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what is up with people who dont pay at the pump?

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brianmanahan said:
cash discount? weird i have never seen that advertised at any stations in ohio
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Many places here have 2 signs, one cash and one credit. Cash is 10c less /gal. I always just go down the street to a different station with no cash discount, where it's ~5c more than the cash price of others. Use my credit card for 5% off which is near 20c /gal currently.
 
RockinZ28 said:
Use my credit card for 5% off which is near 20c /gal currently.
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penfed FTMFW

I don't know why not everybody with good credit has a penfed card. I've tried to do my part, I evangelize it, but some people are horses led to water. I have a co-worker proud that his card gives him 5% off one kind of gas station on certain days of the week and I had to tell him that penfed is all gas stations 24/7. Crestfallen.
 
I can't stand fucking around with a godam bank card on a fucking gas pump in -15c weather. That's why I much prefer going indoor to pay for my gas. I almost never use cash, I use debit for everything.

Now after reading similar threads in her I have started using my bank card at the pump in the summer but that's it. I hate the cold.
 
iamwiz82 said:
It's hard to find diesel pay at the pump here, for some reason.
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This. All of our work trucks are diesels and it's rare that i don't have to go inside to pay...very rare.
However, every single day i'm at a station somwhere and everday i see many, many people pay inside, be it cash or whatever.

Frankly, i don't care and think it's stupid for anyone to give a **** about it. I mean what do you guys expect from fuel stations? Go somewhere else if it's a bother.
 
One reason I sometimes go in to pay is because if I want to pay off my credit card, it takes longer for the charge to post to the account and then I have to wait to pay the whole balance off. So I'll go in, and ask them to turn on the pump and then come back and pay with the CC.
 
Doppel said:
penfed FTMFW

I don't know why not everybody with good credit has a penfed card. I've tried to do my part, I evangelize it, but some people are horses led to water. I have a co-worker proud that his card gives him 5% off one kind of gas station on certain days of the week and I had to tell him that penfed is all gas stations 24/7. Crestfallen.
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This 150%.
 
Mixolydian said:
The question should be, "Who the fuck still uses cash?"
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Hell up by my parents the only gas station in town doesn't accept CC because of the fines they charge so it's cash only but then again the pumps they use are so old they are analog still. 😛
 
I avoid going into the gas station whenever possible, so I always use my credit card.

In general life I use cash all the time, but for gas? Never; I just do not see the point.

KT
 
Newbian said:
Hell up by my parents the only gas station in town doesn't accept CC because of the fines they charge so it's cash only but then again the pumps they use are so old they are analog still. 😛
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I'd love to see that. I haven't seen an analog pump since the 80s I think.
 
dud said:
See the two responses to your OP. Back in 1980 personal debt wasn't the huge problem it is today.
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that is true

dud said:
Also, learn how to capitalize the first letter of the first word of each sentence. Try holding down the SHIFT key at the same time you type that first character.
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bah, capitalization is a meaningless construct, many languages do not have it and none need it. i hope a day comes when i am alive where capital letters are no longer used.
 
brianmanahan said:
bah, capitalization is a meaningless construct, many languages do not have it and none need it. i hope a day comes when i am alive where capital letters are no longer used.
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already done

ee cummings said:
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
“
”
From "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
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I prefer using cash to a credit card. In most other stores, it can take longer to use credit than it does cash. Type in a zip code, go through menus like 'Would you like cash back?', and then finally sign their name. And don't get me started on people that have issues with swiping their cards... ugh.

Alot of stores (locally owned) also have signs about adding charges if you use a credit card and don't spend above a certain amount ($20+). I'm not paying an extra 50 cents for a coffee.

I withdraw X dollars a month, and that is what I have to spend. I never look at my credit card bill (like I used to) and say 'shit, how did I spend that much?'.Yea, if there is some great sale on something I wanted, I'll use credit though.

At gas stations, if it really busy, I'll sometimes use a card, because I know it sucks waiting, but otherwise cash.
 
JamesV said:
I prefer using cash to a credit card. In most other stores, it can take longer to use credit than it does cash. Type in a zip code, go through menus like 'Would you like cash back?', and then finally sign their name. And don't get me started on people that have issues with swiping their cards... ugh.

Alot of stores (locally owned) also have signs about adding charges if you use a credit card and don't spend above a certain amount ($20+). I'm not paying an extra 50 cents for a coffee.

I withdraw X dollars a month, and that is what I have to spend. I never look at my credit card bill (like I used to) and say 'shit, how did I spend that much?'.Yea, if there is some great sale on something I wanted, I'll use credit though.

At gas stations, if it really busy, I'll sometimes use a card, because I know it sucks waiting, but otherwise cash.
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Are you thinking of debit cards? I've never seen any of those menus or those restrictions on credit cards, in fact I am pretty places are not allowed to place additional charges on a credit card transaction.

KT
 
Doppel said:
penfed FTMFW

I don't know why not everybody with good credit has a penfed card. I've tried to do my part, I evangelize it, but some people are horses led to water. I have a co-worker proud that his card gives him 5% off one kind of gas station on certain days of the week and I had to tell him that penfed is all gas stations 24/7. Crestfallen.
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wow, i did not know this card existed. i have a chase freedom but it only gives %5 in 2 of 4 quarters of the year

doppel you are my money saving hero of the day!
 
Number1 said:
I can't stand fucking around with a godam bank card on a fucking gas pump in -15c weather. That's why I much prefer going indoor to pay for my gas. I almost never use cash, I use debit for everything.

Now after reading similar threads in her I have started using my bank card at the pump in the summer but that's it. I hate the cold.
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Don't you have to stand out there while you pump anyway? I am confused.
 
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