T&T: Assistance near Norfolk/Hampton Roads requested

[Jeffrey Siegel]

> I am new  to this site and don't wish to offend anybody but I  
> received the
> Waterway  Guide fuel price notice today and two hours later was in  
> front of
> Ocean  Marine.  The price indicate in Waterway Guide was $1.99 and the
> posted  price at Ocean Marine was $2.27.  When I called them on  
> this, they said
> "prices change" but I said I has just passed Atlantic Yacht Basin  
> and their
> price hadn't changed.  The phone went  dead.
>

To be fair, ActiveCaptain was showing $2.26 yesterday.  The difference  
is that anyone coming across the change can update it and share it  
with everyone else.

This morning ActiveCaptain shows $1.99 (the $0.10 discounts for BoatUS  
and volume was already documented).

There's no way that any company or person can keep up-to-date fuel  
prices on a consistent basis.  It has to come from all of us.  If more  
people updated the pricing that they find when purchasing fuel or  
noticing a new price, everyone would have pricing for planning and  
investigation as they traveled to other locations.  Listing prices on  
the T&T list is great but only reaches a couple of thousand trawler  
owners.  Our idea is to get all owners of all types of boats pooling  
the data together.  The data you enter has a much greater reach that  
way.


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Jeffrey Siegel
M/V aCappella
DeFever 53RPH
W1ACA/WDB4350
Castine, Maine

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