Perennial Membership Fee Increase
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Yes please membership at £8. Dont really want the crappy mag.which should be self financing as most of it is adverts.
I think you have your answer in what you have written. If the mag is truely self financing the CC cannot afford to reduce your membership by £40, as they would then have to find that £40 from somewhere else.
My thoughts exactly. But, if the magazine could be read from a PC, the Club might save some money by not requiring it in print.
Does anyone know what proportion of C&CC membership have taken up the reduced fee for paperless membership?
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Since we all seem to be paying up, even if somewhat reluctantly, I assume we must think that the overall offering is worth the money. Otherwise we would all be voting with our feet and going elsewhere.
Good point Steve, I agree completely, don't whine about costs going up, do something about it-don't pay the cost-simple really
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the things I can control are-House & Car insurance, they attempted to increase the charges so I moved my insurance. . . .No ifs or buts or moans. It ain't rocket science.0 -
The club magazine is not worth reading and as for the site fees they have gone up about £2 per night for this year , as someone else said its getting ridiculous and very expensive .
..Have they?Well, the site pricing structure is so complicated these days that it is difficult to be accurate about how much the site fees have gone up , but in many cases it is a lot more than £2 per night. They have also sneaked in an increase in the cost of the Jan
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and, I think, membership is falling. So, to maintain income, the fees must go up.
so, members are voting with their feet/wheels, which is what happens when prices start to bite hard.
yes, a few quid on a a yearly sub isnt much, but that £40 odd adds £3 a night to the pitch price for those who only take their annual fortnight's break with CC, in addition to the £2 a night rise Nellie alludes to upthread...so,
in effect making the CC site price a fiver less competitive than commercials....for those who havent the time to take many nights with CC (unlike some on CT who absorb these increases over many nights touring) the unit price is becoming very high...
add in the cost (for many of these low users) of extra children and this makes these constant increases ever more noticable..
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The club magazine is not worth reading and as for the site fees they have gone up about £2 per night for this year , as someone else said its getting ridiculous and very expensive .
..Have they?Well, the site pricing structure is so complicated these days that it is difficult to be accurate about how much the site fees have gone up , but in many cases it is a lot more than £2 per night. They have also sneaked in an increase in the cost of the Jan
to March site fees, which used to be the same as those for the low season at the end of the previous year.We are in the "lucky" position of not having to think about what it costs as if we want to we just do it,although I have the new price bandings we have not compared them with last years,...Now we know why the
supplement has not been published, as i think the clubs public relations and sites departments would be under pressure from members to explain,It will be the wardens on site who will probably have to try to fend off the complaints,0 -
I do not think its membership costs alone that ,if its correct, membership is falling ,it is a combination of diferent lifestyles these days,some where a holiday is.
1 Everything done for you,
2 No space to keep leisure vehicle at home ,so storage costs +cost of larger vehicle or add vehicle with m/v
3 Camping is on the rise again as everything can be put in smaller car or small trailer, this seems to be reflected in the increasing ammount of sites now accepting tents, I wonder how long it will be before Tenters are accepted as members to cc
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I wonder how long it will be before Tenters are accepted as members to cc
I always assumed they could join if they wanted to, it's just from the price per night point of view there is no incentive. Although the other benefits, such as cheaper ferry crossings, would be available to them.
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I wonder how long it will be before Tenters are accepted as members to cc
I always assumed they could join if they wanted to, it's just from the price per night point of view there is no incentive. Although the other benefits, such as cheaper ferry crossings, would be available to them.
Write your comments here...only trailer tents ,I think tents have special price bands
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i take other types of 'everything is done for you' holidays....
i have room to park my MH on my drive, so no storage costs...
my wife already had a car so we didnt need an 'add veh with m/v
'.....(surely those with caravans have the cost of upgrading
from to a car that can safely tow the weight of the van?.....)anyway, none of the above takes away from the fact that CC prices are rising quickly, memberership and site fees.
those that can make use of off-peak deals at commercials (7 nights for 5, or 5 nights for £50) are voting with their feet.
those who cant, and have to pay peak prices at club sites (after all theyre members...) are certainly noticing it.....
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Get rid of the Mag and the army at HO in charge of it. After cutting their costs out there would be room to reduce membership fees. Any likelyhood of HO slimming down - as much as Turkeys voting for Xmas. Once again I say get back to basics.
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Fish, surely you can't be serious?, take people's jobs from them just like that to enable a few quid to be saved on Membership fees?, if that is a serious post I find it shocking
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It really depends what you want to spend your money on. We belong to the leisure club at a local large hotel. They had a book early for next Christmas board in the entrance the other day to get a cheaper rate, a mere £760 per person for 4 nights. Add on a few bottles of wine and a spa experience and the Christmas break for two would be about £1700. It is full every year. It's exactly the same with the CC people are prepared to pay for what they know will be a good experience.
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While I can afford all the increases, I don't see the sense in paying them if I can get what I want cheaper else where. I hope the Club has done its market research thoroughly because maybe a fair proportion of members will not be adding much to their bottom line.
peedee
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i take other types of 'everything is done for you' holidays....
i have room to park my MH on my drive, so no storage costs...
my wife already had a car so we didnt need an 'add veh with m/v
'.....(surely those with caravans have the cost of upgrading from to a car that can safely tow the weight of the van?.....)anyway, none of the above takes away from the fact that CC prices are rising quickly, memberership and site fees.
those that can make use of off-peak deals at commercials (7 nights for 5, or 5 nights for £50) are voting with their feet.
those who cant, and have to pay peak prices at club sites (after all theyre members...) are certainly noticing it.....
Write your comments here...And your point is ? its the younger generation who seem to be wanting a different lifestyle as i said , we are some of the last people who grew up with a job for life and a pension to match ,the younger generation today have a completely different outlook on life it seems ,so the membership figure is not going to improve as we give up, the sale of new c/vans/m/vans by people with decent pension pots just fills up dealers forecourts with more and more used vehicles,
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i take other types of 'everything is done for you' holidays....
i have room to park my MH on my drive, so no storage costs...
my wife already had a car so we didnt need an 'add veh with m/v
'.....(surely those with caravans have the cost of upgrading
from to a car that can safely tow the weight of the van?.....)anyway, none of the above takes away from the fact that CC prices are rising quickly, memberership and site fees.
those that can make use of off-peak deals at commercials (7 nights for 5, or 5 nights for £50) are voting with their feet.
those who cant, and have to pay peak prices at club sites (after all theyre members...) are certainly noticing it.....
Write your comments here...And your point is ? its the younger generation who seem to be wanting a different lifestyle as i said , we are some of the last people who grew up with a job for life and a pension to match ,the younger generation today have
a completely different outlook on life it seems...yet, the CC are placing their product beyond the reach of those customers they are purporting to attract.....
that is my point...
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Fish, every business needs to monitor and manage its overheads on a regular basis....
what you have suggested is no different to what many companies have been doing regularly in these straigtened times.
if customers are actually posting concerns over the prices of a business' products (and the 'value' of an unwanted product) on their own website, they would do well to heed them.....
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Been a member for 30 odd years, happy to stay a member despite only staying on Club Sites a total of 7 nights last year (one of which was via a free voucher, which of course we used at a very expensive £29 per night site!). What keeps us members? Access
to cheap, quiet, wonderfully diverse CLs.Everyone has their own personal reason for taking out membership, but if you are moaning, then you are not getting what
you as an individual need from the Club, so the answer should be, either adjust your touring requirements, or simply don't rejoin! There are actually lots of other options out there.0 -
i take other types of 'everything is done for you' holidays....
i have room to park my MH on my drive, so no storage costs...
my wife already had a car so we didnt need an 'add veh with m/v
'.....(surely those with caravans have the cost of upgrading
from to a car that can safely tow the weight of the van?.....)anyway, none of the above takes away from the fact that CC prices are rising quickly, memberership and site fees.
those that can make use of off-peak deals at commercials (7 nights for 5, or 5 nights for £50) are voting with their feet.
those who cant, and have to pay peak prices at club sites (after all theyre members...) are certainly noticing it.....
Write your comments here...And your point is ? its the younger generation who seem to be wanting a different lifestyle as i said , we are some of the last people who grew up with a job for life and a pension to match ,the younger generation today have
a completely different outlook on life it seems...yet, the CC are placing their product beyond the reach of those customers they are purporting to attract.....
that is my point...
Write your comments here...Not if you read the ammount of info from the whole of the leisure industry the next few years will I think see a big change in everyones perception of "cheap"
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I don’t join French, German, Italian or any other European equivalent of CC Ltd but I still get value for money when I am abroad so this year I may dump CC Ltd and go commercial.
There is of course the fact that several on CT have commented how difficult it is to get into some sites, particularly at weekends. If you removed the membership fee one can only assume this would get worse.
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There is a saturation point at which customers will judge a company by "value for money". If they think that a particular company no longer offers "value for money", they will vote with their feet and buy their goods and services from another company.
The CC is reaching this critical point and we should not be surprised at the reduction of customers buying their products.
K
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"Not if you read the ammount of info from the whole of the leisure industry the next few years will I think see a big change in everyones perception of "cheap"
JVB, with your insider knowledge, perhaps you could enlighten us as to what 'cheap' pitch prices will be.....
£40 per night or will be going back to basics for £15?
IE, not £25....
i assume its one or the other, otherwise you wouldnt have posted this 'nugget'?
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