Fuel Prices Displayed at pumps

Fedupagain

How can all the fuel companies get away with displaying an incorrect price at the pumps?

Each time I buy locally the fuel price is £1.xx9 and they show at the pumps and on the display boards a price of £1.xx. i.e. they are rounding 0.009 down rather than up as they should. if you buy 60 litres that 60p a time that they obtained extra over the asking price.

I thought you were supposed to charge the advertised price??

Bah humbug

maninthestreet

So you want to pay MORE for your fuel than what you were charged??

Fedupagain

Sorry I obviously didn't make myself clear - they are charging more at the till than they advertise at the pump. I think this is wrong and don't understand why they all get away with it

LittleMissAspie

I was just talking about this yesterday with my boyfriend. What if you buy a single litre of petrol? How do you pay 145.9p? Maybe they have a minimum amount you can buy, but if you buy 25 litres that is £36 and 47.5p, we don't have half pennies any more!

Fedupagain

I bought 40 litres at £55.57 which works out at £1.38925 per litre but the display board advertised £1.38 per litre which should have worked out at £55.20 and when you are filling up on a regular basis that adds up.

Hammyman

Do you complain as you squeeze the trigger slowly as you approach a set cash amount you want,fuel comes out but the price doesn't rise to the next penny?

Hammyman

Fedupagain wrote: »

I bought 40 litres at £55.57 which works out at £1.38925 per litre but the display board advertised £1.38 per litre which should have worked out at £55.20 and when you are filling up on a regular basis that adds up.

As you've decided to go to 5 decimal places, did you but 40.00000 litres or 40.00999 litres? 40.00999 litres would display as 40.00 litres on the pump. Those 999 hundredth thousands of a litre add up when you are filling up on a regular basis.

If you don't like it, go make your own fuel.

Fedupagain

You make a fair point Hammyman with regards the fuel indicator

I just don't understand why the display boards do not advertise the correct price. From my albeit limited retail experience you round up when the value is over 0.005 surely?

rev_henry

Are you talking about an old fashioned petrol station without enough space on the boards to put the .9p now that we're over £1 a litre?

alexlyne

rev_henry wrote: »

Are you talking about an old fashioned petrol station without enough space on the boards to put the .9p now that we're over £1 a litre?

This ^, though if they are pedantic enough to display £1.38, then they would surely be better of removing the '£', then they could display an extra digit on the end. And perhaps price in pence, like 99.9% (or is it just 99%) of filling stations.
So I guess "all the fuel companies" is actually just one.

To be fair, I really don't see why we are using fractional pennies any more. Perhaps it was a good way to undercut other forecourts in 1985, but these days you rarely see anything other than a trailing 9.

Oh, and the price you pay is what is on the pump, not on the display boards. If that is incorrect then I guess you'd have a case.

@LittleMissAspie: there's a minimum amount you can buy. Though it's pretty low. They will round the amount to the nearest penny.
It does occur in other areas of commerce too.

Hintza

Thought we already had this subject this month? Do the forum rules not state that this subject may only be brought up on a quarterly basis?