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Fuel rip off today
crazymac:
--- Quote from: jiffyman on November 16, 2008, 22:59:45 ---True Panda, and look at the profits the gits are making!!!
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The huge profits are the fuel companies not the forecourts. Most of these are purely tied to the fuel supplier, who dictates the price. They make about 2 to 3 PENCE a litre which just about pays the leccy bill. They make the money on the other goods they sell.
diggerdog36:
There was a garage at Leeming bar services that always used to charge 10-15p more than when you put the nozzle back. I complained to trading standards under the weights and measures act. About a month later he was closed down....I dont know if it was due to me or not!!
But there have been loads of times that the same has happened with the penny or two pence, it clicks over when you walk away.
As for the people who say its only a penny. If you get a penny in your change would you bin it?
I think not!!
landroverkeith:
--- Quote from: hairyasswelder on November 16, 2008, 20:17:00 ---Thought I was tight..... ITS A PENNY....... :-k :-k
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--- Quote from: TDi90 on November 16, 2008, 20:25:51 ---er, one pence guys... :shock: not really a big deal is it :shock: :-k
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Its a Pennys worth of Derv ive not had!!! why should I pay for sumthing ive not had ?? thats my point........
carbore:
I have a sensible (boring) thought.
Basically petrol (and everything else) is sold in round pence, so maybe as its a liquid when you pump in petrol the pump is dispensing that liquid, but not in round pence worths. Thefore when you hang up the nozzle it rounds up the amount delivered to the nearest whole pence.
If you fill a car you can get it to pump a bit wihout the price dial moving despite the liters dial moving.
This reminds me of the 1/4 dime on the salary bill issue in Superman 2 (or3) with Richard Prior. "We are dealing with a genius, no doubt he will lie low" just a Richard Prior turns up in a Ferrari.
V8MoneyPit:
But surely it should 'round up' based on when you release the trigger, not when you put it back on the pump?
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