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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lastkidpicked" data-source="post: 172329" data-attributes="member: 237">Bill, your ideas are very good.But our buddy Guzzler has the right answer.  With the old, mechanical pumps if gas was $ 1.22  then you would have to set your pumps to $ .61 and double the amount on the face of the pump.Now, this was before electronic billing and electronic credit card machines.  If you are old enough you remember the Ka-CHING sound of the mechanical credit card imprinters.  Everything was mechanical so making the conversion was no problem.You would say to your customer,"Mr. Bennett, our pumps only go up to 99 cents, and the gas is $1.22, so I set the pump at 61 cents and we'll double the amount it shows at the end."After a few weeks, everybody got used to it.Now, on a side note.  Can you imagine being Jock Ewing back then?  You're already wealthy but then suddenly your product is so expensive that people couldn't even meter it!No wonder the Ewings were so rich!</blockquote>

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