| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 12/27/2007 2:43:13 PM | You know OP, I agree with you, this has bugged me as well, how can you sell something at a price that is in theory not possible .....ie 109.9p
I just wish it was either 110p or 109p, how can you charge a price .9p when it is not in our currency..............seems sly and stupid to me....
I can remember very vaguely, my ex used to teach me how to work out the amount of petrol you got by converting litres back to gallons, it was something like
42.620 litres times by 4.545 = 9.3773377 gallons or something like that....
meaning there was 4.545 litres to a gallon..............(don't shoot me, did say I could only vaguely remember, it is rocket science you know)
We should all go into our local garage and ask to buy EXACTLY one litre, no more, no less.
Then we could all demand our 0.1 of a penny change
That'd show 'em, and and and and we should make a point of helping ourselves to a set of diesel gloves (even if we aren't buying diesel) and a large length of the hand-wipeing roll.
Then we could just finish off by beating up the cashier and torching the place.
...and don't forget to wish them a cheery "Merry Christmas" as you leave, it's only manners!
oh yeah forgot to say..................cargy.............you got me on that one, just picking myself up off the floor.................(such fun to be had on a first date) | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 12/28/2007 10:51:15 AM |
We should all go into our local garage and ask to buy EXACTLY one litre, no more, no less.
Then we could all demand our 0.1 of a penny change
I think that is a good idea!
Then we could just finish off by beating up the cashier and torching the place.
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 12/29/2007 4:48:29 AM | I have a spreadsheet in Google Docs (online office suite, basic but works from anywhere) that calculates my mileage - its simple really, just punch in the mileage on the odometer when I refuel (I always fill to the top of the tank) and the litres of fuel pumped (from the receipt)
the sheet just needs to divide the litres by 4.54609, subtract the mileage at the last refill from the present mileage, and divide the number of miles travelled by the number of gallons of fuel used
I enter the info on it whenever I fill up, as soon as possible afterwards. I can track whether the car's performing properly from the economy then... (interestingly, long night-time drives really DO use a lot more fuel than daytime journeys, probably due to the electrical load from the headlights )
(if you try to recreate this s/sheet remember to tell it to only report figures to 2 decimal places or you'll get massively detailed numbers..) | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 12/29/2007 5:26:25 AM | What interesting reading.
Someone posts an innocous thread..others try to belittle it. Somoene comes up with a a stupid idea..then another..and to top it all someone comes out with a spreadsheet solutuon!
I have taken on board everyting everyone has said incl buying the tampon and the conversion charts and i can only get to one conclusion.
Im going to fvcking shoot myself. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 12/29/2007 6:38:13 AM | Im going to fvcking shoot myself.
...or you could just douse yourself in petrol and strike a match?
It'd be more in keeping with the topic!
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 12/29/2007 6:41:56 AM | Cargy -
..or you could just douse yourself in petrol and strike a match?
Won't that be rather expensive at todays prices................ | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 6/4/2008 9:16:44 AM |
Someone posts an innocous thread..others try to belittle it. Somoene comes up with a a stupid idea..then another..and to top it all someone comes out with a spreadsheet solutuon!
I must admit, i am having fun reading this very thread.
The spreadsheet solution giving me a headache, but its good read. (I have too much time on my hands today, God help me)
Im going to fvcking shoot myself.
I hope he is still with us? | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 6/4/2008 10:47:11 AM | | The fact that petrol is just 25p a litre in Trinidad is what annoys me. The petrol companies are obviously still making a profit so the government really are creaming it in here! | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 6/5/2008 5:59:49 PM | Serves you right going for going to York, Msg 35!
I have to go to York in the morning and will be catching the train.
Im my one man effort to stop been been ripped off by big companies I will be getting on the train at the opposite end to the conductor and heading for the loo if I see him/her putting down their copy of yesterdays daily Scum and fleecing punters for tickets I should save at least 6.3222222222222222222222222(rec)!
I will keep you posted! | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 6/5/2008 7:36:10 PM | | I'm not sure what a pence is, but here in the states petro is priced at .9 cents. Probably the same thing. Also, my sales tax where I live is 8.63 cents on the dollar. I think they just round up the final amount. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 7/20/2008 3:32:26 AM | I think i'd rather be one of the pensioner.. LOL
Free bus pass everywhere in the country.
No need to worry about .9p petrol thingy malarkey. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 7/20/2008 3:46:05 AM | the reasoning behind the .9p, 9p 99p is that 9 is the pulling number its not a whole so the public think they are getting a great deal,
buy a sofa for 499 wow its under 500 petrol 132.9 ok its under 133 expencive but its under the whole so it a good deal. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 7/20/2008 5:16:33 AM | I understand that the Goverment takes in tax approx. 66% of what you pay at the pump!
There is a nasty little surcharge of 2p per litre due in October but the Chancellor has graciously decided to postpone this increase until March 2009. Big deal. I'm not big on maths but even I can see that when the price of petrol goes up, so does the Government's tax take. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 7/20/2008 5:48:33 AM |
We should all go into our local garage and ask to buy EXACTLY one litre, no more, no less.
Ah, if only it were that simple.
You will find somewhere on all forecourts a disclaimer saying there is a minimum ammount of fuel you can dispense, which is a lot more than one litre. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 7/20/2008 10:19:16 AM | It is because they do not sell in whole litres. For example you don't have to have 2 litres you can have 1.99 litres and the price is determined by exactly what you put in and when you buy products by volume it can be sold in fractions of cost. It is why power and gas and even telephone calls can be fractions of a pence. It is for the benefit of the petrol companies, obviously. The idea is if it was a rigid price for an ammount say £1 for 1 litre and you fill your car with 1.49 litres they would be unable to charge you for the .49 of a litre. That is why there is a fraction in price. The law does state that they have to round down for 0.49 of a pence. The idea being that on average neither the person filling up or the petrol station loses out.
This is what I was told by an Esso executive at a very boring dinner so should be right but I was very bored and uninterested. | |
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| .9p .. How is this legal ?
Posted: 7/20/2008 1:53:41 PM | It is because they do not sell in whole litres. For example you don't have to have 2 litres you can have 1.99 litres and the price is determined by exactly what you put in and when you buy products by volume it can be sold in fractions of cost. It is why power and gas and even telephone calls can be fractions of a pence. It is for the benefit of the petrol companies, obviously. The idea is if it was a rigid price for an ammount say £1 for 1 litre and you fill your car with 1.49 litres they would be unable to charge you for the .49 of a litre. That is why there is a fraction in price. The law does state that they have to round down for 0.49 of a pence. The idea being that on average neither the person filling up or the petrol station loses out.
Exactly.
Nobody buys exact one litre. And no matter what the price is you can always buy exactly 10 litres. | |
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this evening it was up to 115! Now come on! that is a jump of 3 whole pence!!!!!! what is going on?
