Jolly pre-pay pumps!

[Delerium]

what unit?

[Ragingrob]

I just had an idea... With the help of that $1 idea already mentioned!

This is a GREAT idea... I think

Well pretty much when I'm bored one day I'll go along to Gull when that same lady is working in the car and pay $1 (or whatever the minimum) at a time, going in, filling up, going in again etc etc... Right so that's what has already been said... BUT!

Eftpos/Credit card transactions cost the company supplying them right? Like for every transaction it costs Gull 40c or something? Well... As I'm on a tertiary account both eftpos and credit transactions are 100% free for me... Sooo... $1 at a time on eftpos will cost Gull almost half what I'm paying them!

Right??!?!

I think I'd probably have a mad laughing fit the entire time too.

[blossomsowner]

genius.........let us know when so there can be a whole crowd of spectators

[pzkpfw]

A forecourt full of your mates doing the same thing?


Hate pre-pay (assumed guilty until proven innocent), but can sort of handle it in the car, as I always just bang $40 or $50 in it anyway.

Bikes should be exempt.

[phaedrus]

Eftpos/Credit card transactions cost the company supplying them right? Like for every transaction it costs Gull 40c or something? Well... As I'm on a tertiary account both eftpos and credit transactions are 100% free for me... Sooo... $1 at a time on eftpos will cost Gull almost half what I'm paying them!

use credit card, it costs them - depending on your bank eftpos costs you

[Slyer]

Stuff the protests, just tell them you are taking your business elsewhere.
It's that simple.

[macros87]

i must say 90% of the times i fill up i do it at the point chev mobil and they hv never asked me to prepay, then again i always take my helmet off... dont know why, just force of habit i guess. the people who get asked to prepay have alot of the time i heard about it kept their helmets on, maybe not seeing your face worries them? id try it and test that theory but i hv a good thing going and it would be a big detour to go find 98 somewhere else.

[speedpro]

I drive into a servo, see prepay sign, I drive out of servo.

Can you imagine having to prepay at PaknSave????

[PrincessBandit]

I wont go to Gull Takanini for the same reason. Needed to fill the Chariot, was in a rush (running late for school....oops). Saw the prepay signs and was told they stick to that rule when I asked to fill the car, so I said "in that case I'll have $15 and I'll fill it somewhere else later today".
Easily solved. (If I'd had heaps of time I'd have said "forget it then, see ya" but as my fuel needle was on E, which I know for a fact does not stand for "enough", I was desparate!)

[MSTRS:Me]

This talk of $1 at a time...don't the pumps all have a sticker that states minimum delivery 2 litres? But the idea does have merit. Bit like the one about not using (fuel co of the day) in protest at price hikes...

[wysper]

This talk of $1 at a time...don't the pumps all have a sticker that states minimum delivery 2 litres? But the idea does have merit. Bit like the one about not using (fuel co of the day) in protest at price hikes...

I think that is a minimum accurate delivery of 2 lt. Anything under that is not guaranteed to be an accurate ammount. Could be wrong though. But you can pump less.

[sunhuntin]

yep, you can pump less than the sticker says. at my bp, we often got in the high school scooter kids. theyd come in every few days, and often, id struggle to get even a liter in some of them. so you can for sure pump less.

i think the prepay vs riders thing comes down to whos working the till. when i was there, bikes NEVER had to prepay, and i made sure that was stuck to by the other staff [it helped having a biker for a boss as well] so, try going in and making friends with some of the staff.
i knew most of the local riders on sight, and just assumed the best of riders i didnt know. BUT, i did use the bike as an excuse to go out and chat.
car drivers were the same... the ones who were in daily got the pumps opened. everyone else was made to pay or leave keys/eftpos card at the counter. we would lean the cards against the computer screen. the computer had the pump numbers along the bottom, and wed put the card in front of the relevant pump... handy when the till was worked by different people.