Are you getting all the fuel you are paying for?

OnanTheBarbarian

Come across this pic on Facebook today....

I'll certainly try to remember to squeeze just an initial litre in when I next fuel up to see if they are robbing you or not.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153319817108275&set=a.10151478501713275.597806.533613274&type=1

JustinR1979

Be more accurate to try it on say 10 litres.
Maybe anything above a multiple of 1 confuses some people.

pogofish

We are however getting our moneys worth out of this pic - There is already a thread going on this.

harveybobbles

Most pumps have a sticker saying "Min delivery 2 litres"

So I would imagine it will sort itself out at 2 litres.

Strider590

I've seen it and I think it's a photoshop, "like" farming.

enfield_freddy

edit:


due to ,,,,,,,,,, thinking


If you pump 1.0088 lt it's going to cost £1.25 but the display will only show 1.00 lt

thenudeone

What a non-story.

1.0049 litres @ 123.9p = 124.507p, which is rounded to 1.00 litres and 125p

(It isn't 1.0088 litres, which would show as 1.01 litres)

Aretnap

Already discussed here. Most likely it's just a rounding issue.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5115409

Why would you need to squeeze out a single litre to check you're not being robbed? You could just as easily (and more accurately) do the same calculation on 52.63 litres after you've filled up - you might just need a calculator. If that calculation's out by more than a penny or so then you have cause for complaint - if not it's just a matter of rounding to the nearest whole number (or possibly rounding up or down, if that's what the machines do).

motorguy

OnanTheBarbarian wrote: »

Come across this pic on Facebook today....

I'll certainly try to remember to squeeze just an initial litre in when I next fuel up to see if they are robbing you or not.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153319817108275&set=a.10151478501713275.597806.533613274&type=1

Well its on facebook so clearly it must be true.

Obviously theres a conspiracy between the petrol companies and the government to allow this practice to go on, whereby we're paying more for fuel than they are letting on.

I would say the pixies that operate the fuel pumps from the inside are all in on this, and probably getting a cut too.

I'm outraged! :mad:

OnanTheBarbarian

Well I tried this yesterday when I put some squirt in at Morrisons and it was bang on at 1 litre and also at 10 litres.

I'm sure you'll all sleep better, motorguy especially, knowing that.

Aretnap

I believe the "give a penny, take a penny" tray which you see on the counter of many petrol stations is there precisely so the staff have something to give the customers who complain that the pump shou,d have rounded their price down instead of up, and also the idiots who fly into a rage because the price clicked up by one penny when they slammed the nozzle back onto the pump.