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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cash-payers: take note - (nf)
Message-ID: <3060@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 23:03:19 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.3060
Posted: Fri Apr 13 23:03:19 1984
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Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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fortune!rpw3    Apr 13 19:57:00 1984

Worse still, there is a Chevron station on El Camino Real in San Mateo
just south of Hwy 92 (yes, I'm MAD!) that posts "cash" prices on big
signs by the road (o.k.), has the pumps charge you credit card or
"normal" rates on the meter (still o.k. so far, the little computer
in the cash register prints the meter reading on the credit slip and
the "cash discount" is rung up separately), BUT...

...after dark, this "24 hour" station charges you credit-card rates
for cash fill-em-up purchases. (Bogus "cost of security"???) There
is NO sign that tells you that. You don't know 'til you go to pay.

Rob Warnock

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