Why wont petrol stations tell you price of petrol over phone.?

Question

Why wont petrol stations tell you price of petrol over phone.?

Answer 1

b/c they dont' want you shopping around over the phone. i get this all the time with diesel

Answer 2

they dont have anyway to verify you might be one of their competiors so they wont tell you the price over the phone

Answer 3

They do not have time to continuously answer the phone. If they gave you the answer the phone would ring all day and night. They have to take care of the customers and whatever else their jobs might entail.

Answer 4

When I ran my own Mobil station, my competitors down the road would call to find out how much I was charging so that they could drop their price 1 penny lower.

It used to annoy the heck out of me!

Answer 5

Probably because they don't like being cussed at.

Answer 6

Many good reasons already given. But maybe I can add one more.

Even if they told you it wouldn't do any good. The price would probably go up by the time you got there.