Bargain priced petrol

[TW]Fox;11894085 said:
On my way down to Lostwithiel the other day I passed a local petrol station selling both petrol and diesel. The prices advertised were as follows:

DIESEL 132
UNLEADED 11.9

It was an old sign clearly not geared to take todays petrol prices - I suspect the price for unleaded was actually 119p a litre. But the sign was clear - diesel was '132p' (No decimals) and petrol was '11.9p' with a decimal.

I wonder, legally, what would happen if you filled up and then queried the price :D
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I see what your getting at :p

It's not quite the same as an 'invitation to treat'

I suppose it relates to taxi's in the sense you would expected to pay for the goods/service you have received and them asking for x amount of not classed as past consideration.. I think you would be expected to expect to pay the 'going rate' if taken to court.
*shrug*


Although the real funnies/purpose of this thread (I'm assuming) is:

what If you just said 'nahh I'll leave it then'...

What are they instructed by their employer to do? :D
 
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if it's an obvious mistake, then they can ask for more. So in that case it's obviously a mistake. (price on pump, not sign)
However if it was say 105.9 but they meant 115.9. That is not obvious so you could pay 105.9. I think that's how it works. I might be wrong.
 
gareth.e said:
I suppose it relates to taxi's in the sense you would expected to pay for the goods/service you have received and them asking for x amount of not classed as past consideration.. I think you would be expected to expect to pay the 'going rate' if taken to court.
*shrug*
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I had a problem like this once. I was going from Bristol Centre to Bradley Stoke which is about 15 minutes. I jumped in the taxi which was not a black cab. I was pretty drunk, but when I got home the driver tried to charge me £30. Since I believed he was trying to take the michael, I told him i had £20 in my pocket and that was all he was getting. (This is all i had ever paid in the past)

He threatened to take me to the police station for avoiding payment, but I called his bluff knowing the time he would waste was not in his interest. He relented and let me go for £20.
 
You're definitely wrong AcidHell:p

There's really no "grey area" when it comes to this sort of thing
 
[TW]Fox;11894085 said:
I wonder, legally, what would happen if you filled up and then queried the price :D
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something along the lines of "you thought petrol was 11.9p? lol, get real mate"
 
Psycho Sonny said:
contract law states that the price advertised is an offer

there is no contract until you go to pay

i could advertise in a shop that mars bar is 30p but actually charge 50p at the till
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Wrong

Contract Law states the sign is an Invitation to Treat, not an Offer. If it was an Offer you could accept it and they will HAVE to let you have it at 11.9p.

The contract occurs when you're at the pump, seen the price and started to fill your fuel, the petrol station has given you their consideration.

You go in and pay, and give them your consideration. Then it is the end.

Also on another note, if there was a breach and they wanted the fuel back, thats ridiculous, you have taken the good, but not given the money. Under law they will fight for the money, not the fuel.
 
SpeedFreak said:
I had a problem like this once. I was going from Bristol Centre to Bradley Stoke which is about 15 minutes. I jumped in the taxi which was not a black cab. I was pretty drunk, but when I got home the driver tried to charge me £30. Since I believed he was trying to take the michael, I told him i had £20 in my pocket and that was all he was getting. (This is all i had ever paid in the past)

He threatened to take me to the police station for avoiding payment, but I called his bluff knowing the time he would waste was not in his interest. He relented and let me go for £20.
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You did the right thing :p

I would have done the same :D

taxi drivers annoy the hell out of me when they try to rip me off.
 
I saw one at 94.9, then realised the garage wasn't actually open, strange as Diesel was at 124.9, so i thought it was correct :(
 
So much for listening to the Governments advice about not to panic buy.

All stations are empty and rationing to emergency services. I am down to a 1/4 tank of diesel and praying I can find some tomorrow.
 
Third Opinion said:
All stations are empty and rationing to emergency services. I am down to a 1/4 tank of diesel and praying I can find some tomorrow.
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What? I just filled my tank an hour ago and there was no mention of rationing, no evidence of panic buying and no indication that the petrol station was going to run out.



howardcanning said:
I was paying 70 something pence per litre when I passed my test 3 and a half years ago :(
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It was more expensive than that 3 and a half years ago. It was more expensive than that when I passed my test over 5 years ago.
 
Had a lot of this in the shop I used to work in.

I know it's not the same as a petrol station, but occasionally, the price label on something would be wrong, and a customer, when told the actual price, would insist we had to charge the incorrect lower price. The truth is a shop has no obligation whatsoever to sell the customer anything.
 
Scuzi said:
What? I just filled my tank an hour ago and there was no mention of rationing, no evidence of panic buying and no indication that the petrol station was going to run out.





It was more expensive than that 3 and a half years ago. It was more expensive than that when I passed my test over 5 years ago.
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indeed, i just filled up at SHELL of all places and it was fine!
 
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