I was at the car wash the other day to clean the bugs and dirt off the side of my vehicle. I always felt that the time on the clock was running down faster than what I had available. Well, I decided to actually drop in the $3.50 for my 4 minutes and watch it click down. Sure enough with 15-seconds left it stopped. Just disappeared. Yes. Gone. I lost 15-seconds of time but paid for it.
I’ve figured I would calculate how much this is “burning” the people at the car wash. It works out to $0.22 cost per wash. There are 6 bays; meaning an extra $1.31 made by the car wash at the cost of the customer. There is a max possibility of 15 car washes per hour, per bay. That would be $3.30 extra made per bay. Times 6 bays $19.80. The car wash is open for 24 hours; so the potential is an extra $475.20 per day! That’s extreme and running at peak efficiency, however you get the idea. There is $475.20 that the customer is paying that isn’t getting the service for. This is the car wash in Grimsby, Ontario off of Barlett.
Then I read, and I can’t verify but I will be trying next time I fill up with gas this story..
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stop at 10 litres and check the price - read and you will understand…..
Cheating at the gas pumps
| This email was sent to the original receiver by a friend whose cousin is the Ridgetown, Ont. fire captain.
This is true. It happened to them three weeks ago somewhere in Ridgetown on our way to Kingston . The pump should have totaled @ $38.00 (and change). When the receipt was printed, and she checked it was $ 47.00 (and change). She got mad, went inside the store, asked for a calculator and let them do the math. They refunded her. She told them that if they cheat, they had better make it right. Normally, her husband would skip printing the receipt.. Not her
We saw on the news the other night that this is happening everywhere.
Brian pumped exactly one liter of gas. The price did not match the cost of one liter. It was higher. He went inside and complained, got a refund.
There is also a number on each pump that you can call and complain..
This is a true story, so read it carefully.
On March 24, 2009, I stopped at a gas station in Chatham . My truck’s gas gauge was on 1/4 of a tank. I use the regular grade, which was priced at $0.885 per liter. When my tank is at this point, it takes somewhere around 45 liters to fill it up. When the pump showed 45 liters had been pumped, I began to slow it down. Then, to my surprise, it went to 50, then 55. I even looked under my truck to see if it was being spilled. It was not. Then it showed 60 liters on the pump. It stopped at 62 liters. This was very strange to me, since my truck has only a 65 liter tank. I went on my way a little confused, then on the evening news I heard a report that 1 out of 10 gas stations had calibrated their pumps to show more gas had been pumped than a person actually got.
Here is how to check a pump to see if you are getting the right amount:
Whichever grade you are using, put EXACTLY 10 LITERS in your tank, then look at the dollar amount. If the dollar amount is not EXACTLY 10 times the price of the fuel you have chosen, then the pumps are rigged.
In my case, as I said, the mid-grade was $0.885 per liter; my dollar amount for 10 liters should have been $8.85 . I wish I had checked the pump. It doesn’t matter where you pump gas, please check the 10 liter price. If you do find a station that is cheating, contact the MTO, and direct your comments to the Commissioner, the info is on the gas pumps.
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