Re: Re: Priceline Gasoline and Groceries discontinued

From: Hemipower@aol.com
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 19:16:16 EDT


In a message dated 10/05/2000 5:21:46 PM EST, thumper72@lvcm.com writes:

<< The major oil companies (Texaco, Chevron, Etc.) were threatening Priceline
 with lawsuits. Priceline made their cards available to use at certain
 stations without permission of those stations and then proceeded to charge
 those staions a "transaction fee" everytime a Priceline card was used. I
 saw my station (that I manage) listed and played hell with them trying to
 get it taken off the list. I was all for the Priceline card until I saw a
 near thousand dollar charge for "transaction fees" on our monthly statement.
 
 Bill Boggs
 thumper72@lvcm.com
 http://www.lvcm.com/thumper/white_lightning.html
 "White Lightning"
 2001 CC Sport+ 4.7 Auto
 
 
 
> I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I just saw this morning that
> Priceline has discontinued its gasoline and grocery services. If any of
 you
> have outstanding purchases it will be refunded to the credit card it was
> originally purchased from. The message said to discontinue using the blue
> Priceline gas card. Damn, I was saving $.20/gallon through them.
>
> Ron
> 00 SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.92 LSD
> For modifications see my DML Profile
>
 
>>
Well, I guess the old saying of "no free lunch" still stands true.
Somebody has to pay for everything.<shrug>



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