What would you do?

Comment #17

jim695 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:28:11 GMT

I can't help wondering why that first person would pull into a closed station and try to fill up. If I were a cop, I'd be inclined to believe the "mistake" was intentional. If not, how would anyone have known they could get cheap gas there? Regardless, the first person to discover the error should have reported it. A friend of mine owned a mini-mart in Wolf Lake for several years. He told me that these little stores operate on a profit margin similar to that of a large grocery store. Hi... [ More ]

Comment #16

pacattack05 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:04:03 GMT

I would fire someone if they priced the pump at 32.90 a gallon..wow...! 32 bucks a gallon times 20 gallons? 600 bucks to fill up? X25 times X how many cars? equals thousands... WOW

Comment #15

justxploring — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:34:40 GMT

Pac, perhaps you didn't read the news article. It clearly states that the gas station attendant whose job it is to change the price (and he's done it 25 times over the past year!) goofed by forgetting to add the extra nine so the pump read it as 32.9 instead of .99 If you look at a pump it always has that extra 9. Anyway, the manager said he wouldn't be fired, but I wonder if people will anonymously return some of the money. That would be an interesting idea - run an article saying it w... [ More ]

Comment #14

pacattack05 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:11:48 GMT

DO NOT BUY GAS AT CITGO, and pass this around to everyone you know.

Comment #13

Rick G — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:38:46 GMT

The people who took advantage of the "deal" should make that gas station their only source of gas from now on. By consciously giving him more business in the future his loss will be minimized somewhat and they will be slowly paying him back.

Comment #12

pacattack05 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:45:37 GMT

If I knew it was coming out of the pockets of those greedy oil companies and big wigs, I'd have no problem sleeping that night. Those commoditiy exchange folks are to blame too, considering everytime there is a small hiccup in the news about Iran or something, they think they have the right to increase the price. We have plenty of oil right here in the U.S., in Alaska, but the tree huggers are stopping the drilling. Let them pay the difference in the price and then they can save all t... [ More ]

Comment #11

LANTERN — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:26:42 GMT

You are of course right, while those people could not be charged with stealing, because legally they were not, morally they were, but perhaps not all of them, as some people might had thought that that was really the right price, not everybody is bright enough to figure such or some things out by themselves. And no, I am not trying to put some of those people down.

Comment #10

justxploring — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:53:46 GMT

I always say I'm not perfect and definitely have made some bad decisions in my life. I still do. But everytime we do something that isn't moral, we are only hurting ourselves. I guess it depends on what you feel about an afterlife and the purification of mind, body, spirit.

Comment #9

rcbbuckeye — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:54:24 GMT

Justxploring, my first car was a VW Beetle, and I remember stopping at the gas station down the road from where I grew up and buying 50 cents worth of gas, which bought me a gallon. I could drive about 30 miles on that. Boy that brought memories! LOL

Comment #8

Tenaj — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:09:13 GMT

The situation was more like a lack of integrity with a temptation so great - it resulted in stealing. Anytime you take something that doesn't belong to you without permission and do not pay for it - it is stealing - regardless of how great the temptation was or how it happened. It's like - do you alert the cashier if she gives you back too much change?

Comment #7

JAP69 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:49:39 GMT

However they obviously knew it was wrong and did take advantage of the situation.. Maybe with a guilty conscious.

Comment #6

ToadSchmode — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:12:56 GMT

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Comment #5

justxploring — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:58:19 GMT

Toad, I was going to wait for more posts, since I said this wouldn't be a debate and it isn't. So I won't argue about it, but in case you didn't know, the average profit on a gallon of gas is around 3.6 cents. That's why so many stations sell coffee and snacks. They make a lot more on a hot dog and a coke than on a gallon of gas.

Comment #4

ToadSchmode — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:42:30 GMT

I think the gas station owner is wealthy! If i was getting gas and that's all they charged and the station was closed, i'd probably not think anything of it and go on my merry way... I wouldn't call up everyone i know and if someone called me i surely wouldn't run down and wait in line to get gas even if it was free.

Comment #3

ThatScaryChick — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:35:02 GMT

Ok, I didn't read the story the first go 'round and I should have, sorry. =) Well that is a different story. Those people who took the gas in my opinion really took advantage of a mistake and are horrible people, but I don't if they can be charged with theft. It says that they paid with their credit cards so I guess they can find out who bought some gas and ban them maybe?, but I don't think they can be charged because the gas attendant made the price mistake and the customers t... [ More ]

Comment #2

justxploring — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:17:33 GMT

I'm 56 and I've never spent 33 cents for gas in my life. I remember paying 50 cents a gallon when I was a teenager, so I would never think it was a promotion. People who were lined up drove there specifically to get the gas because of word of mouth. In Fort Myers up the road a bit this happened too. It was during the day and the attendant changed the price in the morning and forgot to add the extra 9. That's what happend in WI. It's never 3.19 a gallon but 3.199. I'm not... [ More ]

Comment #1

ThatScaryChick — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:47:04 GMT

Now is it stealing? I think maybe. Why? Well although it was a mistake on the gas owners part or the attendant, maybe some people honestly thought there was some type of deal going on. (I highly doubt that though) Plus, I remember a story when gas prices were going up a couple of years ago there were some gas stations that would let people gas up for an hour or two for way below the regular price (for a promotion type thing) so maybe they thought it was some type of promotion like that. Ho... [ More ]

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