Cash or Credit
I was just at my gas station. Pump said I could only get $150.00 of fuel on the credit card. other cards are lesser amounts. How does one by fuel while traveling? Cash only?
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rockhillmanor wrote:
When gas hit 6.00 a gallon. Sadly the year I went full time.:(
The pumps would shut off at 75.00. It is the 'gas station' that sets that limit not your personal credit card.
Filling up to limit and then running your card again to filling up again is the answer.
Whatever you do DO NOT leave your credit card with the attendant as many gas stations where asking customers to do, to have the pump activated to fill your tank completely.
Um, I believe you will find that it is the credit card company that sets the limit, but it varies from station to station. The credit card companies set the limit based upon the perceived risk of a particular station's location. At least that's what I've been told by both station managers and banks.
In any case, I agree 100% that you NEVER want to leave your card with the station person while you go pump. In fact, NEVER let your card out of your sight. There have been tons of cases of wait-staff at restaurants stealing your card number via little skimmer device while carrying your card back to the cash register. The Virginia State Trooper who was head of the unit that investigated credit card cases here told me he'd found a place where the card theft was so great the crooked waiter was met out in the parking lot on breaks where a runner would pick up the skimmer and give the waiter a new one so they could get the stolen cards into circulation before you managed to get back into your car and drive away.
I had one station once offer me the choice: leave my card at the register while pumping, or run a specified amount and no refund if I didn't put that much gas in. I said neither and went down the road to another station. If the station is at that high a risk of theft, I didn't feel comfortable standing alone beside the car pumping fuel.
