GasBuddy: Find & Pay for Gas 17+

I’ve been using GasBuddy for a long time and more often now because of the crazy gas prices. I haven’t use every feature on the app. However, I have a recommendation because of an issue I ran into today and I want to say it’s happened before. Instead of listing gas prices as Regular, Mid-Grade, and Premium can you change it to the associated numbers? Ofcourse, I’m not saying issues won’t happen and prices could be wrong depending on who’s reporting (pretty sure the owner reported once because the price was significantly higher). Which brings me to this…I was just at a gas station reporting Premium gas at 3.99. I’m fairly certain that the vast majority of the United States..like myself.. .consider premium to be 91 or 93. Well, the reporting for this station only listed regular (3.39) and premium (3.99). Sounds fair right? Well, that 3.99 price was for 89 and their price for 93 (they didn’t have 91, which happens sometimes) was 4.49. Given that I was low on gas I was forced to bite the bullet and put enough in to get me to the next one when I had time to stop.

Just trying to help users not run into issues later down the road and helps make it more accurate if we can list every option and not give any room for confusion when reporting prices, whether it be by users or owners of these gas stations.

I have been a GasBuddy member since the app first appeared on the AppStore. I also had signed up for the GasBuddy card as one of the pilot customers. I loved it but do not use the card anymore because of issues I had years ago with promos. I never got them so I stopped using the card. This was and is a good idea (to crowdsource gas prices). I loved the addition of other features, especially of keeping up with fill-ups. Every time I fill up at a gas station, I record it in the vehicle section of My Car. My most pressing issue is that it has gotten messy. I only keep records on one car but my car appears 4 or 5 times and the records are spread over the 4 or 5 iterations of “my car.” I see no easy way to combine them but to add and delete them one by one. Since I’m a long time user, this would take too much time and effort. It seems that every time there is an update, it doesn’t recognize the previous entry of “my car” and forces one to add your car once again. Please fix this or have some way to combine everything into the same “car.” It’s a bit annoying when you only have one vehicle recorded but have multiple listed.

GasBuddy was and is still a great concept, and I was happy using it once upon a time - when gas was cheaper and they hadn’t “sold out”. Times change. As they became more popular, it seems the discounts became less focused on fuel savings and more focused on cash back to spend in stores (I.e. sponsored advertising). But it came to a head with the record fuel prices and I gave up on them. At this point, saving less than $1 per fill up doesn’t help anyone like me. Maybe if you have a small car and/or don’t drive much, but to me it doesn’t help. The “premium” membership isn’t worth paying $10/month for either, because on average I’d only save about $7.50 in a month with their rate. Not worth it!

But the final two nails in the coffin were this: Several times I had fueled up using my Pay with GasBuddy card on deal alerts and didn’t get the deal even acknowledged or applied in the app. CS was less than responsive about this, basically saying they didn’t know why it wasn’t working.

Lastly and most importantly, they have a $75 daily spending cap and $300 weekly spending cap. I can’t even get 3/4 of a tank with $75 these days! They claim they can’t and won’t raise the cap for contractual obligations. Well, I’m gone. That does me no good. With the entire nation at $4.50+/gal now, y’all need to get with the times or lose once loyal customers such as myself.