Shell

I like coming here its right on the corner open all night and never shuts down for repairs. I just hate having to stand outside when trying to do the transaction. But its cool they have neat tvs outside to keep you entertained. it would be nice if they had a car wash.

On 8/​26, my car was overfilled by pump #3 at the Shell station on the corner of Shoreline and El Camino Real in Mountain View. As I struggled to stop the flow, gas poured out of both my car and the pump and onto my pants and my shoes and the ground.
The attendant refused to give me any contact information but she took my name and number and assured me that her manager would call. Today is ⁸⁄₂₉ and no one has called me.
I thought gas pumps had to have a control mechanism in place so that they could not overfill your tank. Either I am mistaken or that mechanism isn’t working on pump #3 at this station.

Because you aren’t exposed to enough noisy commercials already, this station blares them at you while you get gas. This is the second Shell station that I have found to do this, which I guess means I should just avoid all Shell stations.
I offset their ad revenue by running my debit card as a credit card. If you want to serve me a noise nuisance with my gasoline then you can choke on the merchant fee.

These TV screens are annoying

I just stopped here and got gas since it was on the way to my girl friend’s house. Prices here are okay. I paid $ 3.839 per gallon. Yes, this gas station does have TV screens which actually scared me when I was pumping since I stopped here around 10:30 last Saturday night. I think you could probably find cheaper gas in the area, but this station was convenient.

Until last week I thought this was a great place to get gas since it was cheaper than other name brand gas stations, BUT on Friday the 13^th the pumps were running VERRRRRY slow (it took me 15 min to get 7 gallons). When I complained to whom I think was the manager — he said the pumps were all fine. He did come out to look and the people at the other pumps started complaining too. One guy had been there over 20 min and his Honda’s tank STILL wasn’t full. Once again the «manager» said that there wasn’t a problem and turned around and went back in the station. The hispanic lady with him just shrugged her shoulders. At that point my pump all of a sudden stopped working and rather than go in and make an issue with the guy since it wouldn’t do me any good — I left.
My husband not realizing which Shell station I was talking about went there over the weekend and the only type of gas they were selling was premium. There were no signs telling people that the other types/​tanks were empty. When he asked about it he was told the manager doesn’t want any signs up as it is bad for business.
For the foreseeable future there is no way I and probably everyone that was there when I was there will use that station again. I would rather pay the price difference (which is currently .13) at the Shell and/​or Chevron gas stations further down Shoreline. Right now I am leaning toward the Chevron… And yes I have a complaint into Shell, but they won’t get back to me until the 30^th.

Cheapest gas near Downtown Mountain View that I know of, corner of Shoreline and El Camino. I don’t see too many other gas stations with TV screens at the pump and the commercials are fun to watch while pumping gas.

Huge Boooo! for this Shell.
I used to go here all the time; its on my way home from work. They have now installed TV screens to show commercials to you while you pump. Do you really need to monetize the minute or two when I am pumping gas? I now avoid this one entirely.
The worst part is, at least when I was there, they just loop very short commercials so you see the same one over and over again. Indirectly supporting Nigerian death squads I could live with, but now Shell has gone too far!