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Apple Filling Stations

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  • 13-10-2007 12:53pm
    #1
    Ginagee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭


    Does anyone have an email or website of Apple Filling Stations....although the prices are the lowest, their pumps are the slowest.....and the clips on the pumps do not work, so I have already highlighted this to the staff weeks ago....but I dont think the message has been passed on....Thanks:confused:


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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,835 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Could be on purpose. I think most Apple Greens have a deli and other things, they get people to stop there with cheap petrol, advertise what's inside on the windows and stuff which people would have more time to look at/be tempted/get hungry, if the pump is going slow and they don't have to watch it like you would a fast one. Just a thought...


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    dahamsta
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    If the clips on the pumps don't work, they're not going to be able to investigate though, are they?


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    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,944 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    The clips on the pumps are against the law for petrol, theres are thread on here about it. And they usually disable them for diesel so as not to confuse themselves. No idea about flow rate, but is it running so slow as to negate the price difference. Can't see it taking too much longer to fill a tank.


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    miju
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    on a side note why do people Q for 5 minutes to get petrol at Tesco when the garage 30 seconds drive away is only 1 cent dearer??


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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,835 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    miju wrote: »
    on a side note why do people Q for 5 minutes to get petrol at Tesco when the garage 30 seconds drive away is only 1 cent dearer??

    Well I think if there's Queues for 5 minutes 30 seconds away because petrol is 1c cheaper, the owner of the other garage isn't the brightest. Although don't forget there's other stuff about buying from Tesco too, clubcard points and I think something about getting extra money off if you spend over €50 in Tesco before filling up or something?

    What are the "clips" on the pump?


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    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,944 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    cormie wrote: »
    What are the "clips" on the pump?

    They where/are a clip on the pump that allowed you to pump petrol without holding the handle. They is a little spring clip beside the lever that locks the lever open and then the back pressure would stop the petrol before it flowed out of your tank. They are still on the pumps but have been disabled, though I did see someone wedge their fuel cap into the pump handle to keep the flow going. They have them on pumps in the States and they are handy, but of course in our nanny state you can have nothing that a gob sh!te might hurt themselves with.


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    #8
    Cassiel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 346 ✭✭Cassiel


    email: info@applegreen.ie The slow pumps is not a deliberate ploy as I emailed them about the same issue with the Celbridge station. Pumps were running full tilt within a week. Is this a recently opened Apple station?


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