Getting ripped off at the pump

[buckeyefarmer]

You're much more likely to be a victim of card skimming than you are from tampered pumps.

I’ve been a skimmer victim. Credit card company caught it.

I’m usually too busy looking at the idiots at a gas pump that look like they never been to one before, and it takes them 20 minutes to figure it out.

 

[Citydude]

I’ve been a skimmer victim. Credit card company caught it.

I’m usually too busy looking at the idiots at a gas pump that look like they never been to one before, and it takes them 20 minutes to figure it out.

I stopped looking at the idiots at the other gas pumps after I pumped 15 gallons of gas in my diesel truck a few years ago.

 

[MossRoad]

I’ve been a skimmer victim. Credit card company caught it.

I’m usually too busy looking at the idiots at a gas pump that look like they never been to one before, and it takes them 20 minutes to figure it out.

My wife works for a financial institution and has shown me videos of skimmers, scammers, and ATM thieves. Pretty ingenious, if you think about it. You have to wonder how much better this world would be if these criminal masterminds put their skills to good instead of evil.

 

[Reddogs]

It’s got nothing to do with the accuracy of amount of fuel being pumped but the price gouging that happened. The sign was $4.79 and the pump charged me $7.55. It was at a ConocoPhillips station in my town. The fella from the state said he made them print all the diesel tickets for the last 48 hours and some of them were $300 -$400.

Wow, incredible they would do that. But its true its set by satelite link, seen that at other stations, not sure how they change the display price.

 

[Oaktree]

Not all pumps have a price per gallon or even a total sale display on them. A company that is one of the largest bulk fuel and propane suppliers in the state has a large number of unattended card swipe stations in my state. I buy red diesel for my tractor at a pump at one of these stations. The pumps they use for these are all mechanical pumps with just a meter for volume dispensed. The price per gallon is only listed at the little card swipe kiosk where you swipe your card before going to the pump and pumping the fuel.

There was a place around here that had a similar setup. A couple years ago they replaced their pumps with traditional ones with built in card readers and all info displayed.