What a racket. I haven’t lived in America for almost 15 years, and back then these stations were the disreputable ones you actively avoided unless you were coasting on empty. How good could a car wash “at the pump” even be?
Don’t think the wash is “at the pump”. The ones I’ve seen are like buy 6 gallons at the inflated price and you’ll get a code to enter at the drive through car wash around back. So you pay like $6 extra at the pump and you get a code for the $8-10 wash which isn’t horrible of you are fine with the drive through washes (personally think they do a horrible job and I end up doing I it a second time when I use them)
How does the car wash price work, why is it cheaper than without? Is the implication that the car wash is a separate charge all together? If so, pretty disingenuous to waste so much space with lower prices than to say "Car wash $20 & save 20¢ per gallon
It’s actually not cheaper because they tack on $10 or $20 or whatever the charge is for the car wash to the bottom of your bill after charging you the “lower” price for gas. Usually they’re good for a week or two and they’re hoping you’ll forget about it altogether but even if you do use the car wash, what they have charged you is 1000% more than the car wash costs them. It’s scammy all the way around, very typically American, sadly.
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“With car wash”
What a racket. I haven’t lived in America for almost 15 years, and back then these stations were the disreputable ones you actively avoided unless you were coasting on empty. How good could a car wash “at the pump” even be?
Don’t think the wash is “at the pump”. The ones I’ve seen are like buy 6 gallons at the inflated price and you’ll get a code to enter at the drive through car wash around back. So you pay like $6 extra at the pump and you get a code for the $8-10 wash which isn’t horrible of you are fine with the drive through washes (personally think they do a horrible job and I end up doing I it a second time when I use them)
How does the car wash price work, why is it cheaper than without? Is the implication that the car wash is a separate charge all together? If so, pretty disingenuous to waste so much space with lower prices than to say "Car wash $20 & save 20¢ per gallon
It’s actually not cheaper because they tack on $10 or $20 or whatever the charge is for the car wash to the bottom of your bill after charging you the “lower” price for gas. Usually they’re good for a week or two and they’re hoping you’ll forget about it altogether but even if you do use the car wash, what they have charged you is 1000% more than the car wash costs them. It’s scammy all the way around, very typically American, sadly.