I got ripped off at a gas pump Monday
Jul. 12th, 2006 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneI was really tired heading home Monday night. I was also really low on gas. I didn't have the low fuel light on yet, but I knew that it would be on before I got to the top of the mountain (14 miles) and I'd have to put gas in it in Cloudcroft, which would require the +$0.10/gallon mountain tax (an exaggeration, there is no mountain tax except that everything in Cloudcroft is a little bit more expensive). So I stop at the Chevron at the base of the mountain and fill it up. It takes longer than usual, but maybe my time sense was screwed up because of my tiredness.
Pump shuts off and I look at the display and my receipt. It says that I pumped 12.507 gallons. Slight problem. My gas tank is an 11.something tank.
I didn't have my owner's manual in the car, it was at home as I'd looked something up in it and hadn't put it back in the car. So I check, and sure enough, I have an 11.9 gallon tank. The regular Toyota Matrix has a 13.2 gallon tank, but I have the 4WD version which requires a smaller tank for the additional transmission components.
In short, I've been slightly robbed. And no, I didn't spill a half gallon of gas all over the side of my car and on the concrete of the station. I just reviewed my notebook where I log all of my gas purchases, and found that we were similarly rippped on our trip to BlingFest, most likely in a town in New Mexico whose name eludes me for the moment, they're on I-40 not too far from the Texas border. Russet filled that tank and didn't notice it, and it's probably too late to do much about it.
Tuesday AM I stop at the store and tell the clerk what happened. He seemed fairly uninterested, said he couldn't do anything about it, and gave me the manager's phone number. I called and left a message, it's now been almost 36 hours without a reply.
Tomorrow I call the New Mexico equivalent of Weights & Measures, the bureau that certifies gas pumps and other measuring devices. I have the receipt, I have my notebook. I'm probably out $3-5, I would like to have that money back, but I definitely want the station whacked if they're pulling this on a routine basis.
I have since found out that this gas station is rather infamous for overcharging people like this. If they get called on it, they refund money, otherwise they just go on quietly ripping-off people.
Lovely.
Pump shuts off and I look at the display and my receipt. It says that I pumped 12.507 gallons. Slight problem. My gas tank is an 11.something tank.
I didn't have my owner's manual in the car, it was at home as I'd looked something up in it and hadn't put it back in the car. So I check, and sure enough, I have an 11.9 gallon tank. The regular Toyota Matrix has a 13.2 gallon tank, but I have the 4WD version which requires a smaller tank for the additional transmission components.
In short, I've been slightly robbed. And no, I didn't spill a half gallon of gas all over the side of my car and on the concrete of the station. I just reviewed my notebook where I log all of my gas purchases, and found that we were similarly rippped on our trip to BlingFest, most likely in a town in New Mexico whose name eludes me for the moment, they're on I-40 not too far from the Texas border. Russet filled that tank and didn't notice it, and it's probably too late to do much about it.
Tuesday AM I stop at the store and tell the clerk what happened. He seemed fairly uninterested, said he couldn't do anything about it, and gave me the manager's phone number. I called and left a message, it's now been almost 36 hours without a reply.
Tomorrow I call the New Mexico equivalent of Weights & Measures, the bureau that certifies gas pumps and other measuring devices. I have the receipt, I have my notebook. I'm probably out $3-5, I would like to have that money back, but I definitely want the station whacked if they're pulling this on a routine basis.
I have since found out that this gas station is rather infamous for overcharging people like this. If they get called on it, they refund money, otherwise they just go on quietly ripping-off people.
Lovely.
