Gas for a penny a gallon due to glitch: do you buy?

[hoosierdoc]

Overnight, pumps on, software issue, price becomes $0.01/gal. Do you swarm there and get as much as possible, or do you respect the owner and not take advantage of the obvious error?

Gas Sells For One Penny Per Gallon At Woodstock Shell Station After Glitch « CBS Chicago

 

[K_W]

As hard as it would be to resist, the right thing to do is pay fair price.

 

[Trigger Time]

I think it's technically stealing. I'd stay away

 

[Stubz]

I'll start off saying I probably wouldn't swarm to the place.

but I can't agree with this:

As hard as it would be to resist, the right thing to do is pay fair price.

Until they start charging a "fair" price.

 

[bingley]

From the moral high ground of INGO, it's really easy to say we wouldn't take advantage. Let's see what happens when that happens to your gas pump.

Until they start charging a "fair" price.

Gas cost in the US is lower than elsewhere. There is only a limited amount of this stuff. China and India will buy up more and more petroleum. It's just going to get more and more expensive.

 

[jfed85]

I'm not afraid to admit it, I'd fill my truck up. Then I'd go home and get the wife's truck and fill it.

 

[ConcealedCarryCutie]

I wouldnt. Same principle as if a cashier gives you to much change, you give it back. Its about what the right thing to do is.

 

[jd4320t]

Nope. I like going to sleep knowing I didn't get one over on anyone that day.

 

[tv1217]

I'd run over there with a trunk packed full of Jerry cans, I have no shame.

 

[Snapdragon]

I wouldn't take advantage. It would be like stealing.

 

[mcolford]

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[Mikeshep1462]

Same thing happens in Marion as well.^

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Nope. Wouldn't do it. Right is right and stealing is stealing.

 

[hornadylnl]

10 out of 16 INGOers said they'd take the gas at a penny. Why am I not surprised. Funny that some will take advantage of a gas station and then complain about ammo flippers.

 

[Snapdragon]

INGO won't let me rep ya, Hornadylnl, but here's a .

 

[DoggyDaddy]

10 out of 16 INGOers said they'd take the gas at a penny. Why am I not surprised. Funny that some will take advantage of a gas station and then complain about ammo flippers.

So if an ammo flipper "screwed up" and charged you 18 bucks for a brick of .22 instead of $75, you would give him his extra 57 bucks?

 

[Throop210]

I hate crowds so count me out.

 

[melensdad]

10 out of 16 INGOers said they'd take the gas at a penny. Why am I not surprised. Funny that some will take advantage of a gas station and then complain about ammo flippers.

And I like the talk about how "they" take advantage of "us" by simply charging the market rate. But if you read/listen to this story, the station is an independently owned store. The money is not coming out of the pockets of some giant corporation, its coming out of the pockets of some guy who probably lives in the same town/community as where that station is located.

Independent gas station owners make very slim margins and most of them don't succeed in business over the long term. They are not like 'ammo flippers' in any way. They suffer when the chains lower the price, they make a few pennies when the chains around them raise. But they work for every penny they get and I know for fact that they don't make nearly as much as most here would seem to believe.

So, no, this is "not like stealing" as one person wrote. This "is stealing" from the pocket of your neighbor.

 

[chezuki]

No, unless it were a BP, then yes. I would consider it restitution for me having to overpay for shrimp.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

And I like the talk about how "they" take advantage of "us" by simply charging the market rate. But if you read/listen to this story, the station is an independently owned store. The money is not coming out of the pockets of some giant corporation, its coming out of the pockets of some guy who probably lives in the same town/community as where that station is located.

Independent gas station owners make very slim margins and most of them don't succeed in business over the long term. They are not like 'ammo flippers' in any way. They suffer when the chains lower the price, they make a few pennies when the chains around them raise. But they work for every penny they get and I know for fact that they don't make nearly as much as most here would seem to believe.

So, no, this is "not like stealing" as one person wrote. This "is stealing" from the pocket of your neighbor.

Is stealing from the pocket of a huge corporation morally superior to stealing from the pocket of your neighbor?