Your free AvGas fillup at Dodge Center MN (TOB) July Sunday 31, AM

"David Lesher" wrote in message
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What no one has broached here is how to CYA on future automagic gas
purchases.

Do these pumps issue a printed receipt?

Yes.

Is there some test you can run to be sure it's stopped charging you? (Such
as trying to pump again, and getting prompted for the CCard?)

Yes. Look for your receipt.

The funny thing is, whenever I pump from one of these self-serve pumps,
almost every time there's the previous customer's receipt dangling from the
printer. I always take my receipt, but apparently I'm one of the few, the
proud, the record keepers.

Can you get your credit card programmed to have a transaction dollar
limit?

IMHO, you'd have to have a card used only for buying gas for that to work.
However much gas you're buying, it's likely you use the card for any number
of other purchases that exceed the cost of the gas. This is true whether
you're buying gas for a Cub or a Citation.

Pete

"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
I had a gas pump that couldn't read my card. It said
something like "Slide card through slot quickly," which is
what I did on the second attempt. It still failed. Needing
gas, I ran the card through again, with another failure. I
gave up, went down the street and bought gas at the next
station, figuring the reader was bad. Apparently, the three
attempts looked suspicious, and they shut my card down with
their automatic fraud detection software. My wife and I
both had declines before we figured it out.

If it failed to read your card, how did it know it was YOUR card?

One of the first times I used a self-service avgas pump, the damn machine
just flat out would not accept my card (AMEX). I swiped it about six or
seven times and it kept coming back NOT VALID or something.

I was really starting to lose my temper (you folks DO realize I have a
temper, don't you? Good.) when I looked at the card and noticed...it was my
drivers license, not my AMEX card.

Opps!


--
Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

David Lesher wrote:
What no one has broached here is how to CYA on future automagic gas purchases.

Do these pumps issue a printed receipt?

The ones I've used do.

Is there some test you can run to be sure it's stopped charging you? (Such
as trying to pump again, and getting prompted for the CCard?)

I've done this at Sky Manor. The first prompt is an instruction to ground the
aircraft. I will hit enough buttons to display that prompt.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

There could be any number of reasons for a decline, Jay. You, as a
merchant, are not privy to the reason for the decline.

Quite true.

For you to make that wild-assed assumption about millions of people based
on eight little letters (or the equivalent numeric code).... sheesh.

My assumptions are based on years of experience, both in the hotel biz
as well as sitting on the board of directors of a credit union, with
decision-making authority over loan approvals. You would not believe
the level of debt that many of your fellow citizens are carrying.

My only point is this: Don't ever judge a book by its cover. The guy
you see driving the Lexus, flying the Baron, and living in the mansion
is not necessarily what you think he is. I've denied loans to people
like him because he didn't really own anything -- everything was
financed by others, and in actuality he didn't have a pot to pee in.

Conversely, the scruffy-looking dirt-bag driving a rusty old purple
Nissan pickup just *might* be okay!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Conversely, the scruffy-looking dirt-bag driving a rusty old purple
Nissan pickup just *might* be okay!

I doubt that.

Unless, *possibly*, there's a huge tank of gas sitting in the truck bed.

Conversely, the scruffy-looking dirt-bag driving a rusty old purple
Nissan pickup just *might* be okay!

I doubt that.

Unless, *possibly*, there's a huge tank of gas sitting in the truck bed.

Hee hee! Ahem.

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Peter R." wrote

There could be any number of reasons for a decline, Jay. You, as a
merchant, are not privy to the reason for the decline.

I'll go along with that, myself. I had a gas charge declined, but I don't
remember why, exactly. It was something to do with the company seeing
charges that made them think something suspicious was happening with the
card. Made me mad as h*ll, at first, but was easily fixed with a phone
call.
--
Jim in NC

Paul,
Keep us updated on the outcome. It is most likely that you would
not hear from the individual who used the pump after you. I agree that
it hardly cost you anything but your time to post here. At the
minimum, your experience will help others to be more careful in using
self service pump.
Years ago, I accidently left a barely used $50 copy card in the
copying machine. I had nobody but myself to blame for loss. I am
pretty sure that if I had known someone who did the same thing before,
I would have been more careful.
When we first started using the self sevice pump, at one time, we
forget to reset the meter and was quite concerned in seeing the meter
added up our purchase to the previous one. We went to talk to the FBO
and was told not to worry. He explained to us that although the meter
was not reset, the system had a way of recording the exact purchase.
We checked our credit card billing later and found that this was the
case.
Although most self service station let you enter the estimated
dollars or gallons that you want to purchase, I recall having used some
which did not offer this option. Again, most stations issued a
receipt but I have come across some that did not give any either. In
any case, we will be more careful when hanging up the pump.
Thank you for posting your experience here.

Hai Longworth

There could be any number of reasons for a decline, Jay. You, as a
merchant, are not privy to the reason for the decline.

I'll go along with that, myself. I had a gas charge declined, but I don't
remember why, exactly. It was something to do with the company seeing
charges that made them think something suspicious was happening with the
card. Made me mad as h*ll, at first, but was easily fixed with a phone
call.

It's kinda funny, I guess, but in some sort of a "paybacks are hell"
category we just this morning had our credit card declined for a gas fill up
at Grand Glaize Airport, in Missouri, during the mass departure from the
Cherokee Pilots Association fly-in!

I still haven't got to the bottom of it (we never carry a balance) but I
clearly must have caused a "ripple in The Force" by talking about this issue
on Usenet!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote

It's kinda funny, I guess, but in some sort of a "paybacks are hell"
category we just this morning had our credit card declined for a gas fill
up
at Grand Glaize Airport, in Missouri, during the mass departure from the
Cherokee Pilots Association fly-in!

I still haven't got to the bottom of it (we never carry a balance) but I
clearly must have caused a "ripple in The Force" by talking about this
issue
on Usenet!

"The Dark Side is strong, in this one"

Chuckle. Give them a call. They should be able to tell you exactly what
the problem was.
--
Jim in NC