$10,000 Charge for $20 Worth of Gas

A Florida couple says a gas station made a major mistake when they swiped their credit card. Susan Bower says she’s gone to the same Fort Myers Valero station for years, but now she will never go back. In May, she says she and her husband stopped there as they usually did to pump gas. Bower says they swiped their credit card for about $20 worth of gas. The next day they tried using the same card, but were alerted they were over their credit limit. The culprit? A $9,949.36 charge at Valero. That is 27,000 gallons worth of gas. “It was shocking. I mean, it’s just like how did that happen,” says Bower. “We normally don’t look at our receipts, you just assume you’re going to be charged whatever you put your credit card in for.” Bower says she went back for a refund the next day but found out it was not that simple.