One thing I also notice on the lake, some marinas have their gas pumps set to display the price of gas to 1/10 of a cent, yet their reciepts round to the next penny.
So when the pumps says they are charging you $4.099 per gallon they charge your card $4.10 per gallon.
Granted, if you're purchasing 100 gallons this amounts to only 10 cents (or 1 cent per 10 gallons), but they never seem to round down, do they?
Does anyone else notice this?
I mentioned it to one marina where I noticed it, and they mentioned that their credit card machine wasn't setup to accept costs in 1/10 of a cent increments so they round up the price of fuel on the credit card machine to make up for it. Hmm... this might make sense if they rounded up the total price to the next tenth of a cent, but it doesn't quite make sense to me. If they are going to always charge you to the nearest cent, then they should set their pumps to display that charge.
I wonder if they round up the total for cash customers too?
Automotive road side gas stations have no problems charging you the correct amount, so why do marina's on the lake have a problem?
Am I being too much of cheap yankee here?
