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To: tx_eggman

Oh please!
Don’t be a horses ass about this....
And DON’T MESS WITH MY WEB PAGE SAYING! ;)

Explain how it was stealing (and I’m serious here).....
I shop in a thrift store where things get mislabled and no one realizes it....

So they rush up to the counter with something they think is a buck. An honest belief, only to be told it was 10 bucks.
I’ve yet to see anyone buy it....

If you see a pump that says 33, I’d just think, “OK, it’s 33”. The vendor priced it.


77 posted on 12/10/2007 11:03:22 AM PST by najida (Will you dance at my birthday party?)
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To: najida
If you see a pump that says 33, I’d just think, “OK, it’s 33”. The vendor priced it.

If the pump says "$0.329" while the brightly-lit sign looming over the roadway says "$3.299" would you still think that?

92 posted on 12/10/2007 11:12:48 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: najida
I’d just think, “OK, it’s 33”. The vendor priced it.

I see ... and the station owner sells 586 gallons of gas at what is probably cost him $2.75 per gallon so nobody got hurt right?

Tell you what, you keep dancing through life like nobody's looking, I'll pass.

96 posted on 12/10/2007 11:18:22 AM PST by tx_eggman ("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
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To: najida
Oh, and ...

DON’T MESS WITH MY WEB PAGE SAYING

Then don't put it out there for the world to see how inconsistent you are.

99 posted on 12/10/2007 11:19:37 AM PST by tx_eggman ("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
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To: najida

a) The street sign says 3.29, not .329.
b) Being 90% off normal gasoline prices should tip off the common-sense meter that something is wrong.


107 posted on 12/10/2007 11:23:34 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: najida
Explain how it was stealing (and I’m serious here).....

The SIGN at the station clearly says the price is $3.299. So if the pump is incorrectly set to $0.329, but the sign clearly says $3.299, then the person who knowingly and deliberately pumps the gas to take advantage of an opportunity to obtain gas at approximately one-tenth of its price is stealing.

Just like my example with the X-Box. If you were buying a $329.95 X-box, (having looked at the price tag to verify the price) but the cashier rang it up for $3.29 it would be stealing to walk out of the store having paid only $3.29 for something you knew was priced at 100 times the amount.

182 posted on 12/10/2007 1:48:54 PM PST by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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