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Article #215Re: Gas scam in Austin? Just concerned with what I don't understand.
From: David L. Crow
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:20
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:20
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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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