Surely that garage can do what every the feel is necessary to ensure that you return and make prompt payment, I would not settle for taking details off a customer as there is no guarantee that the details given are accurate.
No they can't. They are not entitled to insist you leave any personal property behind as security. Just leave your details and go get cash, and let them know when you'll return. Leo
So, Leo, you are saying that I can force a filling station to give me credit? All I have to do is fill up, leave my card and promise to come back next Friday?
How about the filling station taking the position that you can not take the petrol away until you have paid for it?
Leo
Suppose that in a supermarket you filled up, and had no cash, would you expect that the supermarket should let you go with the goods to get cash, and let them know when you'll return. I don't think you'd get very far with that.
In the garage situation, you are expecting to drive out without paying for the goods you are carrying. In justice, the garage should have every right to insist that you do not leave the premises with goods which have not been paid for. It is reasonable that if they do allow this, they should have some form of assurance to guarantee that you will return.
The supermarket analogy does not fit here at all.
The OP was asking about the legal basis for a garage insisting on a phone being left behind. My answer addresses this based on current legislation, what you or I feel is reasonable or otherwise is irrelevant.
Actually the supermarket analogy is quite apt. I've forgotten my purse on occasion and it was quite simple leave the trolley behind and go get the money.
The garage was doing the OP a service, why would anyone have any problem with the garage asking for a mobile phone in lieu of payment. Immiently sensible decision of the garage. OP should be grateful to the garage, I would be. OP if he didn't want to leave his mobile should have walked home and got the money. Because leaving with the car with unpaid petrol is an offence the garage asking for the phone to allow the person to leave is not an offence, it is an agreement between the garage and the client.
All you need do is make sure that you have the means to pay when you put fuel in your car.... Not a hope i'd be leaving my phone in a petrol station...
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