Credit card pricing for gasoline purchases

On Feb 25, 1:15 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> In a recent thread about taxi fares, it was said that the cash price
> and credit price must be the same.
>
> I just got gasoline (in NJ) the credit price as 7c/gal more.  I
> thought that was not allowed.
>
> (Unfortunately for me I was low on cash and had to pay the extra.)

It's not allowed. Contact the relevant state office.

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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@> wrote:

> On Feb 25, 1:15 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > In a recent thread about taxi fares, it was said that the cash price
> > and credit price must be the same.
> >
> > I just got gasoline (in NJ) the credit price as 7c/gal more.  I
> > thought that was not allowed.
> >
> > (Unfortunately for me I was low on cash and had to pay the extra.)
>
> It's not allowed. Contact the relevant state office.

They're not allowed to charge more for credit, but AFAIK they can give
discounts for cash.

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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:57:55 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@> wrote:

>On Feb 25, 1:15 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> In a recent thread about taxi fares, it was said that the cash price
>> and credit price must be the same.
>>
>> I just got gasoline (in NJ) the credit price as 7c/gal more.  I
>> thought that was not allowed.
>>
>> (Unfortunately for me I was low on cash and had to pay the extra.)
>
>It's not allowed. Contact the relevant state office.

Since this dates back to at least 1991 if not 1986 when I was
commuting between Bloomfield, NJ and Somerset, NJ I am 99 percent
certain it is legal. They are giving a discount for cash and it was
well enough advertised that if it was illegal, action would have been
taken long ago.

Clark Morris

On Feb 25, 9:22 pm, Clark F Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:57:55 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels"
>
> <gramma...@> wrote:
> >On Feb 25, 1:15 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> >> In a recent thread about taxi fares, it was said that the cash price
> >> and credit price must be the same.
>
> >> I just got gasoline (in NJ) the credit price as 7c/gal more.  I
> >> thought that was not allowed.
>
> >> (Unfortunately for me I was low on cash and had to pay the extra.)
>
> >It's not allowed. Contact the relevant state office.
>
> Since this dates back to at least 1991 if not 1986 when I was
> commuting between Bloomfield, NJ and Somerset, NJ I am 99 percent
> certain it is legal.  They are giving a discount for cash and it was
> well enough advertised that if it was illegal, action would have been
> taken long ago.

So it was legal 15-20 years ago. What's that got to do with today?

The northernmost gas station on Tonnelle (1-9) northbound south of NJ
3 had the 5c discount sign painted huge on its wall until maybe a year
ago.