FUEL PUMP ADDING THE 0.01pence !!! ???
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I thought the days of the fuel pumps adding that extra penny after self serving fuel had long gone.
My last two fuel ups were to an exact amount of £20, I ensured to take my finger off the nozzle trigger, as soon as I get to the cashier...... the mysterous 0.01p is charged. Is this down to faulty (or too accurate a) fuel measuring or what? The Fuel Station was not interested in my comment about it.
Its not the penny but the principle - Can I complain and who to?
My last two fuel ups were to an exact amount of £20, I ensured to take my finger off the nozzle trigger, as soon as I get to the cashier...... the mysterous 0.01p is charged. Is this down to faulty (or too accurate a) fuel measuring or what? The Fuel Station was not interested in my comment about it.
Its not the penny but the principle - Can I complain and who to?
PARTYANNA said:
I thought the days of the fuel pumps adding that extra penny after self serving fuel had long gone.
My last two fuel ups were to an exact amount of £20, I ensured to take my finger off the nozzle trigger, as soon as I get to the cashier...... the mysterous 0.01p is charged. Is this down to faulty (or too accurate a) fuel measuring or what? The Fuel Station was not interested in my comment about it.
Its not the penny but the principle - Can I complain and who to?
Unfortunately, I believe they have this included in the margin of error. Getting quite common place now, and certainly not good form.My last two fuel ups were to an exact amount of £20, I ensured to take my finger off the nozzle trigger, as soon as I get to the cashier...... the mysterous 0.01p is charged. Is this down to faulty (or too accurate a) fuel measuring or what? The Fuel Station was not interested in my comment about it.
Its not the penny but the principle - Can I complain and who to?
There is a rational explanation - On the basis of purchasing a single litre (if they actually let you) at 123.9p/l the sale is always rounded up to the nearest 1p so it should in theory show the sale as £1.24. The number of litres in the sale is rounded down to the nearest hundreth (10ml) but is more accurate so it could actually be at 1.009 which would easily account for the extra 1p (it would only take .2p to tip it over from £1.24 to £1.25. .2p is equivalent to 1.6ml - way below the 10ml accuracy of the pump reading. Notice that the last digit of the litres is blanked - the pumps are accurate enough to measure the 1.6ml so it shouldn't be a big surprise. Now, if the sale read more than 1.25 the conspiracy theory would stand.
As a small point you could put 10litres in instead and improve the visible accuracy of your reading - and I'm pretty sure you'll find that it shows 12.4(something) and not 12.5(something) as the sale...
In essence the whole issue is a rounding error, the price is rounded up the fuel delivery is rounded down.
As a small point you could put 10litres in instead and improve the visible accuracy of your reading - and I'm pretty sure you'll find that it shows 12.4(something) and not 12.5(something) as the sale...
In essence the whole issue is a rounding error, the price is rounded up the fuel delivery is rounded down.
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