Gaspy - multiple recent price updates from one person.

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#311947 29-Feb-2024 11:17

I've just been looking on Gaspy to see where the best price is along my route to work and I see multiple last reported by reports from one person, Muzzillion. Theses reports are apparently recent and some locations are quite cloase to each other. However there's one showing as current 5 minutes ago and another 3 minutes ago but the locations are 50 km apart.

I'm suspicious.

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#3201467 29-Feb-2024 11:27

There could always be a chance of illegitimacy, just comes with a "community-supported" app.

However, the same person could've been told about gas prices by friends & family and simply updated the app accordingly.

If you need fuel, just head to the cheapest you see on the app and if the prices are wrong, report the user. Gaspy has zero tolerance for bad behavior on the app.

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#3201553 29-Feb-2024 13:11

This happens all too frequently and has for quite a while. I take Gaspy prices with a grain of salt now. The other day I saw a price changed to 15 cents more than any other petrol station in the area. Clearly wrong... it changed back again within a couple of hours but I want to go to a petrol station and know that the gaspy price is correct before I get there otherwise its wasting time and effort.

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#3201574 29-Feb-2024 13:32

I thought you had to be within a certain radius of the station before you could update the price there?

I take it the GasSpy app doesn't look to see if the location is being spoofed?

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#3206289 14-Mar-2024 11:32

Bee:

This happens all too frequently and has for quite a while. I take Gaspy prices with a grain of salt now. The other day I saw a price changed to 15 cents more than any other petrol station in the area. Clearly wrong... it changed back again within a couple of hours but I want to go to a petrol station and know that the gaspy price is correct before I get there otherwise its wasting time and effort.

Sometimes errors,

Sometimes petrol companies trying it on,

Palm Nth has two BPs at opposite ends of town,

Prices for 98 often vary between them, and yes, have seen a 15c difference.

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#3206292 14-Mar-2024 11:44

And there is the idiots that put in the post discount prices at places in there.

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#3206359 14-Mar-2024 15:37

You can do two long distance updates and two long distance confirms every 12 hours. A long distance is between 551m and 50km of your location. I guess that is what he is doing. I still maintain that this function should be disabled as half of the users just abuse it. There's a spy in the Waikato that loves to update the question marks with the last price then confirm it for the 90 points.

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#3206365 14-Mar-2024 15:45

Whoever is ruining it for all seriously needs a new hobby.

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#3206372 14-Mar-2024 16:11

Technofreak:

I've just been looking on Gaspy to see where the best price is along my route to work and I see multiple last reported by reports from one person, Muzzillion. Theses reports are apparently recent and some locations are quite cloase to each other. However there's one showing as current 5 minutes ago and another 3 minutes ago but the locations are 50 km apart.

I'm suspicious.

It is possible they only updated it once they got home. So they had driven past those places, saw the price, then updated it once they got home and had the time to do the updates. I only say that because that is what I have previously done, where I have confirmed if a price is right or not. But I don't think the app now allows you to do this unless you are in a range. Are the prices they have entered wrong? The number of price confirmations should help confirm if it is correct or not. It woudl be good if they had a price history so people can see what it was previously and when.

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#3206393 14-Mar-2024 17:33

mattwnz:The number of price confirmations should help confirm if it is correct or not.

With the amount of users the app now has, most of them just drive past and confirm the price with out checking the pump. It used to be about finding the price changes, now it seems to be just about confirming all prices and getting to the top of the leader board.

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#3206406 14-Mar-2024 18:32

HelloThere:
mattwnz:The number of price confirmations should help confirm if it is correct or not.

With the amount of users the app now has, most of them just drive past and confirm the price with out checking the pump. It used to be about finding the price changes, now it seems to be just about confirming all prices and getting to the top of the leader board.

IMO due to the issues over pricing which got the Commerce Commission involved, maybe they should require petrol companies to have an API that provides all the prices at the different petrol stations, so it can then integrated with an app. Similar to what the Grocer app is doing with supermarket prices, where they seem to be scraping the websites for this pricing data.

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#3206408 14-Mar-2024 18:33

This is one thing the Australian state governments do well - there's laws requiring individual servos to notify their prices electronically to the government, who publishes an API to retrieve prices for all service stations in the state or territory - coupled with this, once they've notified their price they can't change it until the next day.

Makes petrol price apps so much nicer! Petty is my favourite so far.

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#3206412 14-Mar-2024 19:12

Android phones allow you to fake your gps location.

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#3206420 14-Mar-2024 19:52

Im just baffled it still hasn't got a clickable table, that shows a rolling 7day trend of changes.

It's not like they don't get it from users. Down to the hour probably even.

That would help find errors and bust the ones spiking just before the discount days.

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#3206532 15-Mar-2024 10:00

richms:

And there is the idiots that put in the post discount prices at places in there.

I've actually been one of those idiots and then a few minutes later amended the reported price. It would look dodgy.

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