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stuntman:
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES LOVE THIS THIS TYPE OF THING!

carbore:
"But surely it should 'round up' based on when you release the trigger, not when you put it back on the pump"

No because you may press the trigger again and dispense another fraction of a pence. It will only round up when back on the pump possibly some time has passed, as it must "decide" that you have reached the end of the sale?

Just a guess.....

Devon-Rover:
The pump is told what it will charge to dispense at in purely a numerical form. Be it 99.9 or a round 1.00 a liter. No as you fill up watch the liters as you go, depending on how much per liter will show how different the pennies click over compared to the Ml on the indicator. No go slowly and you'll see for every n ML you put in the pump will put x pence on the display.  Now take for instance sake at work we are currently @ 94.9 pence a liter for Petrol. So if you have 30 pounds worth of Unleaded you will have 31.6122 liters of petrol dispensed. But crafty enough you can click the pump onto 31.62 liters of petrol. Now should you squeze the trigger a bit more then you still have 31.62 liters (the display isn't huge enough to have multiple decimal points) but the little extra go in will then put the price up to 30.01.

If you are feeling lucky you can try it. Put 19.98 in then very gently put a wee bit more in, the liters will be 21.05 a bit more and the liters go 21.06 the 19.99 comes up on the display, a bit more and you get 21.07 then 20.00 will appear. no if you can you could just round over to 21.08 liters but it won't be enough to put the cumulative amount up to 20.01.
Spend 10 minutes with a calculator dividing money amounts by the cost of fuel to see the full amount of liters you get.


Now i as you can guess work at a petrol station and mostly i'll let the penny go and just charge you the round amount. Go over by a few pence and i'll charge it. but it'll depend on the circumstances. Strangely enough having done a fair bit of filling up (we have an attended service should you want it) means that in the 14 months of working their i have only once done a .01 on the money and that was because i wasn't paying attention to the liters going in.


P.S We only make a few pence per liter on total sales of fuel now take in the overheads of staffing and maintaining the garage and we don't make a lot. So much that my boss has mentioned that should it get any less in the sales then he might not bother with the fuel side of things and just concentrate on the MOT and servicing. So i'll be out of a job. Not a great prospect in the todays economic climate.
Fact being as we are on this topic i'll say this. Now American Express offer these amazing rates for their customers with cashback. Now how can they afford to do this. Well they charge the operator an obscene amount to put it through the PDQ machine. So we don't allow American express cards. As about 4 people through our machine would wipe out the days profit.

So it's not all Rose's and champagne Selling petrol.

hairyasswelder:

--- Quote from: diggerdog36 on November 17, 2008, 11:37:13 ---
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!!

--- End quote ---

Now dont be silly  [-X [-X
I will put it in the charity box on the till.  Sounds patronising but I will put bits of change in them when buying brekky or bits and bobs, s'pose it adds up if we all do it  ;)

To add to the point 'devon rover' made, if it happens again get a reciept and calculator, most say how much ££'s and how many litres you got.  If it doesnt add up....... sue them  :lol: :lol:

diggerdog36:
That was my point, you wouldnt put it in the bin!!

Im a man of principal, oil/fuel companies can afford the loss. . . . . . . .I cant!

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