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CampKohler Champion Author Sacramento Posts:9,667 Points:1,583,535 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Nov 22, 2012 1:40:07 AM Ignore CampKohler Report Abuse The "seems too high" msg is popping up far too often. It even appeared when I was lowering the existing price by a few cents! The logic may not be set up to look at individual station prices, comparing instead to, say, area averages, but however it works, it is not quite cutting the mustard. The formula needs to be tweaked.

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The "seems too high" msg is popping up far too often. It even appeared when I was lowering the existing price by a few cents! The logic may not be set up to look at individual station prices, comparing instead to, say, area averages, but however it works, it is not quite cutting the mustard. The formula needs to be tweaked.

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Jack7957 Champion Author Syracuse Posts:14,823 Points:3,421,310 Joined:Feb 2003	Message Posted: Dec 15, 2012 3:51:46 AM Ignore Jack7957 Report Abuse Rather than start a new thread, here is what I see locally..... Three stations, all in less than a mile stretch, their diesel prices are $4.17, $4.19, and $4.21 The $4.17 and $4.21 I get the "Price too high" question, but not for the $4.19 I could see the highest price getting that, but why the lowest and highest, but ignoring the middle?
Byte_Doctor Champion Author Akron Posts:3,630 Points:743,290 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: Dec 9, 2012 11:03:17 PM Ignore Byte_Doctor Report Abuse I noticed the same thing, and because of what was becoming my automatic reaction I've even managed to answer a different notice incorrectly (the too far away message) as "Yes I'm sure" so I ended up posting to the wrong station.
CampKohler Champion Author Sacramento Posts:9,667 Points:1,583,535 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Dec 9, 2012 3:25:30 AM Ignore CampKohler Report Abuse Regardless of the mechanics of it all, I just had a personal reaction this evening that is troubling: I have seen the msg pop up so often that I automatically, without thinking, pressed YES. If that is what people's reaction will become, it's usefulness will evaporate; it will be like clicking "skip this ad" on YouTube.
DavisSta All-Star Author San Francisco Posts:629 Points:2,519,895 Joined:Jun 2004	Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 11:44:12 PM Ignore DavisSta Report Abuse ziyulu, The agree that the warnings still seem to get high and low backwards in some instances. (I think the developers worked on this problem a bit about six months ago.) I tried to replace an incorrect premium price of $3.799 with the correct price of $4.799 and was warned by the app that the $4.799 price "seems too low." To make matters worse, the other price checker (it appears to me that there are two: one that presents the warnings and another that simply refuses to accept prices that seem out of range without giving any warnings) refused to accept the $4.799, leaving in place the incorrect price that was off by a dollar. The good news is that I messaged the moderators and within a few hours (amazingly fast!) the developers apparently modified the price checker's limits in that area so that the high prices at that and other stations started being accepted. [Edited by: DavisSta at 12/7/2012 11:45:06 PM EST]
Byte_Doctor Champion Author Akron Posts:3,630 Points:743,290 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: Dec 7, 2012 7:05:59 AM Ignore Byte_Doctor Report Abuse This is still happening - Mods, any chance this is going to get fixed?
ziyulu Champion Author Oklahoma City Posts:8,629 Points:1,628,625 Joined:Aug 2007	Message Posted: Nov 26, 2012 5:49:19 AM Ignore ziyulu Report Abuse Yes, I tried to replace a diesel price of $3.949 with $3.889 and it warned me that my price was too high.
teddytrow Rookie Author Iowa Posts:46 Points:124,485 Joined:Jul 2012	Message Posted: Nov 25, 2012 10:50:10 PM Ignore teddytrow Report Abuse I have gotten the question with all of the grades when reporting same prices or lowering them with the android app.
CampKohler Champion Author Sacramento Posts:9,667 Points:1,583,535 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Nov 23, 2012 7:45:06 PM Ignore CampKohler Report Abuse Yes, that is where I am seeing it, too. Today I got it when updating diesel involving the same price.
Byte_Doctor Champion Author Akron Posts:3,630 Points:743,290 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: Nov 22, 2012 11:02:44 AM Ignore Byte_Doctor Report Abuse Sounds like the same issue I brought up in another topic except the only time I'm seeing it is with diesel. Still hoping for a fix...