Agreed, and I'll go one further saying that it's still not 100% this way everywhere. I'm from a pretty rural area and at several of the stations there you're s

Agreed, and I'll go one further saying that it's still not 100% this way everywhere. I'm from a pretty rural area and at several of the stations there you're still free to pump then pay in cash. I actually didn't realize pay-first for cash transactions had become the standard until recently as I made the swap shortly after 'pay at the pump' became common and never really looked back. How does it work? You just estimate how much you need, and the pump cuts off at that point? If you can't hold that much you go back for a refund?