[The Mountaineer]

Different prices for cash or credit card is old news to other parts of Florida, I've found during my 19 years of winters there. Service stations pay a fee for every credit card transaction so they're trying to dissuade you from using your credit card to save THEM money, too. On the other hand, I get frequent flyer miles for using my credit card, which has saved me $1,000 on flights so far. So you have to weigh the positives and the negatives about everything you do financially. It's not always simply black and white.

[obxgal]

Cash only ... too paranoid that the pump will have a fake reader on it.

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by Penguin

I wont ever buy BP gas. Remember when they installed inferior parts on the oil rig in the gulf and created an oil spill and killed some workers. Or when they were selling bad gas at a lot of their stations that caused people to have their cars repaired.

I agree with you. How quickly people forget. And with it all, BP came out of all of that smelling like a rose.

I don't believe that a previous poster gets better mileage with BP. Most people don't even know how to figure that out and in addition, don't take into consideration their driving methods from one tank of gas to the next one, i.e., the speed at which they are driving, the length of a trip, how they accelerate, does more than one person drive the vehicle, etc.

It's almost virtually impossible to accurately figure out.

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by obxgal

Cash only ... too paranoid that the pump will have a fake reader on it.

Why are so many people paranoid about a reader when using their credit card???

We're all protected from that and if you aren't, you're with the wrong credit card company.

[janieb]

Originally Posted by Sable99

I try to use BP because I like their 'cash back" program. It doesn't hurt that I also get a better gas mileage with their gas. What really bugs me is when they charge a higher price when you use the BP card at the pump. Luckily, cash and card prices are the same at our local stations here in Michigan but I have noticed the different prices at other stations.

They may be the same in Adrian but they are not the same in the Detroit area, usually about a 10c per gallon difference.

[Suzi]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Got burned once using a credit card at a gas station. Tis a common practice at many gas stations to put a dollar amount hold ($50-75) on the card for several days. Have only used cash or debit card since (and debit rarely -- too paranoid that the pump will have a fake reader on it).

I pay cash as well for the very reason Redwitch stated: fake readers.

[Radioman41]

The credit card I use gives a 5% credit on gasoline purchases paid for at the pump. I'll try to find stations that don't charge more for credit card payments.

[HMLRHT1]

The cash can be money or debit card. Have used both stations at Colony and Pinellas and they both take debit card as a cash transaction or a credit card. You can do both at the pump.

[Vladimir]

I also use cash - as mentioned, don't trust the card readers. I'm used to a different price for cash vs credit and most states have this system in place. In NJ though an attendant still pumps the gas. BTW the other day Marathon at Pinealls gas was $3.11/gal while Shell at Colony was $3.28/gal - cash naturally.

[golf2140]

Originally Posted by LndLocked

I beg to differ .... they have had different prices for cash/credit for as long as I have been going there (apox 5 years)

No they have not. This change just started

[The Buckeyes]

Originally Posted by sunnyatlast

Competition of a new gas station (Marathon) that's closer to a few thousand residents will show the existing station owners that they do not have a captive customer base.

When consumers vote with their feet, the business they left either learns, or goes under.

Knowing how many people here use their golf cart as primary transportation, I don't see the threat to the household economy in having to spend 60 cents more for a tank of cart gas by using a credit card. What can a person buy with 60 cents besides a postage stamp?

Just a few quotes I have heard:
"A penny saved is not enough"
"A penny saved is a penny earned"
"Count your pennies...the dollars will take care of themselves!"
It is not what you can buy with 60 cents, it is the principle that 60 cents is in "your" pocket and not in the gas station cash register drawer.

[The Mountaineer]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

I love the idea of a lower price for cash. It makes perfect sense! There's no charge to the gas station for the use of a credit card. So why should cash customers pay the same price?

If you want the convenience of using a credit card, you should have to pay for it.

Criminals use "skimmers" to gather data from DEBIT cards used to buy gas. Then they come back weeks or months later, get the data provided by the skimmer, and create debit cards with your name on it and suck the money out of your bank account where you have the debit card.

Two guys who set up skimmers in Wal-Mart parking lots in the Southwest sucked $400,000 from debit card users' bank accounts in 9 months.

Crooks never run out of ways to cheat the honest people.