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Topic: Double Check Your Gas Prices
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Kyle Watkins
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Posts: 185
From: Stuart, FL, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 10-06-2003 10:48 PM
From www.wpecnews12.com In west palm beach, Florida
Doulb Check yor gas prices
October 6, 2003 - 10:38PM DO YOU ALWAYS CHECK THE PRICES AT THE PUMP.. BEFORE FILLING UP? IT PAYS TO BE ALERT. CHECK OUT THE PRICES AT THIS ONE STATION.. ON THE CORNER OF CONGRESS AVENUE AND LAKE WORTH ROAD. MAURICE BOWLING FILLED HIS TRUCK UP A FEW DAYS AGO..AND GOT QUITE A SURPRISE. HE HAPPENED TO BE CLOSE TO THIS MOBIL STATION...NEEDED UNLEADED REGULAR...SO HE DROVE IN...STUCK THE NOZZLE IN AND FILLED UP. IT COST HIM 6 DOLLARS MORE THAN IT USUALLY DOES. AND HE KNEW SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT. "Well I think it's uh, in my opinion, I think it's kinda deceptive." HERE'S WHAT HE'S UPSET ABOUT. THE SIGN AT THE MOBIL SHOWS REGULAR UNLEADED IS 1.87 A GALLON.. SPECIAL IS 1.71..AND SUPER IS 1.82. IF YOU'RE IN A HURRY...AND YOU GLANCE AT IT...COMMON SENSE WOULD TELL YOU THAT REGULAR SHOULD BE THE CHEAPEST. BUT AT THIS STATION...REGULAR IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE...IT COSTS MORE THAN PREMIUM. "So I think they're just being deceptive figuring most people just put the nozzle in." "Pay for their fuel and leave and they're on their way." HE THINKS THE GUY WHO RUNS THE STATION IS PREYING ON FOLKS WHO ARE IN A HURRY TO GET GAS...SEE THE PRICE OF 1.71 AND FIGURE THAT'S THE PRICE FOR REGULAR UNLEADED. "Why are you charging more for regular than you are for the better grade of gasoline? Uh, we have lots of competition here. We have the Hess, Starvin' Marvin. Step Saver and we can't compete anymore. It's been real tough. We chose this strategy to help pay the rent." HE TOLD ME HIS MONTHLY RENT HAS DOUBLED...AND HE HAD TO FIND A WAY TO BRING IN MORE CASH. "For the people who are not paying attention and looking at the price before they grab the regular pump, they're paying a lot more than they need to aren't they? Yeah, it's a matter of... So aren't you taking advantage of people that way? Well they have a choice."
I think thsi is a bunck of crap and should not be allowd
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Don Bruechert
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Posts: 340
From: Manitowoc, WI, USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 10-25-2003 10:18 PM
Actually, I think this should be OK to do. I know one chain of gas stations in our town has been selling their regular and mid-grade for the same price on and off lately. I was going to ask why one of these days, but I don't buy the mid-grade anyway, even though it is the same price. I am assuming they want to get people used to buying the better gas and then they won't check the price anymore after a while and keep buying it out of habit.
Taco Bell had a phenomenally good bout with this maybe 10 years or so ago. They dropped their prices on many or their products by a considerable amount - like regular tacos for 49 cents, etc. People began flocking to Taco Bell and their products took off - long lines at the drive thru and everything. Then, if you paid attention, after a couple of months they started very slowly raising their prices back up so that now you are paying almost what they were before, but you are still going there on a semi-regular basis (if you eat that kind of stuff).
I don't think there is anything wrong with posting the prices on the sign and the pump. You can price your products any way you want (within the minimum markup laws). It would be fraud to have one price on the sign and charge a different price on the pump, and I notice most of the stations around here are very careful when changing their prices to change the sign first and then the pump when the prices go up, and the reverse when they go down, so that no one accuses them of charging more than is posted on their sign. I don't really think this is taking advantage of anyone. If you can't read a sign, or a pump, and make sure you are buying the right product that isn't the store's fault. My fault is that I am used to having the pump nozzles in the same order most of the time. Regular is usually at one end or the other, and it is usually the one closest to my door when I get out to fill up. I filled up with premium at a station one time because I thought I grabbed the nozzle for regular and I wasn't paying attention. I will always remember that now, and check first. Was it the station's fault that I was stupid and not paying attention? I don't think so! I also check to make sure the price on the pump matches the price on the sign, because I have been to a few gas stations in "the boonies" where they like to play games with the prices between the sign and the pump. When challenging the station attendants I have usually gotten "Gee, I'm sorry, Billy-Joe Jim-Bob must have forgotten to change the sign." I wonder how often that crap happens, and I wonder how many people notice.... THAT is wrong! If I look at the pump and see premium is cheaper than regular, then I guess I'm gonna fill up with premium today - it's on sale!
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