Petrol pump question

gunning84

So monday morning i was at the services at junction 14 on the m7 at mayfield, I went to the petrol pump that you can use your bank card at, put in my pin and the card was approved so filled the bike which came to €23 give or take, that was all grand until I checked my account balance today and all they took off me was €1, has this happened anyone or will they take the full amount in a day or two?

Soundman

I'd presume that the €1 would be a verification deposit and the charge for the cost of petrol will go through in a day or two as you feel it might.

BaronVon

gunning84 wrote: »

So monday morning i was at the services at junction 14 on the m7 at mayfield, I went to the petrol pump that you can use your bank card at, put in my pin and the card was approved so filled the bike which came to €23 give or take, that was all grand until I checked my account balance today and all they took off me was €1, has this happened anyone or will they take the full amount in a day or two?

Mods should probably move this to Bargain Alerts

gunning84

infacteh wrote: »

Mods should probably move this to Bargain Alerts

Yeah would be a good bargain alright, I'll be back with an oil tanker in the morningðŸ˜႒

Peanut2011

gunning84 wrote: »

So monday morning i was at the services at junction 14 on the m7 at mayfield, I went to the petrol pump that you can use your bank card at, put in my pin and the card was approved so filled the bike which came to €23 give or take, that was all grand until I checked my account balance today and all they took off me was €1, has this happened anyone or will they take the full amount in a day or two?

There was a scam in operation a while back where the pumps like that were targeted. The reason for that was to do with the way the machine operates. it checks for a €1 credit and then allows you to top up.

The scam worked on the pre-paid tickets where they only had a €1 balance and were filling in as much as they could.

Hopefully that was changed!

Del2005

gunning84 wrote: »

So monday morning i was at the services at junction 14 on the m7 at mayfield, I went to the petrol pump that you can use your bank card at, put in my pin and the card was approved so filled the bike which came to €23 give or take, that was all grand until I checked my account balance today and all they took off me was €1, has this happened anyone or will they take the full amount in a day or two?

Consider yourself lucky. Sometimes the machines will block the full amount the pump will dispense in one go which when fuel was cheap was €100 no idea what it is now.

Max Headroom

The statement shows the actual price of the petrol you bought.....the rest is tax......;)

jimgoose

This kind of thing is pretty standard when using credit and debit cards at all kinds of retail outlets. It's known in the trade as an Authorisation Hold, and may be small, as in this case, or not-quite-so-small.

gunning84

Yeah that sounds about right the rest been tax ... Well they came back for the rest today anyway so that clears that up, sound for the advice lads

Dan Jaman

These payment glitches are common enough. The best one recently was the pay-in ATM at my branch of BoI, where it credited me with twice the amount. This happened two weeks in a row. On each occasion it was a good couple of days before the system reconciled the figures and it's just as well I realised what was happening.
Not much point spending money they'll just want back.