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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P.S. experience tells me Y’all tattlers are white. In the hood -snitches get stitches.
“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.”
I do remember gas lines. I worked in a high rise building at the time and would check out the nearby gas station lines from my office window on the 8th floor and when I saw the lines get down to 3-4 cars I would haul ass over to the station to get gas. It was nuts.
What you describe is much much worse. No gas. Nada. Dry. Lets hope and pray it doesn’t come to that.
Nope. What they did was totally legal but moral theft. I myself would have not done it and told the station owner to shut his pumps down and correct the error.
This same error has happened on airline computer booking services. They honored the tickets.
69 cents is a ripoff!
i remember when gas was routinely 29.9 cents
and
it got as low as 19 cents in a gas war (and they gave you free dishes, free savings stamps, plus they cleaned your windscreen and checked your oil, water, and tires)
anyone charging as much as 69 cents a gallon should be thrown into prison!
smiles
The reason ‘nobody was looking anybody in the eye’ was because they all knew they were stealing.
I would like to think I would have asked the attendant. And you can bet, some dude lost his job over it. I’ve been there.
I remember my dad sending me down the street to the gas station for mower gas. He’d give me a SILVER fifty cent piece, a GLASS gallon jug, and I’d get a ten oz soda and a candy bar with the change. But don’t worry, we always used unleaded for the lawnmower.
didn’t have unleaded back then ... except for Amoco white gas ...
I honestly think the Left believes all ICE car drivers deserve
that sort of thing.
These people are vicious.
I was thinking that also.
It wasn’t an underling either.
Very unfortunate. Given that responsibility, you need to
be very diligent and responsible, so it’s not uncalled for.
It would be interesting to see what percentage of population would have reported a 90% underpricing in every decade since 1950. I am sure it has declined.
I normally correct an error a store makes, either up or down, if it is material. I had clerks give me the senior discount on charging for a haircut, but I always corrected them and paid the full fair.
I remember someone saying, the list of things you have a right to do, is much longer than the list of things you should do.
It’s 1962, accidentally.
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No, gas in 1962 was more like 30 cents per gallon.
If you’d have said 1972 I’d have agreed.
I remember paying $0.87 per gallon for regular back in December of 1999.
I remember the opening of SuperAmerica, a convenience chain on East 41. All grades of gas were 69 cents, it was no error, rather a promo.
Cabbie’s heaven.
I doubt it. It isn’t a customer’s job to report odd pricing to the management. I am sure they would if it was 69 dollars a gallon.
I’m so old that I remember when $0.69 was an outrageously HIGH price!
Kids these days can’t grasp what “order of magnitude” means, much less having them figure out what half of a half is.
This is a realistic post. I worked retail for awhile and when a price was marked as the price you have to sell it at that price unless a person asks you if the price is correct. People do not ask for the most part.
The manager or sales person who messed up the decimal point will probably end up living in a tent.
I do feel bad for the station owner. He had a bad day.
In no way is their F up someone else’s theft.
I would too. No long ago, I waited in a self serve check out line at a local Meijers and when I got to my car, I discovered I had not paid for a clove of garlic. So I went back in and paid for it.
Same thing happened last night. There was confusion in the new check out process and I forgot to scan 4 tins of Altoids and discovered it when I got to my car. I took them back into the store, scanned and paid for them.......
Why? It was the right thing to do.....
No, it’s not legally a theft. But if you drive off knowing you paid just $8 for over $80 in gasoline, shame on you. Who do you think is going to get stuck with that shortfall? An evil oil company?
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