How to Report a Price Change on GasBuddy

When dealing with gas prices, it's often crucial to find out the most up-to-date price. And with so many users on GasBuddy, there's definitely no shortage in gas price updates. If you want to become another GasBuddy reporter who wants to update the prices to a gas station, this article can explain how you can do that.

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Open your web browser and visit the GasBuddy homepage.

Scroll down to the very bottom of the GasBuddy page. There you'll find all the state's pages for a more-localized view.

Select your state, and later a more-precise regional location in your state from the menu in about the center area of the screen.

Look directly at the center of the screen. You'll see a big box of a lot of options that is labeled "Report Gas Prices".

Look at the first line of options. The first line of options will ask you to provide what types of gas types you'll be reporting. Click the checkbox to the left of the item's type to enable another (at first) hidden box. Type the price in (omitting the 9/1000 gas tax number).
- Be sure to add the period in between the dollar and cent amount. It's an awful difference for the system to compare when a price of 3.59 a gallon turns to be 359.00 a gallon (or so the system believes).

Look at the next line. You'll be furnishing the station ("Station (other)"), the area (Area (other)" and/or station address. Click the corresponding drop-down box underneath the label. If the item isn't listed, click the "(other)" link, and the drop-down box will turn into a text-box for you to type into.
- Do a complete search on the station type. Many times people tend to look for one version of the item and when that's not found, they tend to look for the other, and when both have been exhausted, tend to type it in another way, to make sure. If it's still not found, you'll have to request a new gas station be entered at the address.

Locate and enter the data on the third line that contains the "Time spotted" and "comments" button. While the comments button is rarely used by many people, the "Time spotted button is crucial, in telling people when this price was spotted and entered" and can be beneficial if a price change is soon to be on the way".

Click the Submit button underneath all this stuff to submit this price change.

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You can also save the station after you're done entering, by checking the checkbox to the left of the label called "Add to my Favorite Stations", which can allow for other adjustments to be made in the station later.

For each gas price you submit you are obtaining 150 points^[1]. Even if you have two prices to report, you'll get 150 points for both types, thereby helping you earn 300 points.

After a few thousand gas-price updates, you'll be able to earn a "Car icon" and the link to the master station list that Gas Buddy has, that can allow you to do more stuff. Not only can these special people add gas stations completely, but they can also edit gas station information.

Keep up the good deeds. Purchase a cell phone and report the gas prices via either their iPhone, Android, Blackberry or any other cell phone. And without a touchscreen cell phone, they even have a GasBuddy mobile page for which to report gas prices to/from. There's definitely no reason not to report prices to GasBuddy.