On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:31:02 GMT, "Rick Brandt"
> wrote:

>Harry Demidavicius wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:00:42 GMT, "Rick Brandt"
>> > wrote:
>> > Most places it is a fixed fee to bring the tank up to full. At my
>> > local HandyMan Hardware you pay before you even go out to the fill
>> > tank so there's no way they are only charging for what they put in.
>> >
>> You live in a strange Country.
>
>Honestly, you have places with a "meter" like buying gasoline? I can see that
>for a guy that delivers propane to fixed location tanks, but I have never seen
>any place that refills carry-ins that doesn't just have a scale to measure when
>the tank is full.
>
>I agree that it is a more logical way to sell the gas, but the average barbecue
>tank is empty or pretty darn close to it when it's refilled and having a metered
>fill-up system would seem a lot more expensive for the seller.
>
>I have also used our local U-Haul place and they do the same thing. Just charge
>10 bucks flat-fee to top off a tank.
>
We have the exchange system here - very expensive; Costco wants $10
for a refill. Most of us go and have the tank weighed before and
after the refill - that can be as low as $7 or as high as $8.

Harry