Petrol pumps

profun · 18-12-2009 07:35PM

If youve gone over by a few cent you just walk in with the 20 note or whatever amonut you may have got in petrol . announce 20 euros worth of petrol. hand note to the cashier. say thanks and walk out.
if youve only got a 50 euro note and you only bought 20 euros worth(plus a few cent) then you look the cashier straight in the eye annonce 20 euros worth of petrol. maintain eye contact until he opens the cash register, finds a 20 euro note and a tenner. he/she will then hand you the notes and off you go without having to watch the cashier count out 29.96 in change.

Agricola · 18-12-2009 07:43PM

Its funny how so many people have no problem getting completely robbed with the price of drink these days, but they think the shop should pay for the extra few cent they run over on their petrol. :rolleyes:

Yellowblackbird · 18-12-2009 07:58PM

I always pump petrol into the tank until Click the tank is full. I take note of the amount of money due and give money to the cashier. I have found that petrol stations almost universally have adopted the practical expedient of having cash registers containing Change. This allows customers to tender inexact sums of money and to then to be given change by the cashier. Whilst initially complicated this system can be quickly mastered and leads to very successful fuel purchases for motorists.

Trekker09 · 19-12-2009 02:15PM

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

I always pump petrol into the tank until Click the tank is full. I take note of the amount of money due and give money to the cashier. I have found that petrol stations almost universally have adopted the practical expedient of having cash registers containing Change. This allows customers to tender inexact sums of money and to then to be given change by the cashier. Whilst initially complicated this system can be quickly mastered and leads to very successful fuel purchases for motorists.

Ah, why did I not think of this approach? Wake up and read the fookin post properly smartass!!

biko · 19-12-2009 02:21PM

OP what would you do if you bought something for 19.98 and the assistant didn't bother to give you your 2 cents back?

Ticktactoe · 20-12-2009 03:19AM

Its really quite simple. If ur concerned about Goin to two or three cents over, then make sure u remain under! If i happen to go over by two cents, then i pay it. After all it is sitting in ur tank!

KeyLimePie · 20-12-2009 04:12AM

well having worked in a petrol station for 3 years I never take the few cent over, my limit is 5cent depending on what kind of mood I'm in, and by god i'll make you pay the 10cent.....

However what really irks me is the people who pump 19.98 then expect their 2cent back off a 20, like even if they walked away I would throw it into the poor box

granadaghia · 20-12-2009 09:23PM

got fuel at a garage near Naas some time ago , 20 euro diesel put it in myself , went in payed , when i started up the vehicle diplay didnt show the remaining miles i was expecting for 20 euros , i let car idle for some time to check and moved car away from pump ,no change
went into shop , but all staff were non Irish , immediate no speak english , gave me number of manager who came from asia also , no help .
drove along and had to buy more fuel elsewhere to continue my journey , did this ever happen to anyone else ? what control do they have over the pumps , would never buy fuel there again .

Mike 1972 · 20-12-2009 09:49PM

^^ In some cars if you dont take the key out of the ignition when you fill the tank the fuel guage doesnt register the petrol and it looks like youve an empty tank when its actually full. Take the key out put it back in again and start the car and fuel guage should then say full

(probably made a complete @r$€; of explaining this)

20-12-2009 09:57PM

Magnus wrote: »

OP what would you do if you bought something for 19.98 and the assistant didn't bother to give you your 2 cents back?

This has happened me I'd twice in the last month.. Not giving the coppers back. It's really really weird.

20-12-2009 09:59PM

granadaghia wrote: »

got fuel at a garage near Naas some time ago , 20 euro diesel put it in myself , went in payed , when i started up the vehicle diplay didnt show the remaining miles i was expecting for 20 euros , i let car idle for some time to check and moved car away from pump ,no change
went into shop , but all staff were non Irish , immediate no speak english , gave me number of manager who came from asia also , no help .
drove along and had to buy more fuel elsewhere to continue my journey , did this ever happen to anyone else ? what control do they have over the pumps , would never buy fuel there again .

Remaining miles goes on the average for the few miles beforehand.. Filling up after a motorway and filling up in town will give very different remaining miles.

Might be the cause, I'd hope a garage wasn't meddling with pumps.

citizen_p · 20-12-2009 10:03PM

i never do.....but i always get it spot on 40 say....and then press it again

my logic being that those one or two drips that come off after you remove it are worth 7 or 8 cent

never charged...

recycle · 20-12-2009 10:05PM

Of course not.

Those few cent never actually go into your car - instead dribbles out onto the ground when u remove the pump from your tank.

Sofiztikated · 20-12-2009 10:20PM

recycle wrote: »

Of course not.

Those few cent never actually go into your car - instead dribbles out onto the ground when u remove the pump from your tank.

Bull honkey. Learn to use the pumps, and you never spill a drop. If you are spilling it, you're doing it wrong.

Can you manage to get a spoonful of soup to your mouth without dribbling it over your nice new bib? Course you can.

A pump, when it has stopped pumping, takes a second or two for the remaining fuel past the cut off to reach the end.

If you went into McDonalds, and you dropped a few chips on the ground, would you expect to pay 97c, or the €1 that is displayed on the menu? Its your fault, you pay for it.

And, yes OP, yes you should pay for it. if the pump operator cannot use correctly an item that 1000's of other people use daily correctly, is it the pump operators fault, or the equipment the operator? I'm going to go with the operator.

Do most places ask you for it, now thats a different story. Should they ask you for it? In theory yes, they SHOULD ask for it, as it is the price displayed. Do they bother, mostly no.

NothingMan · 21-12-2009 09:17AM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Bull honkey. Learn to use the pumps, and you never spill a drop. If you are spilling it, you're doing it wrong.

Can you manage to get a spoonful of soup to your mouth without dribbling it over your nice new bib? Course you can.

A pump, when it has stopped pumping, takes a second or two for the remaining fuel past the cut off to reach the end.

As I said before, I worked in a petrol station for 3 years as a teenager and been driving since I was 17 and depending on the pump I sometimes go over by and extra cent despite watching the pump reletively carefully. And some pumps no matter how much you drain the pump or wait a few seconds when you have to tilt it to get it out of the car some drops do spill on some pumps.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't have to pay for it, but obviously it's well accepted by garages that you don't, but to say it will never happen if you use the pumps right is wrong and all garages have buckets of saw dust type stuff to sprinkle around the pumps every few hours for just this reason.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 21-12-2009 09:28AM

Trekker09 wrote: »

Yea, that few cents will get me far!!

Well it all depends on what care you were driving OP, I don't think you would get very far in a dodge ram...

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