Fuel Price

[sigma]

If you dispense £5 of fuel at the pump and the till price is £5.01, which do you pay

[bhg481]

You insist the person on the till comes out and looks at the price on the pump. At that point it will have mystically changed to £5.01 just to make you look an idiot.
In reality you deserve a medal for getting the pump to stop on an exact pound - I'm convinced they're programmed to skip exact pounds so that people who want to pay a round sum will try the next pound up etc.

[weecalf]

came across this before and Im sure its been answered but .At the metre point is says 5 pounds so 5pounds of fuel has passed by that point but surely all that has not got to the tank or has it .

[B00]

I'd pay the 1p extra, purely because I couldn't be bothered to argue over a measly penny.

[heathfield]

Reminds me of the comedy sketch in, I think, "Alas Smith and Jones" with Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. Mel fills his car and is chuffed to have taken precisely £10 worth of fuel. Griff Rhys Jones, the filling station attendant, hits a red button on the cash register that adds a 1/2p to the price.

[ToraToraTora]

you need to get out more!

[New Judge]

What, on £5 worth of fuel? He won't be getting out very far !! :-)

[Bazile]

Is the poster really worried about 1p or is he seeking what the legal position is ?

[Prudie]

I'd pay the extra 1p and I expect I'd owe it - you know those sneaky drips when you think you've finished?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

...I think thats got more to do with the prostate Prudie :-)

[Prudie]

:-)

[Bazile]

//I'd pay the extra 1p and I expect I'd owe it - you know those sneaky drips when you think you've finished? //

Actually , wouldn't there be some residual fuel left in the hose part of the pump , because of the curve in hose of the pump , - which has been registered in the amount of fuel dispensed ; but which has not gone into your tank ? If you see what i mean

[sunny-dave]

The pump is pressurised as far as the nozzle/trigger - the same amount is left 'in the pipe' at the end of a dispense as at the beginning - you've lost nothing.

[islasmum]

I'm sure that sometime in the dim and distant past I've been into a garage that actually had a little dish of 1ps, so if you did go over by that, they just took one out of the bowl for you, and also if you had one p left over from buying something that was ending in 0.99 (such as a sandwich) you put the change in the dish. Unfortunately I can't remember for the life of me where this garage was! but I imagine that it's a country garage, rather than one in surburbia.

[sigma]

I was asking from a legal point of view. Similarly, if it's advertised as £1.37.9 per litre. How can you possibly pay that amount. Assuming you wanted a litre for your lawn mower.

"The pump is pressurised as far as the nozzle/trigger - the same amount is left 'in the pipe' at the end of a dispense as at the beginning - you've lost nothing. "
And yet you see people raising the hose up hoping to drain the last bit of fuel out !!!

[factor-fiction]

> if it's advertised as £1.37.9 per litre. How can you possibly pay that amount. Assuming you wanted a litre for your lawn mower.

But you don't buy by the litre- you buy it by the penny, sigma.

I think the issue of the bit in the hose is a red herring- swings and roundabouts mean there may have been a free bit in to start with