Would you have said anything?
April 11, 2008
Gas for 35 cents a gallon leads to traffic jam in Wilmington
WILMINGTON (AP) — Traffic was backed up and police were called to control the crowd after a Wilmington gas station accidentally set the pump price at 35 cents a gallon.
The Wilmington Star-News reported Friday that hundreds of drivers flooded a BP station for the cheap gas after the price dropped around 9 a.m. Thursday.
Station employee Shane Weller said the price for premium gasoline was supposed to be $3.35 a gallon. He complained that customers paid the cheaper price all day without saying a word.
It was all the extra traffic that led station employees to the mistake around 6 p.m. They found it after calling their district manager, looking for permission to changing the price as a way of stemming the flow of customers.
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Information from: The Star-News, http://starnewsonline.com
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Eric | April 12, 2008 at 5:45 pm
You would have thought some clerk would have seen traffic jams and put two and two together sometime earlier than 6 pm…
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Abbey | April 12, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Nope. Especially since it cost me $63 to fill up my van last night.
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Al Roethlisberger | April 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Having lived through a couple “gas crunches” so far, and seen “dueling gas stations” on opposite corners cut gas prices below wholesale just to drive traffic…. it’s hard to say if I would have said anything, especially if I assumed it was just a marketing gimmick.
If it wasn’t clear that it was a actual mistake, versus a loss leader, I may have just pumped the gas and counted myself lucky.
But if it were more clear that it was a misconfigured pump, yes, I would have said something.
Al