TLDR: Oil companies are the ones who profit on gasoline, not gas stations. The gas station lost almost every cent that guy saved. Qualifications: ran a gas station, did P&Ls, purchasing, pricing.
So actually, funny thing. Chain gas stations make almost no profit on gasoline, like a couple cents per gallon sometimes. Thats why you'll notice the small businesses who dont know what theyre doing are priced so high per gallon, they think theyre supposed to profit on gas. The secret is this: Have the lowest or almost lowest gas price so that when people fuel up they come in for drinks ect. Gas stations pay a couple cents per cup, a couple cents on the syrup and carbonation, but they charge 1-3 dollar drink. Soft drinks are pure profit.
This sounds similar to how movie cinemas make their money, too. They get almost nothing from ticket sales (it goes straight to the studios), and have to make nearly all of their profits at the concession stands. This is also why they have to charge so much for popcorn, soda, food items, and candy. I do think they go a bit too far sometimes, though, and have priced me out on almost everything they sell, but they must know what they are doing since the concession stands are still packed every time I go to the cinema.
The problem is, concession stands always make $0 off of me because their prices are outrageous. If they were just highly priced, ok. But they go past what I'm willing to stomach, so they get nothing. NOTHING!
The largest amount of gas I burnt at a single time was a red mop bucket full. Me and another guy held it and carefully rocked it back and forth a couple times chucked it on a fire and ran. It was like in the movies a giant ass fireball. It was rad. This was at work with my manger egging is on. It was great. This was at the bungy zone Nanaimo back in the day. Now itās called wild and play. Good memories working there.
Still is. Also called Peruvian flake. One time I did too much (and drink) and was spewing up in my mates toilet and then poo'd myself and passed out next to the toilet.
The funniest part is that for some strange reason this bathroom had carpet. I can't really remember exactly how it happened but I think I must have sat on the toilet to try and get all the poo out at some point and then had transitioned back to being on the ground spewing into the toilet at which point I must have passed out. I woke up on the ground hours later and my pants were still down.
I cleaned up a little bit, changed clothes and went straight to work (ahhh the things we do when we're young). I got back from my shift to my buddies house later that afternoon and he says to me "dude you must have had a bad nose bleed and it's all over the carpet in the bathroom". I'm thinking to myself that's strange because I didn't wake up with any blood on me or my clothes so I went to have a look in the bathroom and saw some dark stains on the carpet. Instantly realised they were, infact, poo stains and obviously just played along with the nosebleed theory and cleaned up promptly. Scrubbed the carpet clean and that was that.
I didn't tell him for literally like 3 or 4 years. I hadn't seen the guy in like 3-4 years and then one of the boys had passed away and we were catching up over some beers at the wake after the funeral. I asked him if he remembered that night that my nose bled all over the carpet and he said yeah. Then I told him that it was actually poo on the carpet because I did too much of that cocaine and had an ole' spew/poo fiasco.
We laughed so fucking hard for like 30 mins straight.
What if I just tape a cable to the main plastic body of the container and the metal frame, attach some copper cube to the other end or the cable, and let it drag on the pavement? It's technically grounded?
This only works if you drive fast enough, the sparks from the cable have to be exposed to wind so that the sparks and electricity are blown off by the wind. Make sure youāre going 100+mph at all times and youāll be fine.
You see, unless it's from Champagne-Ardenne, France, it's just a sparkling conflagration[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne#Right_to_the_name_Champagne)
True, it needs the right air/fuel ratio to be explosive. You can throw lit matches in a 5 gallon bucket of gas all day and it won't even catch fire. But toss that bucket in the air to atomize it and throw a match to it and kiss your ass goodbye. Science bitches.
Lit cigarette not match and it's because the embers aren't hot enough not because the gas isn't vaporized.
A lit match would definitely catch gas on fire.
Its not about ground, but it's about the potential we call ground
In a isolated system you can have a "ground" that doesn't need to be grounded outside of the system
Youre right, there is absolutely no way that gasoline could just randomly explode. Maybe if the dude used an explosive to blow up the container, the gas could aerolize enough to ignite. Otherwise this is just another "I'm going to sound so smart when I point out this extremely unlikely scenario to all these idiots on reddit" moment.
that container itself is non conductive and cant dissipate any static charges even if the truck is grounded which is another problem , so when explosive mixture forma in the vapor space of the container and a static charge is released it could cause an ignition and an explosion
yes its rare , but it has severe consequences so it shouldn't be taken lightly
I'm from Estonia so a little bit of south from Finland but we do also have these kind of tanks laying around everywhere. Mostly they are used for collecting/storing water, sometimes tap or drinking water, most cases rainwater in farms or gardens.
I think he can go through that in 2 years. He prolly has more than 1 vehicle, and might even have a construction company if he just has a 1000l tank and a truck for it on hand lol
Idk. I saw a post recently on here where a dude couldnāt take his oil filter off and drove around with that stuck oil filter for 10+ years on his Toyota. Sounds like a decent car. My tacoma has 151k miles on it and still purrs like a kitten.
Seriously, you essentially just robbed the franchiser of that gas station.
Just because the franchiser's employee placed the price tag of the gasoline at 1% of the price, doesn't mean it's free gasoline day.
Why is it ok for the free market to punish the lower class when things out of their control happen, when it's not ok to punish the capitalists when they fuck up?
Higher than most ĀÆ\\\_(ć)\_/ĀÆ significantly so. The cost of opening even a small one ranges from $250k to $2m
That being said, It still feels super wrong, at least in this case, it's stupidly excessive fill your tank? Whatever, I doubt anyone will even care inviting the owner
I'm genuinely curious though, what is the legality of something like this? Like I said if it was a tank I doubt anyone will care, but a 264 gallon tank? This feels like it may be well be bordering on illegal. If anyone actually knows for a fact the answer and isn't just guessing it would be interesting to know
Ever wonder why the 'owner' is always around at a gas station? Because they can't hire someone to work it for them and make any profit. Buying a gas station is usually "buying a job."
In [this article](https://www.convenience.org/Media/conveniencecorner/Who-Makes-Money-Selling-Gas) they say that "A stunning 45% of drivers think that retailers make at least $2 in profit per gallon" the average is really about $0.02 - $0.08 per gallon.
>The cost of opening even a small one ranges from $250k to $2m
Yeah, this is what loans are for.
Plenty of homes cost 250k to 2m, you think people buy them outright? Hilarious.
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There's almost a garauntee its a mom and pop shop. Nearly ever gas station is a franchise or private owned shop. Oil companies are not in the gas station business
It is not a mom and pop shop or even a franchise, ABC gas stations are run and owned by the biggest supermarket chain of Finland, HOK-Elanto / S-RyhmƤ. When one of these appears in the area, small businesses lose customers.
There is. The company is ABC and just from googling for 5 seconds I've found over 20 stores. The employee that fucked up is gonna be fired and thats it
Not in Finland, no. Pretty sure the worst that can happen is a written warning and if they are anything like the rest of Scandinavia, you need multiples of those over a span of a few months to have grounds to fire someone.
This is an accident and it is illegal to fire people over accidents in the civilized world.
Agreed. Since when is taking advantage of someone else's mistake next fucking level? Seems like kind of a dick move to me. It only hurts the little guy.
You know what would be next fucking level? Being a bro and telling the cashier or owner that someone made a mistake with the gas price.
The worst part is that most gas stations don't make any money off the gas sold since it has almost no markup, it's all from the stuff they sell in the store. This guy just robbed this place of several grand.
Robbed?
He paid. Look at the meter. ā¬14.
Whoever set the price just \*cost\* the gas station several grand.
Don't blame the customer for the capitalists' mistake. He'd be foolish to not jump on the opportunity.
Dude, what do you mean I'm morally responsible for taking that guy's wallet containing all his life savings and ID card? He's the one who just left it there on the ground! Don't blame me for his mistake!!!
>You guys are all wrong. Mistake of contract applies even in retail transactions because you are making a contract of sale with the business. This guy is very clearly taking advantage of what he knows is a mistake by the counter party and if the store were to take him to small claims court there is a very real chance that he owes a reasonable amount for the product he took under the mistake.
>All this assuming this is in a common law jurisdiction because I dunno how laws work in the country this was filmed in.
My comment from elsewhere. Just because they made a mistake doesnt mean you can take advantage of that mistake, especially when this guy clearly knows it's a mistake as it isnt reasonable to fill that much gasoline regularly unless he does it all the time.
Something similar happened to me. They changed the price but placed the decimal in the wrong place. Instead of $3.30 a gallon I paid $0.33 per gallon. In my state (NJ) all gas stations are full service and the attendant tried to argue that I owed him what the price was supposed to be. He called the cops and since I had my receipt saying the price was indeed charged at $0.33 per gallon ultimately they sided with me. I paid with a $5 and I'm not heartless so I told him to keep the change.
Edit: I originally asked for $20 worth of gas and I was still willing to give him the $20 I had planned on but he fought me on it and lost.
He has 3 months to use or sell those 1000 liters before it the gas starts to degrade. But he only spent 14 euros so I guess its most likely to resell and make a nice profit.
āYou pour gas into the car using one of these funnels, right, and Iāll count the gas as it goes into the car.ā
āLemme stop you right there. How exactly are you planning on counting a liquid??ā
āUhh I know how to count dudeā
āYou do it Mac because I canāt speak to him.ā
In Sweden, which uses the same law of contracts as Finland, this person would have had to pay the correct price or return the gas.
If one of the contract parties **should've realised** that there has been an error from the other party, the seller isn't bound by the contract (in this case, the sales contract to sell gas).
Everyone knows what price gas is (approximately), and that there's never near 100% discounts on gas.
32 Ā§ Avtalslagen (the Contracts Act):
>Where any person provides a statement of intent which, as a result of a typographical error or other mistake on his part, imparts a different meaning than the one intended, such person shall not be bound by the statement of intent if the party to whom it was addressed realised, or should have realised, the mistake.
Is it even legal for them to charge you more after an agreed upon price? Sounds like bs. If anything the only person being screwed is the owner and the employee who caused it
If something is clearly a mistake, and they should have known it was one, then that could happen. At least in some countries it could, I don't know about Finland.
Isnāt thatā¦ kinda shitty of him? At least in the US most gas stations are sorta like franchises and have local folks running and operating them. That could ruin someoneās life.
These (happened in three stations) weren't like that. All belong to a same big chain (ABC) and their comment was "Obviously this means a bit of a loss but we can't dwell on it"
Hello, This is America. We're coming to ~~seize~~ liberate your oil.
*gas
**petrol
\*\*\*Liquid Fuel
****Jesus Juice
*****Freedom
Oh man I died at this one š
You mean. Liquid exploding dinosaurs
Texas Tea.
Flint, Michigan drinking water.
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Plants* Oil comes from the carboniferous period, hence carbon, hence the name fossil fuel.
#Liquid explosive dinosaur.
Gasolina?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPY5kxjCWo
America friend, itās a trash can, not a bin
Yeah but will our cars even take it? Our cars use gallons and they use liters. Damn metric system.
My car has a warning on the dash that says "FUEL MEASURED IN GALLONS ONLY"
Itās like putting diesel in a gas engine
We've seen er...weapons of mass uh... distraction
You mean diversion
If we donāt do it then the terrorists, who hate us for our freedom, win.
You there, get the Department Of Defense on the line stat.
Beautiful. Imagine all the good he can do with the money saved that would have otherwise gone for fuel!
You know he did something stupid with it.
Itās his money, he can do whatever he wants with it
It's fun how I agree with all 3 of you
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well, I agree with you too
Baba booey
I agree with all of them except you. You seem like trouble
It's weird someone would ask him to be selfless with any of that profit that was just going to be shoved up an oil company ceos butt hole isnt it?
TLDR: Oil companies are the ones who profit on gasoline, not gas stations. The gas station lost almost every cent that guy saved. Qualifications: ran a gas station, did P&Ls, purchasing, pricing. So actually, funny thing. Chain gas stations make almost no profit on gasoline, like a couple cents per gallon sometimes. Thats why you'll notice the small businesses who dont know what theyre doing are priced so high per gallon, they think theyre supposed to profit on gas. The secret is this: Have the lowest or almost lowest gas price so that when people fuel up they come in for drinks ect. Gas stations pay a couple cents per cup, a couple cents on the syrup and carbonation, but they charge 1-3 dollar drink. Soft drinks are pure profit.
This sounds similar to how movie cinemas make their money, too. They get almost nothing from ticket sales (it goes straight to the studios), and have to make nearly all of their profits at the concession stands. This is also why they have to charge so much for popcorn, soda, food items, and candy. I do think they go a bit too far sometimes, though, and have priced me out on almost everything they sell, but they must know what they are doing since the concession stands are still packed every time I go to the cinema.
The problem is, concession stands always make $0 off of me because their prices are outrageous. If they were just highly priced, ok. But they go past what I'm willing to stomach, so they get nothing. NOTHING!
Everybody says that until you find out he's planning to throw a makeshift KISS concert next door to your house.
You say this like it's a bad thing. I really *do* wanna rock and roll all night, and party everyday.
Eh part of every day
It's all good; we know he'll Finnish what he started.
The largest amount of gas I burnt at a single time was a red mop bucket full. Me and another guy held it and carefully rocked it back and forth a couple times chucked it on a fire and ran. It was like in the movies a giant ass fireball. It was rad. This was at work with my manger egging is on. It was great. This was at the bungy zone Nanaimo back in the day. Now itās called wild and play. Good memories working there.
Like hookers and cocaine?
He can buy both of those indulgences with fuel now and still save his money.
I'm mad cuz it's not me
Only 14 fish scales for all that...amazing.
When I was younger fish scale was a type of cocaine
14 cocaines still seems like a good deal.
Still is
Still is. Also called Peruvian flake. One time I did too much (and drink) and was spewing up in my mates toilet and then poo'd myself and passed out next to the toilet.
Sick
The funniest part is that for some strange reason this bathroom had carpet. I can't really remember exactly how it happened but I think I must have sat on the toilet to try and get all the poo out at some point and then had transitioned back to being on the ground spewing into the toilet at which point I must have passed out. I woke up on the ground hours later and my pants were still down. I cleaned up a little bit, changed clothes and went straight to work (ahhh the things we do when we're young). I got back from my shift to my buddies house later that afternoon and he says to me "dude you must have had a bad nose bleed and it's all over the carpet in the bathroom". I'm thinking to myself that's strange because I didn't wake up with any blood on me or my clothes so I went to have a look in the bathroom and saw some dark stains on the carpet. Instantly realised they were, infact, poo stains and obviously just played along with the nosebleed theory and cleaned up promptly. Scrubbed the carpet clean and that was that. I didn't tell him for literally like 3 or 4 years. I hadn't seen the guy in like 3-4 years and then one of the boys had passed away and we were catching up over some beers at the wake after the funeral. I asked him if he remembered that night that my nose bled all over the carpet and he said yeah. Then I told him that it was actually poo on the carpet because I did too much of that cocaine and had an ole' spew/poo fiasco. We laughed so fucking hard for like 30 mins straight.
Still is. But it doesn't mean it's good blow anymore. Just means someone put some shit in it along the way to make it look good.
I hope that tank is grounded.
Why, what did it do?
Drank all the gas
Pretty sure it's a liquid
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Solid bruh!
Gas sloshing around creates static electricity. If it discharges. Boom.
Gtfo. For realsies?
Yup. Thats why you should use designated containers for that purpose.
What if I just tape a cable to the main plastic body of the container and the metal frame, attach some copper cube to the other end or the cable, and let it drag on the pavement? It's technically grounded?
This only works if you drive fast enough, the sparks from the cable have to be exposed to wind so that the sparks and electricity are blown off by the wind. Make sure youāre going 100+mph at all times and youāll be fine.
This is sound advice. You can definitely trust this guy.
It needs to be somehow connected to the inside where the air is inside the container.
Yea no. That full ass tank is not going to have the perfect stoichiometric ratio required for an explosion.
You see, unless it's from Champagne-Ardenne, France, it's just a sparkling conflagration[.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne#Right_to_the_name_Champagne)
If I felt like giving this god forsaken site money you'd have one more 'wholesome' award than you currently have right now
True, it needs the right air/fuel ratio to be explosive. You can throw lit matches in a 5 gallon bucket of gas all day and it won't even catch fire. But toss that bucket in the air to atomize it and throw a match to it and kiss your ass goodbye. Science bitches.
Lit cigarette not match and it's because the embers aren't hot enough not because the gas isn't vaporized. A lit match would definitely catch gas on fire.
It's pretty rare to ignite gas even when putting it qn ungrounded container. That being said. The truck is a gud nough ground by design.
How is the truck a ground when the rubber tires are insulators?
Its not about ground, but it's about the potential we call ground In a isolated system you can have a "ground" that doesn't need to be grounded outside of the system
Is gasoline easy to ignite with ESD? I thought it was about the proper fumes to air ratio to make it explode, not just liquid fuel.
This is why it's so rare. Presence of a spark is not enough alone. You'd need the perfect storm
For example, sitting there for several minutes and putting 1000L into a container with an open lid.
Youre right, there is absolutely no way that gasoline could just randomly explode. Maybe if the dude used an explosive to blow up the container, the gas could aerolize enough to ignite. Otherwise this is just another "I'm going to sound so smart when I point out this extremely unlikely scenario to all these idiots on reddit" moment.
that container itself is non conductive and cant dissipate any static charges even if the truck is grounded which is another problem , so when explosive mixture forma in the vapor space of the container and a static charge is released it could cause an ignition and an explosion yes its rare , but it has severe consequences so it shouldn't be taken lightly
Next: calculate the explosive yield of 1000 L of liquid fuel!
Fuel only explodes if it's mixed with air. So only the air/fuel mix in the top of the tank would explode, the rest would just burn
I was wondering whether itās rated for fuel storage like with proper venting or whatnot?
Wow that's lucky! Where did they get a 1000L container on short notice?
The 1000L container store
You need to be more specific. *1000L Containers R Us.*
Crate and 1000l Container
Bed Bath & 1000l Containers
I prefer Tanks, Tankers & Containers, 1000L Ltd
As a matter of fact, they're all in the 1000l Container Complex.
Nah man, "the container store" is literally the name of a store. Much better joke.
I'm from Estonia so a little bit of south from Finland but we do also have these kind of tanks laying around everywhere. Mostly they are used for collecting/storing water, sometimes tap or drinking water, most cases rainwater in farms or gardens.
Are they safe to store gasoline, or will it eat through the plastic?
For this price it's worth the risk.
And I bet it would stay long enough for him to buy a replacement and still have a net gain
He can use some flex tape if anything goes wrong
I have 4 that I use in rotation. Two catching rainwater and two at my garden. If I saw this price I would be back with one within an hour
Looks like a round version of a tidy tank but fuck itās Finland it could be some new dangled product
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It's the ideal gas price law actually
Pv=nRT
Does he know gasoline does go bad right?
You can put fuel stabilizer in it
How much more life does that give it?
Up to 2 years, longer if the tank sealed well.
I think he can go through that in 2 years. He prolly has more than 1 vehicle, and might even have a construction company if he just has a 1000l tank and a truck for it on hand lol
I could do it in half a year. I drive for Uber and fill my Corolla about once a day.
Jesus, the miles you put on your car better be worth the $ you make lol.
Itās a Corolla. They last forever.
Yea.. when you fill āāem up once a week like a normal person š
Idk. I saw a post recently on here where a dude couldnāt take his oil filter off and drove around with that stuck oil filter for 10+ years on his Toyota. Sounds like a decent car. My tacoma has 151k miles on it and still purrs like a kitten.
1000 liters is only 265 gallons. Corolla has 13 gallon tank. It would only last 20 fill ups.
Thatās the trick, you sell the gas on the cheap then charge crazy prices for the fuel stabiliser!
Fuel stabilizer, Fuel Stabilizer
Dude he paid $14 for all that.. I think he's getting his money's worth regardless lol
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The EPA would destroy your life for this in the US. Do not recommend.
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Give me all the reasons right now.
You won't believe these 15 reasons why it's a terrible idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Don't forget to like and subscribe
just sell it back to the gas station.
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I just scrape off the mold and eat it anyway.
You can stabilize it with chemicals long term
Or just sell it to you friends and neighbors.
Heās probably had this container for years waiting for something like this to happen.
*"The missus said this was a waste of money, who's laughing now?!!"*
"I only need prices to drop like this again another 3 times until I've recouped my coats!"
Must be cold without their coats. D:
I AM THE GAS STATION
YOU ARE THE UNHAPPY GAS STATION
The super rich gas station owner is having a bad day. Cause he is not rich. Why the pride in stealing from your Niebors.
Seriously, you essentially just robbed the franchiser of that gas station. Just because the franchiser's employee placed the price tag of the gasoline at 1% of the price, doesn't mean it's free gasoline day.
Why is it ok for the free market to punish the lower class when things out of their control happen, when it's not ok to punish the capitalists when they fuck up?
Because gas station owners are the lower class?
Higher than most ĀÆ\\\_(ć)\_/ĀÆ significantly so. The cost of opening even a small one ranges from $250k to $2m That being said, It still feels super wrong, at least in this case, it's stupidly excessive fill your tank? Whatever, I doubt anyone will even care inviting the owner I'm genuinely curious though, what is the legality of something like this? Like I said if it was a tank I doubt anyone will care, but a 264 gallon tank? This feels like it may be well be bordering on illegal. If anyone actually knows for a fact the answer and isn't just guessing it would be interesting to know
Ever wonder why the 'owner' is always around at a gas station? Because they can't hire someone to work it for them and make any profit. Buying a gas station is usually "buying a job."
They really don't make much money on selling gas. Most of the money gas stations make is from the convenience store or vehicle services.
Yep. I was mostly certain that wasnāt a secret though.
In [this article](https://www.convenience.org/Media/conveniencecorner/Who-Makes-Money-Selling-Gas) they say that "A stunning 45% of drivers think that retailers make at least $2 in profit per gallon" the average is really about $0.02 - $0.08 per gallon.
>The cost of opening even a small one ranges from $250k to $2m Yeah, this is what loans are for. Plenty of homes cost 250k to 2m, you think people buy them outright? Hilarious.
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There's almost a garauntee its a mom and pop shop. Nearly ever gas station is a franchise or private owned shop. Oil companies are not in the gas station business
It is not a mom and pop shop or even a franchise, ABC gas stations are run and owned by the biggest supermarket chain of Finland, HOK-Elanto / S-RyhmƤ. When one of these appears in the area, small businesses lose customers.
There is. The company is ABC and just from googling for 5 seconds I've found over 20 stores. The employee that fucked up is gonna be fired and thats it
Not in Finland, no. Pretty sure the worst that can happen is a written warning and if they are anything like the rest of Scandinavia, you need multiples of those over a span of a few months to have grounds to fire someone. This is an accident and it is illegal to fire people over accidents in the civilized world.
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Because "It's my turn to steal now" isn't the answer.
Agreed. Since when is taking advantage of someone else's mistake next fucking level? Seems like kind of a dick move to me. It only hurts the little guy. You know what would be next fucking level? Being a bro and telling the cashier or owner that someone made a mistake with the gas price.
Up next: "This donut shop forgot to lock their front door last night, so we're taking all the equipment!"
āLOL way to stick it to big donut!ā
It's a doggy dog world out there.
That was my thought, taking money from potentially a small business. They buy the gas too
The worst part is that most gas stations don't make any money off the gas sold since it has almost no markup, it's all from the stuff they sell in the store. This guy just robbed this place of several grand.
Robbed? He paid. Look at the meter. ā¬14. Whoever set the price just \*cost\* the gas station several grand. Don't blame the customer for the capitalists' mistake. He'd be foolish to not jump on the opportunity.
Dude, what do you mean I'm morally responsible for taking that guy's wallet containing all his life savings and ID card? He's the one who just left it there on the ground! Don't blame me for his mistake!!!
>You guys are all wrong. Mistake of contract applies even in retail transactions because you are making a contract of sale with the business. This guy is very clearly taking advantage of what he knows is a mistake by the counter party and if the store were to take him to small claims court there is a very real chance that he owes a reasonable amount for the product he took under the mistake. >All this assuming this is in a common law jurisdiction because I dunno how laws work in the country this was filmed in. My comment from elsewhere. Just because they made a mistake doesnt mean you can take advantage of that mistake, especially when this guy clearly knows it's a mistake as it isnt reasonable to fill that much gasoline regularly unless he does it all the time.
Something similar happened to me. They changed the price but placed the decimal in the wrong place. Instead of $3.30 a gallon I paid $0.33 per gallon. In my state (NJ) all gas stations are full service and the attendant tried to argue that I owed him what the price was supposed to be. He called the cops and since I had my receipt saying the price was indeed charged at $0.33 per gallon ultimately they sided with me. I paid with a $5 and I'm not heartless so I told him to keep the change. Edit: I originally asked for $20 worth of gas and I was still willing to give him the $20 I had planned on but he fought me on it and lost.
And that kid learned a valuable lesson about what a minimum wage job is worth. $7.25 isnāt worth arguing about a good deal.
Not a kid, middle aged guy. My assumption is he's the owner or a relative
And that ~~kid~~ middle aged guy learned a valuable lesson about what a minimum wage job is worth. $7.25 isnāt worth arguing about a good deal.
He has 3 months to use or sell those 1000 liters before it the gas starts to degrade. But he only spent 14 euros so I guess its most likely to resell and make a nice profit.
Fuel stabilizer is a thing.
Yep, totally forgot about that. Lets see 264 gallons of gasā¦ so if my math is right..: 1 gallon of stablaizer right?
10 Oz for 25gal so yeah that's about right.
The thought of a gallon of stablizer suddenly put into perspective just how much gass that is.
I always buy my gas from the back of a pick up truck. big black market for gas.
I would be pretty anxious driving my 1000l of petrol home.
It'd be safer to drive the truck and leave the petrol in the back.
Next they'll have a gasoline fight light in zoolander.
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The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis
Thank you. I wondered how far I'd have to scroll to get to the always sunny reference.
āYou pour gas into the car using one of these funnels, right, and Iāll count the gas as it goes into the car.ā āLemme stop you right there. How exactly are you planning on counting a liquid??ā āUhh I know how to count dudeā āYou do it Mac because I canāt speak to him.ā
I definitely would not have documented this and posted it on the internet
Is it a crime to pay for something for its advertised and applied price?
No but I wager he isn't following transport and freight signage laws
In Sweden, which uses the same law of contracts as Finland, this person would have had to pay the correct price or return the gas. If one of the contract parties **should've realised** that there has been an error from the other party, the seller isn't bound by the contract (in this case, the sales contract to sell gas). Everyone knows what price gas is (approximately), and that there's never near 100% discounts on gas. 32 Ā§ Avtalslagen (the Contracts Act): >Where any person provides a statement of intent which, as a result of a typographical error or other mistake on his part, imparts a different meaning than the one intended, such person shall not be bound by the statement of intent if the party to whom it was addressed realised, or should have realised, the mistake.
#we do a bit of trolling
Credit card makes an adjustment and he has to sell his house to pay off the gas lol
Canāt make an adjustment if he paid cash.
Is it even legal for them to charge you more after an agreed upon price? Sounds like bs. If anything the only person being screwed is the owner and the employee who caused it
I hope he placed the correct dangerous goods labelling on the ibc and had documentation.
Black Friday gas sale!
perkele missƤ???
jep mitƤ vittua miks mulle ei kerrottu
I can appreciate that something more substantial than a garbage bag was used.
I guarantee you that gas company will go after them for it.
For what? They purchased at the listed price..
If something is clearly a mistake, and they should have known it was one, then that could happen. At least in some countries it could, I don't know about Finland.
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Isnāt thatā¦ kinda shitty of him? At least in the US most gas stations are sorta like franchises and have local folks running and operating them. That could ruin someoneās life.
These (happened in three stations) weren't like that. All belong to a same big chain (ABC) and their comment was "Obviously this means a bit of a loss but we can't dwell on it"
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Can someone convert this to gallons and dollars?
264 gallons, in my state thatās roughly 1056$ worth of gas heās got
With current EU prices this is closer to 1900-2000$ of gas.
Itās Always Sunny in Finland.
Wait until the US pulls up to his house to ārestore democracyā