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Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:01 pm
by CBenson
gettingthere wrote:Every single gas price application uses the cash price. It's the standard unless credit prices are specified.
But, I didn't know this as I never used another gas price application. In the absence of this information or guidance from waze, putting the highest price was my natural inclination. Based on this thread, I will enter the cash price. But, most aren't going to see this thread. I simply don't think it going to work well to rely on people knowing the "standard."
gettingthere wrote:Again, please update prices using the cash price. All Wazers need to be using the same data entry process or this new gas price comparison functionality is totally useless since you cannot compare between stations effectively. It's bad enough that prices are already showing for grades of fuel that are not available (eg. Diesel).
I totally agree. Most prices currently come from the third party source. It seem to me to be highly beneficial for waze to simply state that the prices that are shown from the external source are cash prices and that they should be updated by wazers with the cash price.
gettingthere wrote:If you pay with credit card you know you will be paying more in many cases. You surely already know which brands around you charge extra for credit.
To be honest, I can't remember the last time I was at a station that charged extra for credit. No that's not right, the last time was the second time I used waze to find a gas station. But before that I can't remember. So I haven't really given cash prices any thought until waze added the feature.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:43 am
by CBenson
kentsmith9 wrote:
failsafe wrote:I will continue to enter in the credit prices...By where I live, cash and credit are the same anyway.
If true then you are actually entering the cash price which is what Waze is asking you to do.
Unfortunately, waze itself has never asked me to enter cash prices. It would be better for the consistent policy to be announced by waze.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:08 am
by CBenson
Great, consistency is key. The more people we can get to the same thing the better. Thanks for the input, Ori.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:10 am
by CBenson
I don't think that the argument is that Gas Buddy uses cash prices, but rather that the third party source data that waze is using is cash prices. We need to be consistent, thus should use cash prices.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:01 pm
by CBenson
xteejx wrote:If the price displayed is for cash, and all signage says that, why would anyone be disputing this? Seems pretty obvious to me which one is the one to use.

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What's the point of continuing to incite the argument here? There are plenty of good arguments to dispute this. The point is we all need to do the same thing and waze has indicated that we should use cash. Why do you want all the reasons reiterated as to why I would choose credit if I was waze?

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:12 pm
by CBenson
Ahh. Glad I asked rather than answering the rhetorical question.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:20 pm
by CBenson
Sure enough. But we should still be consistent and enter cash as that's what waze is using.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:47 pm
by CBenson
Here in Maryland, stations must post on the big sign you can see from the road the lowest price that they offer (i.e. the cash price). Not really sure what the "legal price" means.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:25 am
by CBenson
Waze was feeding the same 3rd party data back when they told us to use cash prices. I don't think waze thinks the third party data is credit data.

Re: Reporting Gas prices - cash or credit?

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:00 pm
by CBenson
Unholy wrote:Hi guys and gals,

We will add a note the "update gas price menu" that it should be cash only.
I'm not sure we'll be able to add it to our next release, but it will be added to one of the next releases.


Thanks,

Ori
So was this ever done? I can't remember seeing it.