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25-10-07, 10:05 AM | #1 |
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Rip off at petrol stations - possible faulty pumps
Ok. I went to my local petrol station last night and the cost of a litre of unleaded was 99.9p
I had a tenner on me so I filled it to 10 quid. Then I noticed that the readout also said 10 litres exactly. This puzzled me as 10 litres at 99.9p should be £9.99 So either I got charged too much or the readout for how much petrol that went in is wrong. If this is the case how do I actually know I got the petrol I paid for What does anyone else think? |
25-10-07, 10:13 AM | #2 | |
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25-10-07, 10:18 AM | #3 | |
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prob means you were just over 9.99 but not enough to move the quant display on, theres probably some tollerance allowed on the readouts as well, 0.01% is pretty accurate dont you think???? |
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25-10-07, 10:28 AM | #4 |
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At first, I thought "tight-ar$e git" (jokingly!), but then I realise that you're paying 99.9p per litre ... which seems a little more than you COULD have got it for ... and THEN I realised that you're in Berkshire. So ... I'm going with what the others said ... pump calibration and 0.01% ain't bad LOL
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25-10-07, 10:34 AM | #5 |
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1 penny
Jeez... |
25-10-07, 10:41 AM | #6 |
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every penny counts!
Think on this, I put all my 1 pences in a jar for a year at the end I get quite a sum, last year was around £240 and change. |
25-10-07, 11:18 AM | #7 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_one_penny_coin
So 1 penny piece is 3.58 grams. £240 is 24,000 coins. That's 85.44 kg. That's a **** load of coins. Do you run a super market or something? |
25-10-07, 11:19 AM | #8 |
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camels **** and sandstorm seem appropriate.
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25-10-07, 11:20 AM | #9 |
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£240= 24000p=65.763p per day------------JEEZ,you must get a lot of change
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25-10-07, 11:31 AM | #10 |
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It was more the fact that I hadnt noticed the difference before but it just made me think "how do I know that it has pumped out what it says it has?"
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