No you’re not evil, but rather retarded.
Retardation brings you there. lol
金正日 , you’re right, I’m not evil. It is “retardation” and “idiocy”
Also, I am masichistic 
**masochistic
can you give examples of this??? I find prices to be pretty fair up here.
Zellers has good prices on games and electronics… same with the source.
*AudioVision was a huge rip i must admit…
but East Winds is almost on par with big chain stores…
-i bought a flat screen from east winds that was cheaper then the brick!
Food is really well priced in town also. i find most places pretty good and well
priced… i had a full meal at the La Gondola it was $13.95
i got free bread, soup, big meal, and ice cream all for $13.95 and it
was really yummy. and for a cheaper dinner or lunch try West End…
its actually really good and really cheap… Rohdos is great too…
*The crest and cow bay cafe are REALLY over priced and only the later is
really worth the money… Prime Time is awesome too
jewellery is fair too, cooks and mansons are great. i got a pendant from cooks
that was the same price as in vancouver. i got a new seiko watch from mansons
and they matched and beat a price i found in the vancouver sun.
also, getting a watch battery changed in van cost $15 to $25, here in
rupert cooks was $10 and mansons was 7 i think.
hair cuts are about the same if not more in vancouver…
clothing on the other hand is more expensive… i think they jack up the
prices here… (they even write their own prices on the tags over top of
the price tags that come from the factory) but i think all the clothing
stores in town have %50 off sales like everyweek so i guess you save.
so, really… how is this town ripping everyone off??? i dont get it.
and when you put it in perspective, i dont think any of out retailers
are making huge profits… i think most of them are just getting by.
That makes a handful of people who don’t like Rupert - what an indictment!
Most gasoline retailers have zero control over their prices.
Their either sell on consignment or sell on a contract that bases their retail prices on a stadard rack price set by the refinery.
Sometimes you’ll notice that all the gas stations in one region (ie: in Rupert) have the exact same price. You’ll also notice that they all seem to change their prices at the same time. You can safely conclude that they all buy their gas from, or sell on consignment for, the same wholesaler or refinery.
ie: there’s no competition at the wholesale and refinery level. It has nothing to do with retail – they don’t get to set their prices.
Now some enterprising retailers will “discount” gas – ie: Shell in Terrace will give you back 3.5cents per litre. So ask yourself why they don’t just lower their prices by 3.5cents? They don’t get to set their own prices – it’s set by the refinery or wholesaler.
There’s no economic reason for price to be more expensive in Rupert than Terrace, other than it is, and since there’s no competition, what are you going to do about it?
Only when you get competition at the wholesale and refinery level can you have lower prices. That’s what happened in Ontario a little while back – it was actually cheaper to import gas from the UK than it was to buy it from the refinery down the road. The result was that retailers could buy from more than one wholesaler, and there was a price war.
So when you see places in BC that have different prices at different stations, it’s safe to conclude that it’s a place that isn’t “controlled” by just one wholesaler or refinery.
Bottom line – don’t blame the guy who owns the station.
Photo of me filling up in Terrace today:
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13.28 damn that must be quite the moped you’re filling up. My gas bill for my car is ~$70.00
Does that say 95.9???
It’s only cheaper cuz they’re having a gas war.
It’s $1.039 from PG to Fraser Lake
To those who think that gas prices are higher in Rupert because it’s 144 KMs further down the road: Why is it cheaper in Terrace than in Fraser Lake?
Jesus: it cost me $43 to gas up.
sounds like a few of us were in Terrace today, I was going to fill up on gas but what the hell, came home and did it.
the little fellow I caught on the side of the road.
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99.5 up and down Vancouver Island.
What really gets me is the fact that Gas in Vancouver includes a tax by the GVRD of 11 cents per litre, for the transit system, yet they are still able to provide cheaper gas than our local entrepreneurs . I know that Northwest fuels and Petro Canada have joined forces to provide gasoline in Prince Rupert. I know that it was announced specifically for marine gas; however, if they have any other “arrangements” this could really fix the prices to petro cans favor. I know that I will always fuel up in Terrace when I have a chance. I have to travel back and forth twice a week.
105.4 cents/L for regular along Willingdon Ave in Burnaby.
[quote]the little fellow I caught on the side of the road.
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So when are you going to export this little fellow?
When I go to training at BCIT, class starts at 7:30am… I get to school about 7:00, and the two gas stations at Willingdon and Canada Way will be like $0.90/L. Class gets out at 2:30, and I’m heading home, and the same two stations will be up to $1.08/L.
I’d never given it much thought before, but those stations have wildly varying prices based on the time of day.
Yeah I know, they change like every hour on average…
Yeah I guess it seems fitting that gas is cheaper in Terrace, since a lot of us love to shop there. I was there also and saw the $102.9 gas and saw on arrival home that ours is still $110.9… It has been that way for weeks now. I see where Safeway was even less in another post. I love shopping at CDN Tire/ Staples/ Walmart I often feel ripped off here by local merchants, but I don’t blame local gas stations as prices are set at head office.
Keep shopping out of town and buying gas out of town; maybe if we do it might send a signal and lower prices here. I love the selection and choices up there.
Everybody in every community complains about the “local merchants” to try and scam them into dropping their prices. Grow up. For the most part, they’re doing the best they can (natch, there are some rip-off artists) and all this posturing hasn’t changed them and won’t.
By the way, Astro, are you going to hang that squirrel on your wall or use it for native dancing?
oh I could not care less if they ever come down in price…
My shopping center is Terrace … I stocked up for winter incase roads get bad
Grocery Stores in town are fair priced but the rest I try not to deal with too much.
Stores like Marks, Zellers are fine other others no way…
I love to see your gas bill…