Cheap diesel!

Max_Damage

Someone's head will roll because of this!



It's in Inchicore by the way!

Alanstrainor

Surely it'll be charged at 1.44 on the pump?!?

Max Power1

I can still remember (2-4 years ago) when it was that price

Max Power1

Max Power1 wrote: »

I can still remember (2-4 years ago) when it was that price

Bit more than 4 years surely.

unkel

RoverJames wrote: »

Bit more than 4 years surely.

As recent as about '99 iirc - 55p per litre of unleaded

-Corkie-

RoverJames wrote: »

Bit more than 4 years surely.

Cheapest I can remember was .78 in 2001. I have a picture of me filling in Charleville..

James Jones

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Surely it'll be charged at 1.44 on the pump?!?

Legally, the price displayed is the price you pay.

James Jones

James Jones wrote: »

Legally, the price displayed is the price you pay.

Does invitation to treat not apply to petrol and diesel? That price you see price you pay thing isn't true at all in retail.

Autosport

And i thought i got it cheap at 1.39 today

langdang

Oh that crazy Burger King and his price changing antics..

Alanstrainor

James Jones wrote: »

Legally, the price displayed is the price you pay.

Not true. As James said, a price tag is only an invitation to treat. My old business teacher would be proud:p

langdang

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Not true. As James said, a price tag is only an invitation to treat. My old business teacher would be proud:p

On the sign outside - thats just an advertisement basically, so I can see them not honouring that. But if they had the same price on the pump then I'd guess that's a different story???
Practicality would suggest they couldn't tell you at the til -sorry, it's actually a euro more! Twould be very much Shylock and his pound of flesh if ye were to agree to siphon out EXACTLY what you'd put in???

-Corkie-

There is a old filling station in Newmarket in Co. Cork thats closed nearly 8 years but the price board is still there with .75 cent for diesel!!!.

People still pull in to fill up!!!:p

mgbgt1978

The "invitation to treat" does not apply to fuel retailers. Although a customer can not demand to pay the price displayed on the advertising sign the retailer can be fined for advertising a false price.
Although in this case it does appear to be human error rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead.

-Corkie-

Here Not as cheap!!!

VolvoMan

I don't really get it, it was obviously just a mistake on the sign

alias no.9

Max Power1 wrote: »

I can still remember (2-4 years ago) when it was that price

Ah here, I worked in a petrol station in the early to mid 1990's, diesel was 49.9p for years, it never change price, it was the cheapest in a 20 mile radius or maybe more but even that had hit ~60p over 10 years ago.

Reloc8

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

The "invitation to treat" does not apply to fuel retailers. Although a customer can not demand to pay the price displayed on the advertising sign the retailer can be fined for advertising a false price.
Although in this case it does appear to be human error rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead.

source please ?

We may not disagree...as you have pointed out the customer cannot demand to pay the price advertised. The same applies to all retailed products, before ever you get into the doctrine of Mistake at Contract Law.

(law geek as well as car geek - these things matter to me).

Top Dog

-Corkie- wrote: »

There is a old filling station in Newmarket in Co. Cork thats closed nearly 8 years but the price board is still there with .75 cent for diesel!!!.

Give it another few months and you could probably put a 1 before that and still be cheaper than everyone else with the rate prices are going up :mad: Spotted today that our nearest petrol station has tacked another 2c onto the price per litre of unleaded, breaking through the 150 barrier to now be 151.9c/l

Alanstrainor

langdang wrote: »

On the sign outside - thats just an advertisement basically, so I can see them not honouring that. But if they had the same price on the pump then I'd guess that's a different story???
Practicality would suggest they couldn't tell you at the til -sorry, it's actually a euro more! Twould be very much Shylock and his pound of flesh if ye were to agree to siphon out EXACTLY what you'd put in???

My original post said that the pump would probably charge the full price. But I see where you're coming from, it's not like it's a carton of milk you can just put back in the firdge. I'm not too sure how they'd handle it tbh!
"Eh excuse me while I take the diesel out of your tank"...eh no!

mgbgt1978

Reloc8 wrote: »

source please ?

We may not disagree...as you have pointed out the customer cannot demand to pay the price advertised. The same applies to all retailed products, before ever you get into the doctrine of Mistake at Contract Law.

(law geek as well as car geek - these things matter to me).

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0178.html.

This law (purely for petrol & diesel) states that the price advertised must match the price charged.
It's not like a supermarket (or any retail outlet) where you could be asked to pay a different price trhan the one advertised on the shelf.
Once you have filled your car with fuel it is much harder to "put it back on the shelf" if you have been misled by an indicated price.

Also on a practical note the price advertised is per litre which really doesn't mean much to people who put in €20 etc. They are rarely going to check how many litres they got for their money.

pajor

Read about the same sorta thing happening in an Asda, while back in England.

Imagine getting to the pump and finding the price of petrol is 12.9p!!

skyhighflyer

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0178.html.

This law (purely for petrol & diesel) states that the price advertised must match the price charged.
It's not like a supermarket (or any retail outlet) where you could be asked to pay a different price trhan the one advertised on the shelf.
Once you have filled your car with fuel it is much harder to "put it back on the shelf" if you have been misled by an indicated price.

Also on a practical note the price advertised is per litre which really doesn't mean much to people who put in €20 etc. They are rarely going to check how many litres they got for their money.

All that regulation covers is advertising?

The situation regarding petrol is the same as everything else. A retailer could be fined for displaying misleading prices by the consumer agency or whoever but that would operate separately from the invitation to treat issue.

skyhighflyer

Edit: the situation would be different if the price was on the pump too. Although in this case I assume it was just the sign

Mr.Boots

Its either a mistake or a faulty sign.....Why all the caffufel?

-Corkie-

Mr.Boots wrote: »

Its either a mistake or a faulty sign.....Why all the caffufel?

Nobody noticed the Felt spec Bora in the picture. One for the Skangermobile thread...:D

Mr.Boots

-Corkie- wrote: »

Nobody noticed the Felt spec Bora in the picture. One for the Skangermobile thread...:D

He probably nicked the 1 from the sign to use as a red i on his TDi:p

doctorchopper

you'll notice at a lot of petrol stations it says price will be taken from pump, so if its different on the sign its whats on the pump that you pay.

Vicxas

Christ i miss when petrol was 99c

VolvoMan

-Corkie- wrote: »

Nobody noticed the Felt spec Bora in the picture. One for the Skangermobile thread...:D

Speaking of Felt spec, I saw a Passat the other day with a TDI badge.:eek:

I'd say it had to be remapped to at least 170bhp to be worthy of that badge.