Posted on 06/11/2022 1:49:16 PM PDT by DFG
Drivers at a gas station in Rancho Cordova, California, were ecstatic Thursday when something unexpected happened.
A glitch on its pumps was selling fuel for $0.69 per gallon at the Shell station located on Sunrise Boulevard and White Rock Road, CBS Sacramento reported.
According to the outlet, Darryl Surita posted about the error on his social media profile.
“I looked at the numbers and it was 69 cents a gallon,” he recalled, adding, “So you know what I did, I hit that button and it started pumping and the dollar sign just stayed low.”
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“I started looking around and everybody had a smile like everybody had a big smile and they kinda were not looking at you in your eyes,” Surita told the local outlet.
The outlet said the decimal point on the marked price had been mistakenly moved. As a result, $6.99 a gallon for premium was reduced to $0.69 cents, and it took managers three hours to correct the mistake.
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That could close a station.
I honestly would have checked with the station owner before
pumping.
Feel good story of the day!
I’m sure that the station owner will have the police searching for his customers who took advantage of his mistake and charge them with property theft.
Hopefully they pre-paid with cash. I can see the gas stations attempting to adjust charges for anyone who used a credit card. In today’s world, who knows.
That’s around what gas was going for around the NYC area back in the late 70’s. Back then we thought that was a lot. It was one factor that cost Jimmah Carter the election.
“I honestly would have checked with the station owner before
pumping.”
Yeah I would have as well. I have caught similar mistakes before like this and alerted the seller and ended up paying more. Whatever.
That’s the price that could exist if we get a competent president and congess-critters in Nov and in ‘22. We can celebrate by finding and really creating misery in ALL leftist vermin.
Theft. The honest thing to do would’ve been to go in and tell the attendant.
I feel for the station owner.
The way I look at it, there’s worse than paying more.
It could be one more place that wouldn’t be in service by
the same time the next month.
The only think worse than having to pay high prices, is to
not be able to buy at any price.
I expect gas shortages in time.
Long lines may not be too far off.
If the house messed up in a gambling place, the player always wins.
Same thing here, if you program something to pay out at even free, that’s YOUR problem not the buyer’s.
As I understand it, the markup on gasoline at most U.S. stations is around $0.25 per gallon, so their cost for $6.99 fuel might be $6.74, which means that they lost around $6 per gallon on each sale. Let’s say that the average customer buys 12 gallons, that’s a $72 loss per customer. How many customers in 3 hours? Well, that depends on how busy that station is, time of day, location, etc. If they had 50 customers in 3 hours, they might have lost $3,600. If they had 500 customers, then $36,000.
I don’t the station posted the price at .69 that is what you get to pay. Same as any store, they have to sell at the price they set even if it’s incorrect.
Paying when you KNOW the price is wrong is stealing. Not sure that this would be the prevalent view, but I too would have alerted the owner. Ethics means not exploiting an obvious error.
I’m with you guys. Almost certainly a small business owner. My conscience wouldn’t let me take advantage of the situation
It’s 1962, accidentally.
Thanks for the tabulation.
When they sell the fuel, they have to make enough to replace
it. If they don’t, they will buy less.
Not good.
Those people who took advantage, likely screwed over everyone.
Im gonna either throw the BS flag or call the pope and get you all sainthood.. Because, Ive worked in the industry and it happens now and then and nobody every tells the attendant. They all just line up. And its all credit cards because no one walks in to buy $10.00 when its 69 cents.the register shows how much gas was pumped and the attendant would see it next time they went to reset the punp
The owner has no recourse against the customers, now the person who changed the price..... Thats where to lost money will or won’t come from. .
“That’s around what gas was going for around the NYC area back in the late 70’s. Back then we thought that was a lot. It was one factor that cost Jimmah Carter the election.”
That is about $2 in todays dollars.
Gas prices about doubled from the late 70’s till the election.
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