Would it be to much to ask to have the the.9 business dropped on gasoline?Who gets that 60 or so dollars on a tankerload?Know of any other legal ripoffs?-Kevin

This is a “tradition” that goes back at least into the '50’s as gas has been priced this way since I was a little kid. Not sure how and where it started, but not likely to change anytime soon.

It isn’t a ripoff. You’r actually charged to the .9 decimal. It would only be a ripoff if they were charging to the even dollar.

No big deal. It could be .7 or .8 or 0 and the total result would be the same. The pump calculates the price. Interesting story I believe originated a hundred years ago in Chicago. The newspaper was 1 cent but people didn’t have a lot of pennies in their pockets. So the publisher convinced merc…

But…Walmart always gives me my penny change. If they did not, only then would I consider it a ripoff.

It would be a ripoff only if the price was something other than that advertised. Most people I know ignore the last almost-penny in the price. Even gasbuddy.com excludes it on their Heat Map, resulting in reporting a price that’s almost a penny low. If one station were to round the price up, even…

It’s not a rip off… it’s a MIND GAME. a legal mental manipulation. To this day I am amazed at the success of such mind games. Even my kids, who from the very start of asking and looking at prices, are completely suckered in to the lower dollar figure completely forgeting to add the pennies too…ev…

Yes I always round up,I respect people and dont like to see them manipulated,sometimes I believe that manipulation is immoral.Not always moral to take advantage,thats were I differ a lot on the legalese eg: state troopers sitting up speed traps at the bottom of long grades and making short yellow li…

In Mexico, the new “paper money” is being printed on some sort of amazingly tough plastic material that is almost indestructible…lasts ten or twenty times as long as printed paper… Gasoline has ALWAYS been sold with a price sign. The .9 cents lets retailers get $3.50/gallon but the sign says $3.49……

No, the sign says 3.499. I wonder why this gets so much attention, no real difference than everything at the grocery store being x.x9 or x.99 to make it seem cheaper. No cheating, nothing bogus, just an effort to make it seem a tiny bit cheaper.

The consumers eye never sees the .9 Retailers believe that a product priced at $3.49 will sell better than a product priced at $3.50…People will drive for MILES out of their way to save .01 a gallon on gas.

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kmccune May 16, 2012, 12:54pm 13

My wife will go miles out of the way to save a few cents and drive around with the yellow light on for a long ways,thanks for the input,a penny doesnt dupe me-Kevin

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