Prices
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The Club has a five letter mindset at the moment…..GREED.
It knows that some out there don’t care what the prices are, they will pay them.
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Some of the longer serving members will recall that some time back it wasn't uncommon for the site revenue account to be in deficit for the odd year here and there.
Yes I do recall this and the reasons, weather and electricity consumption and its price were quoted by the Club. It wasn't just for the odd year, 6 of the 10 years between 2005 and 2014 were loss years.
e.g. from the 2009 accounts:
“Unfortunately, the operating costs were adversely affected by an unavoidable and continual large increase in annual electricity contract prices,” said Mr Bence. “This increase originated from the spike in energy prices in 2008 and although the Clubwas able to re-tender the contract at a significantly lower price in October 2009, it was too late to avoid the impact on the 2009 season.” Consequently, after an allocation of indirect site overheads, the sites network recorded a loss of £299,000 for the year compared with a loss of £14,000 for the previous year.
The biggest loss was in 2010 (a loss of £1,368,000)
peedee
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To be strictly true the biggest loss was sadly in 2020
Despite suffering losses of £10 million in 2020...
Although compared to what some people lost
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To read what you have posted Peedee, around the losses in the mid 2000’s, the Club clearly haven’t taken on board the issues around energy consumption, and I think we have had a further three interim price rises imposed above the usual price rises since 2009? The warnings around the high energy costs have long been there, but the Club doesn’t seem to have done much in terms of investment in alternative energy sources, or successfully ensuring Members are more mindful about how much energy a visit uses. They seem to have only two answers in their arsenal, raise the prices, and expect everyone to contribute regardless of how much they use. They are hitting the Membership every way they can to cover rising cost….extended peak pricing, price rises, charging for plugging in vehicles, charging for parking an extra vehicle, possibly, if we are to glean anything from its latest use of Membership fees, exploring charging for going to the loo!
As I have said elsewhere, there are lots of folks who will happily pay no matter how high the prices go. But I suspect it might come back to bite once a larger percentage of its older core membership dwindles away, and it’s not done enough to attract younger, less affluent, less facility dependent new signees. I actually personally know eight people who no longer tour with an outfit, one of whom only stays on for the Glamping Pods. I don’t know of any new Members personally, even though we have five family Members new to touring in last couple of years.1 -
But even before these prices rises prices in summer/peak were always far higher than other times even though as you say less electricity may be used, it's all to do with supply and demand more people want to go away, and can go away in peak and they do, always been the case and it's not the just the club that does this.
We'll be using the same holiday 'cottage' in May/June as we did early December last year and it's double the price than then, and it snowed and was cold back then and we certainly used a lot more energy than (hopefully) we'll use in May June.
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To read what you have posted Peedee, around the losses in the mid 2000’s, the Club clearly haven’t taken on board the issues around energy consumption, and I think we have had a further three interim price rises imposed above the usual price rises since 2009? The warnings around the high energy costs have long been there, but the Club doesn’t seem to have done much in terms of investment in alternative energy sources, or successfully ensuring Members are more mindful about how much energy a visit uses. They seem to have only two answers in their arsenal, raise the prices, and expect everyone to contribute regardless of how much they use. They are hitting the Membership every way they can to cover rising cost….extended peak pricing, price rises, charging for plugging in vehicles, charging for parking an extra vehicle, possibly, if we are to glean anything from its latest use of Membership fees, exploring charging for going to the loo!
I very much agree TTDA, they should have installed meters as soon as it became practical and they may well have had a good competitive advantage over other sites especially following this latest huge energy cost increase.
I have just checked the latest price of a site which has meters (I have been keeping an eye on price changes) and their price for two adults and the pitch in 2022 is £23 p.n., the same as that for 2021.
peedee
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TDA & TG summed up the situation with CAMC prices perfectly on the previous page. That is why, last year, I used several C&CC sites but not one CAMC one."Squeeze them till the pips squeak" seems to be the mantra at Grimstead Towers.
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Some of the longer serving members will recall that some time back it wasn't uncommon for the site revenue account to be in deficit for the odd year here and there.
I did post about this on page 7 saying it was more than just the odd year. 6 out of the 10 years 2005 to 2014 where in deficit with the largest deficit being £1.368K in 2010. I think every year since 2014 has seen a profit.
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