Pumphunt - Fuel price search

Sounds like a tinder alternative.

It's something to do with browser/settings/privacy etc.

Cheapest isnt all ways the best as there is alot of yellow pack fuel out there that you only get 5 miles to the gallon so you want to be posting about quality as well call out those stations profiting out of your misery.

I have bought from stations & only got down the road & had a big drop in fuel. We all been told of stations to stay away from.

What are the colour codes in the map for?

Nearly always this is "pub talk" as most people don't realise that all fuel is literally identical except for the additive some put in as a marketing ploy to get people to pay extra. The only thing that can be different is if the tanks are old and not serviced properly, but that would be very rare due to regulations

If a station is getting fuel from whitegate, (Irving oil owners of TOP) the tankers literally line up and it makes no difference what livery is on the tanker you simply fill up in turn. In Dublin Applegreen took over the Topaz/Esso share in a storage facility. Valero (Texaco) are the other 50% owner. Irving Oil also have facilities in Dublin. Most fuel sold in Leinster comes from one of these two facilities. Delivery is usually by companies such as Camp freight, Reynolds or DHL Energy. Circle K have facilities in Dublin airport (jet fuel) & Galway.

Basically oil is refined into petrol & diesel in huge quantities. The fuel tankers can carry ten of millions of refined fuel and they simply unload into whatever storage facility required. It is then distributed to fuel stations. So before any marketing additives are added, ALL fuel is absolutely identical.

So adding a section for people to make defamatory statements because they heard something from some drunk in a pub on on some karen's social media page, would not be conducive to good business

I am assuming it's from the old Google data?

If fuel is all the same ask the filling stations that have four prices up for there fuel. regular & super its wide ope to take advantage of you i can only tell you of what i experienced & others told me of stations to stay away from.

Yes, you can just imagine a comment about the fuel somewhere being dodgy.

How do you cover the legal risks.

Comments would also probably attract contributors who may have a political angle that would spill over into prices posted. We saw this already earlier in the year.

After you put in your price you needed to press the big green square button that says update prices.

Ah OK. I had the initial issue of not pressing the green button and was wondering why it wasn't updating.

Definitely, please update the prices, even if you just remember to update one after your journey please do it.

Not trying to be mean or the usual Irish begrudger here, but I’m not sure how this app will be a success.

I tried it a few months ago and there were no stations at all listed in New Ross, a town of 8,000 people with a hinterland of 3 counties. Am I going to bother adding the 8 or so stations around New Ross for free? No.

I’ve been using Waze. It’s reliable, gives me navigation and alerts, gps speedo. I can log into it with my Google account. I can use it all over Europe to find stations and get prices.

More importantly, it has a lot of users.

With Google maps allowing stations to add their prices and Waze getting more popular, I just don’t think there is space for a dedicated fuel price app.

In fairness to you, they are there now. Unfortunately, for me at the time it was enough to stop me using app and use an alternative.

The success of may apps/sites technologies is down to Metcalfe’s Law. In short, the more users something has, the moser useful it will be.

Is there an email for support pumphunt?

I have used the contract us, but never a reply. I tried to add applegreen stations , without success, 2 on the M1 Lusk, north and south,. 2 at julianstown on each side of the road, petrol at 185.8 , diesel at 206.8 all stations.

Thanks you have indeed added/updated many stations, but none of the applegreen I've submitted/ mentioned in my post, you'll see them on Google maps.