Some gas stations charging more for less

[BIGDANIEL]

For those of you who haven't seen this yet.

 

 

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5220422

[MRM3T]

eh.....

[Chili327]

Spy Gadgets for the Home..!?

[Johnson30]

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[DK_Deadly_Intent]

these pumps should be checked more often. when they find so many problems, the regulating of these places should increase. >

[Chaka]

ya my car only holds 14.5 gallons and i put 15 .8 in it last time i filled up.I went in and told the manager wtf.he just gave me some bs number to call.

[-Rooster-]

Sorry but here I go,

 

 

In NY state, We are checked and calibrated every year. If someone knew what they were doing though, They could "adjust" the pump to give less for an amount.

 

We have pumps that give out more gas than they should if you pump at a slow speed. But this is fine because we as a "retailer" are losing out.

 

We as a "retailer" mark up our gas (differs from place to place) at $.10/GAL. If you use a credit/debit card, We get charged $.08 for each transaction and 3% of that transaction.

 

If you pump $51.72 in gas and use a card. that is 12 gallons of gas. We marked up $.10 a gallon. So we make $1.20. But the credit card charges us $1.55 plus the $.08 transaction fee totalling $1.63 in cost of using that card.

 

Thats a loss of $.43 on that one transaction. But can be better than a bad check that no one will do anything about without charging you way more than the check is worth.

 

Not to mention the cost of updating our mechanical pumps a second time (the first making them go over 2.99/gallon) To make them able to charge over 3.99/gallon. The new computer cost us $500 each pump and $500 to install them all.

 

Then customers misreading the new pump design (because the decimal has moved over to allow more digits) and not having the money for the gas they pump. Thinking they bought $5.00 in gas when they got $50.00 and think the pumps must have been going slow.

 

 

So just remember that the next time you feel ripped off. It is not the retailer to be blaming. We almost didn't continue selling gas after it hit above $3.99 but realize that our business would suffer too much and had to keep losing to keep living!

 

Our 87 octane is tested and is constantly 91 octane and our 93 octane is usually 95 or higher. This is acceptable but is not acceptable in the reverse. This is also something to remember.

 

 

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[BIGDANIEL]

I dont think anyone disagrees with gas stations raising rates on credit card purchases. No one expects business owners to lose money on behalf of the consumers.

 

The problem highlighted in the story was that many gas stations were doing this and not telling the consumer about it.

 

Many gas stations were also adjusting, although many said it was accidental, their pumps to purposely give less than they were supposed to.

 

 

[CDBS14]

GET A HYBRID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[-Rooster-]

I dont see how they can say it is illegal to raise your gas price more than once a day. That is a crock of shit to me. If I want to have a sale on my gas for a few slow hours...that is perfectly fine to do. Im not sure what state that was, but they are wack yo!

 

 

 

 

[HippieChik]

Snake Doctor ]

I dont think anyone disagrees with gas stations raising rates on credit card purchases.

 

OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT IT'S ILLEGAL!!!

[BigMoneyNacku]

HippieChik ]

Snake Doctor ]

I dont think anyone disagrees with gas stations raising rates on credit card purchases.

 

OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT IT'S ILLEGAL!!!

 

No it's not. I charge my customers extra to use CC's. The rates they charge us to process CC payments is ridiculous, so we pass it on to our customers. Perfectly legal. Discover and AMX are the worst for crazy processing fee's.

[Pathogen-]

from what i understand, the stations make their profits from periferals like snacks and such

[BIGDANIEL]

HippieChik ]

Snake Doctor ]

I dont think anyone disagrees with gas stations raising rates on credit card purchases.

 

OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT IT'S ILLEGAL!!!

 

Huh? Hows that illegal?

 

Passing on costs incurred to do business is part of running a business.

[-Rooster-]

Pathogen- ]

from what i understand, the stations make their profits from periferals like snacks and such

 

If we broke even it would be one thing. But gas is a huge loss to a company and should be looked at as a very gracious convienient.

 

(Unless you are a a huge corporation that has multiple stations that may be able to get fuel at a great discount. But then...they usually are in the oil business anyways. )