that particular part of town alone. Not to mention the other cockroaches who came out to take advantage of somebody's mistake.

Um, if you told me I might have to brave some angry folk to fill up my car for $16 instead of $60, I'd be on it in a heartbeat.

/I sound broke

Happened to me a few years ago locally.
One of those combo Shell/Burger king places was selling for 79 cents a gallon.
After filling up I went inside to pay and asked if everything was okay cause it was about $1.50 cheaper than it should have been.
The kid at the till said he didn't control the prices so he guessed so.

I called my wife to come fill up her van and didn't tell anyone else.

"I can save $30! I'll sit in line for hours and burn $20 worth of gas! Totally worth it!"

I never understand this kind of thing.

If it was a locally owned store, I would tell them about it before I started pumping.

If it was BP owned, I might be inclined to fill up, then get the truck and fill up again, while posting it on gas buddy.

/Fark you BP
//Billions in profits, but can't invest in some accident equipment.

Retarded Colored Animal: Remember when a buck a gallon was the norm, not the exception?

Obama's America, folks. Gotta love it.

I would have to agree.

When Bush left office, we were at a national average of $4.12 a gallon. The price of gas IMMEDIATELY dropped to an average of $1.61 when Obama took over. It STILL is NOT at the Bush high yet. Go look it up yourself.

/Facts suck when you try to be a dick troll

Kibbler: "I can save $30! I'll sit in line for hours and burn $20 worth of gas! Totally worth it!"

I never understand this kind of thing.

Idling for an hour uses approximately a gallon of gas. If you use $4/gallon as the standard for gas, you'd have to idle for 5 hours to burn $20 worth of gas. At that point I would certainly agree that doing so is nonsensical, but I highly doubt anyone is actually waiting in line for 5 hours to fill up their tank.

BummerDuck: When Bush left office, we were at a national average of $4.12 a gallon. The price of gas IMMEDIATELY dropped to an average of $1.61 when Obama took over. It STILL is NOT at the Bush high yet. Go look it up yourself.

According to this chart from GasBuddy, late Oct 2008, before the election, it was $2.36 and falling. Your $1.61 came in Dec, before Obama took office.
It has been (mostly) steadily rising ever since.

gingerjet: KangTheMad: They probably made money too.

Gas stations don't make money on gas. They make money on selling snickers bars, big gulps, and firewood.

So wouldn't be good business sense to sell your goods at a markup but offer a cent off per gallon for every buck spent in store?

Had this happen about a year ago at a Shell in the middle of nowhere. Can't remember the price, but it was less than a buck a gallon. Filled up, then conscience got the better of me so I told the manager when I went in to pay. She thanked me and asked if I had another vehicle I'd like to fill up before she corrected the price. Was about 2 hours from home or I would've had the wife bring her car out.

/CSB-ish

Vlad_the_Inaner: They actually make a pump that can price gas at something that ends in other than .9 cent (X+$0.009)?

I'd have thought they'd just save money and make the least significant digit a decal instead of circuitry.

That is probably how the $1.00 gas happened. X+ became X-

BummerDuck: Retarded Colored Animal: Remember when a buck a gallon was the norm, not the exception?

Obama's America, folks. Gotta love it.

I would have to agree.

When Bush left office, we were at a national average of $4.12 a gallon. The price of gas IMMEDIATELY dropped to an average of $1.61 when Obama took over. It STILL is NOT at the Bush high yet. Go look it up yourself.

/Facts suck when you try to be a dick troll

Any relation to the Dickwolves?

YouPeopleAreCrazy: BummerDuck: When Bush left office, we were at a national average of $4.12 a gallon. The price of gas IMMEDIATELY dropped to an average of $1.61 when Obama took over. It STILL is NOT at the Bush high yet. Go look it up yourself.

According to this chart from GasBuddy, late Oct 2008, before the election, it was $2.36 and falling. Your $1.61 came in Dec, before Obama took office.
It has been (mostly) steadily rising ever since.

Still, his main point that we haven't yet beaten Bush's record is sound. Although the idea of blaming gas prices on the president is questionable, at best.

Also, I like your login.

oh yeah.

Glendale: [ninjamonkey.us image 640x278]

Yippie-Ki-Yay, Mr. Falcon

I remember a time when $1.00/gallon gas would have been expensive...it wasn't that long ago either.

All part of the plan!

YouPeopleAreCrazy: BummerDuck: When Bush left office, we were at a national average of $4.12 a gallon. The price of gas IMMEDIATELY dropped to an average of $1.61 when Obama took over. It STILL is NOT at the Bush high yet. Go look it up yourself.

According to this chart from GasBuddy, late Oct 2008, before the election, it was $2.36 and falling. Your $1.61 came in Dec, before Obama took office.
It has been (mostly) steadily rising ever since.

Huh! Exactly when Bush checked out. :-)

Election was already over at that point. Everyone in the middle (including me) knew what the outcome was going to be. It was an election of the lesser evil with a twist. No sane person would want Palin in the presidency.

You sound like a bitter Social Republican.

This actually happened at the gas station where I worked back when I was still a big shot. The place was located off the main road in a fairly large town (80,000pop) and there was a line of cars stretching out of the parking lot and down the right lane of the road for about a 1/2 mile, as everyone was calling their friends/family to cash in on the mishap.

/csb

This happened back in 96 when I first opened my station ...It was actually my mistake, I was at lunch across the street at Manny's when my porter came in and told me to get back there. The line was around the block. Almost all cabs. We do make most of our money on coffee. But I also make good money on gas not to mention the CNG I have for enabled cabs. My profit margin is much better than a penny a gallon..heh. I own the property and the equipment..Plus the cab garage I lease out to Yellow next door...If you are a franchise and not a jobber than you really have no say in what the gas price is going to be. I've trampled all of my competition in the hood with the exception of the BP on State and Roosevelt and a Shell on Morgan, oh yeah a tiny little station off the ramp... He does not have much time left...Getting ready to get out of this business soon...

Worse happened at a gas station in Des Moines last week. a new clerk, who had only been trained once on setting the pump price and had only worked there a week, thought she set it at $3.90 but actually set it at $0.39 a gallon. It ran for hours and cost the station $24,000 according to news reports.

She was going to be transferred to another station in the chain, but quit out of shame.

Sounds like a fair price to me. It's sad that we have been conditioned to think this is a unreasonable price.

/Was in Kuwait a little over a year ago.
//Gas cost about 30 cents a gallon converting from dinar

The KCCI news story Link (new window)

I May Be Crazy But...: Also, I like your login.

And yours as well.

BummerDuck: Retarded Colored Animal: Remember when a buck a gallon was the norm, not the exception?

Obama's America, folks. Gotta love it.

I would have to agree.

When Bush left office, we were at a national average of $4.12 a gallon. The price of gas IMMEDIATELY dropped to an average of $1.61 when Obama took over. It STILL is NOT at the Bush high yet. Go look it up yourself.

/Facts suck when you try to be a dick troll

For most scholars, Jan 08 is the month that Bush left office It was $1.75 in Jan of 08.

BummerDuck: You sound like a bitter Social Republican.

No, just factual. "X happened after Bush left office". No, it was well on the downward slide even before the election, much less the inauguration. We don't have to make shiat up to make Bush look bad.

And a Democrat winning was a given. No Republican could have won, given the legacy of Bush the Lesser. Hillary, Obama, bald-pregnant-escaping from rehab Britney Spears would have won.