Pre-pay pumps

[bogan]

I wouldn't mind pre-paying, but you just donno how much you need. It just means you have to go back in to get more. What happens if you over estimate, are they dicks about giving your cash back?

-Indy

Nah, first and only time I used it, 90 bucks for the van was too much, just go back in and cash refund.

Can't be assed with that shit though, especially when my tank gets 9.2L to reserve, bout 50/50 whether 20 bucks is going to be too much. Plenty of places round palmy that don't do pre-pay to use instead.

[slofox]

Ask RM about his prepay pump adventure

Like that, but more annoying!

-Indy

I'd love to do that.

[cs363]

I hate pre-pay, and in car or on bike, if I pull up to a servo and find the pump is on pre-pay - and I have an option - I just drive or ride off again.

+ 1 I refuse to use them unless there is absolutely no other option, which is fairly rare.

[Indiana_Jones]

Most places I seem to goto will let a bike fill up, but if they see a young guy in a modded car etc, they tend not to activate the pump

I guess they figure most bikes will get away with around 15-20L of fuel at the most.

-Indy

[Indiana_Jones]

+ 1 I refuse to use them unless there is absolutely no other option, which is fairly rare.

+1

-Indy

[Ender EnZed]

Never had a problem with them, they always switch them over for some reason

+1.

Never had to pay at any station before having the pump activated.

[p.dath]

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Not sure how this works. Petrol isn't a service, it's a good.

Say you are at a supermarket, if you get to the check-out and find you can't pay - you can just leave the stuff. It's also quite hard to just "run away" with a trolley load of goods.

Service station issues are quite different, it's "hard" to get the petrol back out of a vehicle, and much easier for people to run away with the goods....

Long ago I used to work at a service station. We used to just syphon the petrol back out when people couldn't pay. It wasn't that big of a deal. You just worked out roughly how many litres to extract, and then take it out.

[Indiana_Jones]

Long ago I used to work at a service station. We used to just syphon the petrol back out when people couldn't pay. It wasn't that big of a deal. You just worked out roughly how many litres to extract, and then take it out.

"Damn....I shouldn't have eaten the mint first

!"

-Indy

[awa355]

If you are on a long ride, have a smallish fuel tank and/or use a tank bag which has to be removed, You're going to want to put all you can into the tank.

I use the local Caltex stn mostly. The Ulysses met there, He's pretty good with motorcyclists.
I filled up one day then found my card was not in my wallet. The owner was quite okay letting me race off home to get it. Mind, if he didn't know my face as a regular, it might have been different.

Another occasion, a dear sweet old nana, dressed up, in a late model car was ahead of me at the counter. She had the wrong card and was quite upset, so being a model gentleman I paid for her.$70.00 She was so grateful and got my address so as to pay me back.

I'VE never seen the FUCKING OLD SLAG since. Have seen the car around town tho.

[The Pastor]

I guess you could go in and ask for $20 worth. Then go back in and say "I need some more - it ain't full. Let's try another $10!"

Then go back again and say "It's nearly full but not quite. Can I have another $2.00?"

And repeat ad nauseam until you are filled to the very brim.

Wonder what would happen?

only works on busy days with long ques. The petrol station attendants have more than enough time on their hands and don't give a shit either which way.

[slofox]

Another occasion, a dear sweet old nana, dressed up, in a late model car was ahead of me at the counter. She had the wrong card and was quite upset, so being a model gentleman I paid for her.$70.00 She was so grateful and got my address so as to pay me back.

I'VE never seen the FUCKING OLD SLAG since. Have seen the car around town tho.

She just forgot mate - y'get that when ya get...ummm....thingy...oLD! yeah..old...

[Road kill]

Every now an then when I'm in a different town from where I live "like Papakura" I wrap a rag or something around my number plate an then do a runner,,,,.

LOL,,I have real things to worry about,,prepaid pumps just don't rate on the could give a fuck measure

[awa355]

She just forgot mate - y'get that when ya get...ummm....thingy...oLD! yeah..old...

To be fair to her, apparently, someone came to the house a day later, but the only one home was our German exchange student ( she with the long long legs and no english). It may have been the old duck. Fuck, she was nice, the student, not the old girl.

[slofox]

( she with the long long legs and no english).

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[Blackshear]

Unless I have absolutely no other option - I will only fill enough to get me to one that wont charge me for a FILL.
It's just a pain in the asshole.
Only been 2 stations thus far, both fucking Mobils.

Fussin nussin russin prepay bullshit