Oil Company RipOFF

dekor8tor

why is it that petrol companies advertise their petrol on the forcourt say 130.9p per litre yet when u put a litre in at the pump it says 131p am i missing something here or is that against trading standards? why dont they stop the .pence as there is no such coin and just round it up to the nearest penny. also why dont they intoduce 5,10,15,20 and 30 pound buttons on the pumps the pumps go that fast now a lot of people who want to put jut £20 end up putting £20.01 in instead imagine how many people do that in one day comments please

Kilty_2

What about when you put in enough for it to round down?

Is your life really that boring you need to analyse this that much?

rev_henry

Well we have had this discussion before. You're not getting ripped off. If you want 10 litres at 130.9p a litre you will be charged £13.09, not £13.10. If its in between pennies it gets rounded UP OR DOWN so you're just as likely to be charged 1p more as 1p less.

Your idea about buttons for certain amounts is good though; I've seen this in Spain once (where its all pump attended service, or was when I went), but they weren't actually using the buttons because they were in Pesetas and it had just switched to euros so it wouldn't have worked properly.

wealdroam

Maybe when you pay £1.31, perhaps you are getting £1.31's worth of fuel.

Is that a possibility?

If that is what's happening, then it is probably not appropriate to describe it as a 'ripoff', is it?

Livingthedream

dekor8tor wrote: »

also why dont they intoduce 5,10,15,20 and 30 pound buttons on the pumps the pumps go that fast now a lot of people who want to put jut £20 end up putting £20.01 in instead imagine how many people do that in one day comments please

Lol, that does annoy me too, nozzle trigger fully squeezed until around £9.50 slow flow up to £9.98, get it to a £10 just about to release the trigger and £10.01, Noooooooooooooooooo

oldagetraveller

Livingthedream wrote: »

Lol, that does annoy me too, nozzle trigger fully squeezed until around £9.50 slow flow up to £9.98, get it to a £10 just about to release the trigger and £10.01, Noooooooooooooooooo

Me too. Then try and round it to £10.10 only to achieve £10.11, then try and round it to £10.20 etc., etc., etc.! It must be some kind of "disorder" because it really isn't THAT important.:p

Gordon_Hose

No garage I go to makes me pay the 1p if I go to £40.01 if I'm paying cash...some even have a penny tray you can take a penny from.

fivetide

£10 of fuel wouldn't get you off most forecourts now!

Inactive

fivetide wrote: »

£10 of fuel wouldn't get you off most forecourts now!

Good point, and once you have used up your £10's worth, the next lot will cost you even more.

dzug1

Yet another poster debasing the word 'rip off'. We need a new word for things that really are.

And it's well within trading standards tolerances anyway. Don't know what they here but in one US state they are within 0.5% - which means between £29.85 and £30.15 would be acceptable prices for a nominal £30 worth of fuel.

alexlyne

you're better off giving the nozzle and pipe a good ole shake before replacing it... making sure there's no dip in the pipe for fuel to collect. How much is each drip worth? 0.1p?