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Old 11-06-2008, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Clarks Summit, PA
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Anyone know why this place is charging over a dollar more than any other place in the area? It was at $3.91 for the longest time, shot down, and now its been at $3.58 for a couple weeks.
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Old 11-06-2008, 08:04 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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Their gas is ridiculously expensive. That's more than a dollar a gallon higher than everywhere else in the area. I don't know how they stay in business....especially with how hidden that station is from the road. I couldn't imagine that anyone would actually go there for gas.... unless they're just counting on out-of-town suckers coming off of the highway who need gas and don't know their way around...

But I would think $3.58 when everywhere else is in the $2.45 range should qualify as gouging.
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Old 11-06-2008, 08:23 AM
 
Location: Dallas, PA
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Their gas is ridiculously expensive. That's more than a dollar a gallon higher than everywhere else in the area. I don't know how they stay in business....especially with how hidden that station is from the road. I couldn't imagine that anyone would actually go there for gas.... unless they're just counting on out-of-town suckers coming off of the highway who need gas and don't know their way around...

But I would think $3.58 when everywhere else is in the $2.45 range should qualify as gouging.
That's CRAZY. Do they have a store attached to that gas station? We have clients who own a gas station/convenience store combo, and they tell us that they make a majority of their revenus from the store, not the gas. That is just odd though that their gas would be THAT much more expensive. Maybe they got slammed when gas was near $4 a gallon, now can't afford to keep their tanks stocked, and so are raising prices to a level in hopes people won't come there for gas?
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Old 11-06-2008, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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I was wondering that too. I drove by there the other day and thought I was reading the sign wrong. How can this place possibly stay in business when other places are charging over a dollar less? What gives here?
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Old 11-06-2008, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Clarks Summit, PA
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There is a store attached, and it's only a year or two old, but it is a horrible location, and barely visible from the road. There's also a small strip mall attached too, with the area's only ColdStone Ice Cream Store.
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Old 11-06-2008, 11:42 AM
 
Location: Louisville, KY
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a local station had the same problem. aparently the person that switched the sign forgot to change the 3 to a 2. could that be the same thing?

at the place here that did that the pumps had $2.XY while the road side sign said $3.XY...
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Old 11-06-2008, 11:59 AM
 
Location: NEPA
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Because there are some people that don't schedule enough time before work to fill the tank and upon leaving work realize they are never going to make it up the next hill, sit at the light, 'round the corner and make it to the lower priced station. And its not just me !
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Old 11-06-2008, 12:18 PM
 
Location: NE PA
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a local station had the same problem. aparently the person that switched the sign forgot to change the 3 to a 2. could that be the same thing?

at the place here that did that the pumps had $2.XY while the road side sign said $3.XY...

No, that's not the case with this station. When prices here were still over $3.00, they were over $4.00.
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Old 11-06-2008, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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No, that's not the case with this station. When prices here were still over $3.00, they were over $4.00.
The station at the corner of Moosic Street & Meadow Avenue (not far from House of China) is always outrageously expensive too I've noticed. I always get the best deals at the Sunoco station on the corner of Northampton & Wyoming Avenue in Edwardsville, near the Gateway Shopping Center. I'm guessing they're so low because they need to entice people to fuel up in Edwardsville after dark! LOL!
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Old 11-07-2008, 05:38 AM
 
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sounds like the station that's just off of Rte 80 at Blakeslee.....I drive that way to get my son every weekend, and always get a laugh that the station right off the highway is 40-50 cents higher a gallon than the Wawa that's a mile away at Blakeslee corners.....and even more of a laugh that it's always busy with travelers that just don't know any better...
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