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- From: crow@waterloo.austin.ibm.com (David L. Crow)
- Newsgroups: tx.general
- Subject: Re: Gas scam in Austin? Just concerned with what I don't understand.
- Keywords: gas austin scam texaco
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192038.10837@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:20:38 GMT
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- In article <83513@ut-emx.uucp> ccdave@ut-emx.uucp (David Stewart) writes:
- >Has anyone else noticed that sometimes the price on the
- >gas pump is different than the price on the credit card
- >receipt while the total is still correct? This just
- >happened to me again and I made a note of what the pump
- >said so I could ask around and maybe find out why they are
- >doing it.
-
- I think that this is because the attendants are lazy and just keep
- hitting the "enter" key on the credit card thingie. This is instead
- of choosing the right grade of gasoline, etc. If you ever watch them,
- they just type in the sale amount and then hit the same key about
- six times.
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