{"id":462,"date":"2008-09-04T16:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grebfamily.us\/jasongreb.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2008-09-04T16:09:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T21:09:12","slug":"bait-and-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Bait and Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand fuel cost a lot these days. I do not understand why gas stations feel like they should charge a separate price for people paying by a credit or debit card. I pulled into the Chevron at 98 and Crystal Lake today. The sign said $3.63\/gallon. I take off my gas cap and swipe my card. I pull the hose out, and get ready to &#8220;choose&#8221; my type. That is when I look at the price and it says $3.68. And it says &#8220;Credit&#8221; next to it. So I promptly put the hose back, press Cancel and close my tank back up. I go down the street to another gas station that also says $3.63. There is not mention of the Credit\/Cash price, and the price doesn&#8217;t change on me. I fill up my tank and leave a happy customer. On the way to NC, I found this same thing at several different gas stations, and did the same thing&#8230; drove to a different gas station for the same price while still using my credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand fuel cost a lot these days. I do not understand why gas stations feel like they should charge a separate price for people paying by a credit or debit card. I pulled into the Chevron at 98 and Crystal Lake today. The sign said $3.63\/gallon. I take off my gas cap and swipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jasongreb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}