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Why are NJ Gas Stations Excluded in Ads?

secondchoice said:
In 1977 while driving "cross country" around Somerset Kentucky, I kept on seeing signs for UFO. When I stopped to eat I asked the lady behind the cash register where was the flying saucer? She smiled and said "you aren't from around here" then told me that it was an "Unattended Fuel Outlet". I finally drove past it and there was just 2 pumps. Nothing else. No bathroom, no Coke or candy machines. I have no idea how you paid. I guess the concept never caught on.
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They have a few in Ohio. One of the farmer’s cooperatives has a handful around the more agricultural areas of the state.
 
secondchoice said:
She smiled and said "you aren't from around here" then told me that it was an "Unattended Fuel Outlet". I finally drove past it and there was just 2 pumps. Nothing else. No bathroom, no Coke or candy machines. I have no idea how you paid. I guess the concept never caught on.
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MFA Oil in Missouri has a few of those. Seems like I encountered one in Dallas County some years ago when I took the back roads to see my dad in Springfield. It had a couple pumps with a card reader between them. You swiped your card, entered your pump number, and filled up. It was pretty easy to use, but they were basic pumps that only offered regular unleaded.

AbrahamJSimpson said:
Absolutely no one in Jersey, the citizens of which know full well about how gas stations work in their little slice of the country, would be alienated by a commercial that happens to tout a service available elsewhere.
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Probably around 15 years ago, I was filling up at my local QuikTrip when a young lady at the pump next to me said, “Sir, this might sound funny, but I'm here to check out the Journalism School. I'm from New Jersey, and I don’t know how to operate this. Could you help?”

itsamike said:
New Jersey state law prohibits gas stations from selling fuel below their cost, in order to prevent predatory pricing and ensure fair competition.

Upside's model involves offering discounts on gas, which could potentially violate this law.
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Most states prohibit selling gas below cost. With most of those discount clubs, I'm told someone pays for it so it’s not discounted on paper. I believe they can also give discounts for cash so long as they don’t exceed the processing fees. Most gas stations sell the gas at roughly the break even point. The profit margin on gas is tiny. The stations just offer gas to get you into the store to buy the overpriced snacks and drinks.
 
In the early 1980's, I looked at buying a convince store in WV. Ten cents a gallon make up was average. I feel like I really lucked out not buying that business.
 
I think I made more from Upside than the stations that run their ad

This is what I did in May 2021
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How I made $100 an hour standing at a gas station handing out $5 bills

I have this talent for spotting loopholes and taking advantage of them.

GetUpside is an app to get deals at gas stations. I heard an ad for it and downloaded it. Then entered promo codes to save 50 cents a gallon or more at certain gas stations. It was successful for me when I used it on a drive from Las Vegas to New Jersey. I figured out how to maximize my bonuses.

GetUpside is aggressively trying to grow its customer base so they’re losing money recruiting people. I hear commercials on many radio stations across the country for GetUpside.

One day in May I got an offer from GetUpside promising me $20 per referral an unlimited amount of times. That’s huge! I did the math and found that it’s still lucrative if I paid people $5 to sign up. I went to a busy gas station dressed up in a suit and as soon as someone pulled up to a pump, I recruited them. Had them download GetUpside and put my referral code in, then I pumped their gas like I was a New Jersey gas attendant. Then I watched them upload the receipt in front of me. Upon which, I gave them $5. I would profit $15 per referral. I could do this 5-10 times an hour.

Then I watched the referrals pour in. I profited over $3000 before GetUpside suspended my account only after a few days. I had another $5000 stuck in the account that I couldn’t get, oh well, I was happy with making more than $3000 profit in 4 days.

I practically camped out at the gas station, I was there all day and night except when I had to take care of other business that paid me more. The employees liked me being there because word spread that I was handing out money to people filling gas, and some spent it in the store. Not a problem, I made another account but it didn’t have this promotion. I killed it. In addition to the $20 per referral, they also added one cent per gallon off for every gallon my referrals filled. At one point I had so many cents off from the referrals filling up themselves that I’d be paid $12 a gallon to fill gas. I filled my tank, two gas cans, and other people’s gas tanks to max it out at the 50 gallon limit.

This promo has been dead, and because of people like me they probably won’t offer it again. They probably just expected me to tell a few friends, not sign up almost everyone who filled gas with a credit card at that gas station. Of course I didn’t tell anyone about it until now.
 
In a tangential thought - I get a hoot out of those McDonald's radio spots heard in Vancouver and Victoria. They state everything in terms of their restaurants in "BC and Yukon". So - How many MickeyD's are in the Yukon? Two (in Whitehorse)!
 
DToTheJ said:
Wow @nd2023 wild stuff! Just sucks when they put the kibosh on all the fun, don't it?
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Last year I took advantage of a promotion from Chevron to save $1 a gallon per fill up for new members. As I drive 10000 miles a month, it saved me a lot of money. I just signed up with a new phone number every time I filled gas.
 
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