I received this information from the "software maven" in our corporate IT division, who circulated it to the entire staff. I don't know if it's true, proceed with caution but it's worth checking out.
Usually when we buy fuel for our vehicles we ask either in terms of the amount of money we want to spend, RD$500 or 1,000 or 2,000 depending on our budget, or we say ?Fill it up?.
Next time you go to the gas station, ask the attendant instead for X gallons. You will see that THERE IS A DIFFERENCE - AT LEAST A QUARTER OF A TANK at the worst.
The trap is that when the attendant keys in a quantity in pesos, the central computer is programmed to pump ?gallons? of 800 ? 900 thousandths instead of 1,000 thousandths?so you get considerably less than what you pay for and even the attendant doesn?t know this.
This means that for every RD$1.00 you pay, you get only RD$0.90 of fuel at best, for a RD$2,000 fill-up you get a whole gallon less at today's premium gas prices!! Multiply by the many thousands of pesos drivers pay every day at every gas station??.the sky is the limit!!
HOW TO PREVENT IT? A simple check is to have them fill a 5, 10, or 20 gallon container , see what the pump meter reads?.if you ask for X gallons the software gets a warning in case it might be an official check and it pumps full gallons.
Apparently this is not just a local trick but is "built-in" to the software applications used in gas stations world-wide
Usually when we buy fuel for our vehicles we ask either in terms of the amount of money we want to spend, RD$500 or 1,000 or 2,000 depending on our budget, or we say ?Fill it up?.
Next time you go to the gas station, ask the attendant instead for X gallons. You will see that THERE IS A DIFFERENCE - AT LEAST A QUARTER OF A TANK at the worst.
The trap is that when the attendant keys in a quantity in pesos, the central computer is programmed to pump ?gallons? of 800 ? 900 thousandths instead of 1,000 thousandths?so you get considerably less than what you pay for and even the attendant doesn?t know this.
This means that for every RD$1.00 you pay, you get only RD$0.90 of fuel at best, for a RD$2,000 fill-up you get a whole gallon less at today's premium gas prices!! Multiply by the many thousands of pesos drivers pay every day at every gas station??.the sky is the limit!!
HOW TO PREVENT IT? A simple check is to have them fill a 5, 10, or 20 gallon container , see what the pump meter reads?.if you ask for X gallons the software gets a warning in case it might be an official check and it pumps full gallons.
Apparently this is not just a local trick but is "built-in" to the software applications used in gas stations world-wide