Chevron

If I could give this place negative stars that’s the rating I would opt for. Stopped at this Chevron on our way out of Mendocino. The first red flag was that the prices are not posted. As we began to fill our tank thankfully my husband noticed the cost increasing exponentially. We immediately stopped and realized that regular gas was about $ 5/gal!!!How is this possible when every where else it is averaging around $ 2.80/gal. This is utterly disgraceful but unfortunately seems to be the modus operandi of this establishment. A sour note during an otherwise beautiful day in Mendocino.

This place is a rip-​off! They don’t display gas prices; you only find out (if you look) on the pump. While gas prices everywhere else ranged from $ 2.30−2.60 per gallon, this gas station has prices from $ 5.29 to 5.62 for premium. MORE THAN 200%.
What an utter rip-​off.

The black-​eye of Mendo. How the owners sleep at night and how their mark-​up is legal is beyond me!!! For shame!!! AT least post your prices, as the rest of the country does, you yellow-​bellied thieves! Feel sorry for the locals.

I stopped at this chevron station last week when we were camping at Russian Gulch State Park in Mendocino. I was going to buy gas before heading back to the campground. I figured there price would be slightly higher than the $ 3.17 per gallon I had seen earlier at the Chevron station in Fort Bragg, especially since this is the ONLY gas station in the town of Mendocino… but there was no visible sign advertising the price prior to pulling into the fuel bay (Which, by the way is required by California State law!!) So I had to look at the price on the pump, and… OH MY GOD, this Dillweed might as well be standing out there with a mask over his face and holding a gun on you as you pull up! It is CRIMINAL what they are charging.
Do yourself a favor and drive the 7 miles to Fort Bragg where the prices are inline with today’s market, and the stations have signage like they are supposed to, as stated in the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture’s Petroleum Products Program.
As Follows:
Service stations are required to post the prices of the motor vehicle fuel that they sell. The signs must be visible to the motorist before entering the station to purchase fuel. Any conditions applicable to the sale of the fuel at the advertised price must also be on the advertising sign (i.e., full service or self service and cash price or credit price).
And just because you are such an «A-​HOLE» ridiculously gouging us California Tax payers, I will be reporting the fact that you are not in compliance with the above requirements.

You should be ashamed of yourselves. $ 5.99 per gallon when it’s $ 3.19 in the city of San Francisco right now? I wish only bad things upon you.

Wow — not sure how this gas station stays in business with the prices they charge? Like everyone states, double the average of even San Francisco…
Posting prices might be a start? We pulled in, got ready to fill up and decided we’d rather risk running out of gas than spend $ 100 filling up…

This creep is getting away with highway robbery! I was forced to get gas in Mendocino last night but was surprised to see $ 6.59 a gallon for regular on the pump! I live on the coast in Gualala so I am used to paying at least 70 cents more, per gallon for gas here, but this place is a joke. Another reviewer has posted the name and contact info of the women who owns this ‘business’, so I will make sure she understands how I feel about this exploration!

I have to add my voice to the many reviews about the price gouging going on here. It’s really surprising there isn’t another station in Mendo, to provide some needed competition. That’s all it would take. As we were getting enough gas to get us to Fort Bragg ($ 3.95/gal), 7 miles away, a guy came up to us and suggested just that. He also inquired as to whether we might need any lawn clippings. I wonder what he meant by that… Avoid this place at all costs. Also, there was no one on site at the time. Not a bit surprised. I would hide my face in shame too!

I am just speechless at the audacity of this business and how they are allowed to get away with price gouging and the illegal practice of not posting prices or printing a receipt. I paid $ 7.02 per gallon of cheapest regular gas over the 4^th of July weekend here. I will be pursuing this injustice on every level – the worst instance of rip-​off I have ever encountered in 40 years of travelling!!! TB

Starving D.,
I was prepared for Mendocino to be expensive.
I knew what my B&B was going to cost in advance, so that was ok. $ 18 burgers and $ 10 drinks? Fine, I knew about it ahead of time since the prices were listed on the menu. If it was more than I thought was fair, I could have left, or had fries and a water. I had no issue with this.
I pulled into the gas station and there were no signs showing prices, which might be to city ordinances as a sleepy getaway spot so I wasn’t suspecting dishonesty.
When I started my transaction, the price display wasn’t hard to read, it was completely blank (must have been «out of order» after too many 1 gallon top offs) so I figured it got burnt out by being on the sunny side of the un shaded island, and filled up while I washed my windows. I didn’t know I had been robbed by these «nice people» until I saw the highest gas total I had ever been charged by over $ 10, when I had almost a quarter tank. I tried to print a receipt so I had proof of the gouging and guess what? Out of paper, what a coincidence!
My point is that I would have gladly paid the price asked for 1 gallon to go on my way had I been able to know in advance. I am glad the repair service was helpful, but this is passively dishonest price gouging.
With a little digging on a famous search engine, I was able to file a «fuel price complaint» with the Atty General’s office. Not sure which complaint will be more effective, if either. Oh well, made me mad enough to give my first one star, so there’s that I guess…
It should also be noted that there are 4 additional 1 star reviews from people so ticked off that they created a Unilocal!account just to complain. (TBH this is necessary to prevent internet smear campaigns). This brings their true rating to be 1.2, which I have only seen in cable companies that have a monopoly and no customer service concern whatsoever.

This gas station charged me $ 6.259 for a gallon on gas in June, 2014 & and I have the ripoff receipt! There are no signs posted and apparently — judging from the reviews on Unilocal — they’ve been engaged in this type of price gouging for at least two years now. Why doesn’t someone do something? I have reported them to Chevron and the proof is on the receipt. Avoid this place at all costs!

At over $ 6 per gallon this is an absolute rip-​off. No prices displayed so you don’t know you’re being ripped off until you start pumping. Stay away unless you are running on fumes…

Last night, because we were running on fumes, we bought 1 gallon of regular for $ 6.26…we headed to fb and paid $ 2.68 less per gallon to fill up the rest of the way. Holey moley. Also, a pump was out of order. I suppose in circumstances like ours, the trip from Point Arena to FB was only possible because gas was available in Mendo. Still…

2÷4÷2014. Seems criminal that the window to the price of gas has been seemingly sanded to foggy texture so the excessive price can not be read before you pump fuel.
This information will be forwarded to Chevron headquarters!
No stars awarded

$ 6.79 for gasoline? I agree with the other reviewers, can’t rate this place low enough.

Gouging of the highest magnitude I’ve seen in the United States. Gas stations in the middle of Death Valley or other places where one can die without gas don’t have the stones to charge what these thieves want. $ 6.79? Really? I paid 3.49 yesterday.
I pulled away on principle. I’ll drive elsewhere. Refuse to be their victim.

Thanks Chevron Mendocino. The auto tech was very helpful on NYE; much appreciated… Yes, the gas was very high; but you do NOT have to buy gas from there… Nice people, great service… Please complain elsewhere…(12/31/2012)