WARNING - Avoid Shell

peachyprice

Seriously? ........

Enfieldian

Emz11 wrote: »

i am disgusted by the treatment me and my mother received at a shell petrol station today and i will now be boycotting them and told them i would be posting on this forum and i suggest you do the same.

my mum filled up her car at a shell petrol station and then we both went inside to pay for the petrol. when inside we told them the pump number and tried to pay using a debit card. the cashier said "sorry we are not able to take credit card payments at the moment because the systems are broken". i explained we were using a DEBIT card not a credit card but he got huffy and said they werent able to take any card at all and that there were notices on all the pumps. i told him there were not notices on the pumps so went out to check we hadn't missed something.

all that was on the pump was a printed sheet of a4 paper saying "sorry, cash payments only" hardly enough of a warning that they dont take cards. also how does a big company like shell simply not be able to take cards, makes no sense! i teld him the sign was not adequate and that they should be warning people before they fill up but he tried to argue saying there was a sign up again. he told us we could use the cash machine on the forecort to withdraw cash and pay that way so we did in the end but were not happy.

i will be boycotting there petrol stations from now on and so will my 62 year old mother. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Thanks for that.

It cheered me up on an otherwise dull Easter weekend.

marliepanda

sillyvixen wrote: »

A4 printed sign on the pump stating "Cash Only" but could not been seen by either the op or their mother - makes you wonder if either one of them meets the driving standards with regards to vision.

Can't read that sorry. Please print it out A3 for me!

sillyvixen

marliepanda wrote: »

Can't read that sorry. Please print it out A3 for me!

Sorry, What did you say?

gik

C_Mababejive wrote: »

The sign probably means that they have..err...cashflow problems and now only want to take cash and indeed CAN only take cash. This is often the excuse given at certain ethnic restaurants.

Really? What certain ethnic restaurants are you talking about?

SimonSays

BigJockKnew wrote: »

I spend about £150 a month on petrol and because of this thread I will only buy my petrol from Shell from now on. on top of that I think I will switch to the more expensive V-Power option.

By starting this thread you have actually made Shell more money.......

I just went and tanked up with V-Power. Does this make me a bad person

pmduk

I just hope the OP doesn't treat road-signs with such disdain as well.

pulliptears

Emz11 wrote: »

he told us we could use the cash machine on the forecort to withdraw cash and pay that way so we did in the end but were not happy.

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

There are quite often ATM's at petrol stations. Couldn't you have got the money out and paid by cash?

Slightly amused that in a thread about not reading something that happened.
:rotfl:

Money-Saving-King

BigJockKnew wrote: »

I spend about £150 a month on petrol and because of this thread I will only buy my petrol from Shell from now on. on top of that I think I will switch to the more expensive V-Power option.

By starting this thread you have actually made Shell more money.......

Same, the second someone tells me to boycott something I just go out to buy from there as I make my own decisions and won't let some idiot on the Internet tell me what to do. I need my monthly petrol fill today, guess where I'll go!

Emz11 wrote: »

i will now be boycotting them and told them i would be posting on this forum and i suggest you do the same.
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Uh no!

Money-Saving-King

bod1467 wrote: »

Did the cash machine charge for withdrawals? (Many do at filling stations).

All I've come across don't.