Perennial Membership Fee Increase
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Both can be true.
No idea what a typical hobby mag costs these days. However if we say £3.25 a month that is £39 plus delivery perhaps. Don't they also make their income from adverting and not just subscriptions??
Write your comments here...But ET You can opt out of buying a hobby mag if you feel it is of poor quality, that way you save yourself around £40 a year. The CC is failing to allow their customers to exercise the same personal choice.
K
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Now both scenarios cannot be right -- Somebody is dealing in porkies.
A bit of clarification is required from Grimstead !!
K
You can always check the Club accounts, there is usually an entry for the magazine. It comes under marketing services.
peedee
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Both can be true.
No idea what a typical hobby mag costs these days. However if we say £3.25 a month that is £39 plus delivery perhaps. Don't they also make their income from adverting and not just subscriptions??
Write your comments here...But ET You can opt out of buying a hobby mag if you feel it is of poor quality, that way you save yourself around £40 a year. The CC is failing to allow their customers to exercise the same personal choice.
K
Same with CC. You can opt out of paying if you wish.
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Isn't the C&CC online membership £5 cheaper for the privildge of not receiving their magazine in paper form?
So I guess it would be reasonable to expect a similar reduction if the CC chose to go down the same route.
It's £6, online membership is £37, paper membership £43. We opted for the online membership when we re-joined last year, as we never read the mag anyway.
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There is also the fact that inflation is so low due to large reductions in the cost of vehicle fuel and food costs brought about by supermarket competition. Other cost more applicable to running caravan sites such as labour are on the increase, certainly
more than 0.1%.Not sure labour costs are increasing as the switch to a living wage would appear - in some if not all cases - to being offset by a reduction in wardens contracted hours from 48 to 42 hours per week
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Isn't the C&CC online membership £5 cheaper for the privildge of not receiving their magazine in paper form?
So I guess it would be reasonable to expect a similar reduction if the CC chose to go down the same route.
It's £6, online membership is £37, paper membership £43. We opted for the online membership when we re-joined last year, as we never read the mag anyway.
Do you get the sites book with online membership?
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The only way to get subs down is to vote with your feet,so let's have less talk and more action
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Isn't the C&CC online membership £5 cheaper for the privildge of not receiving their magazine in paper form?
So I guess it would be reasonable to expect a similar reduction if the CC chose to go down the same route.
It's £6, online membership is £37, paper membership £43. We opted for the online membership when we re-joined last year, as we never read the mag anyway.
Do you get the sites book with online membership?
No but they have a very useful App for use when out and about otherwise access their web site from home.
peedee
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The only way to get subs down is to vote with your feet,so let's have less talk and more action
To be frank the £2 on the membership is not going to worry anyone. The big problem could be the increase in site fees which will add up over the year.
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Do you get the sites book with online membership?
No, you don't get that either; that didn't bother us as we are happy to look at the sites online, where at the same time you can also read reviews.
Edited to say I replied to the post before reading the rest; I see peedee had already answered and made the other point about the app.
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There is also the fact that inflation is so low due to large reductions in the cost of vehicle fuel and food costs brought about by supermarket competition. Other cost more applicable to running caravan sites such as labour are on the increase, certainly
more than 0.1%.Not sure labour costs are increasing as the switch to a living wage would appear - in some if not all cases - to being offset by a reduction in wardens contracted hours from 48 to 42 hours per week
Even 48 hours does not cover 9am to 8pm, when the last person can arrive. So I presume anything after the reception closes depends on goodwill. A reduction to 42 sounds like quite a lot of goodwill.
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Sounds like a 4 day week paid 10.5 hrs per day ( 9.00am - 8.00pm with 1/2 hr unpaid for lunch )
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I understand that the Lovely employer
cc have in recent years employed wardens as individuals ,rather than couples as in the past and are now expected to be able to cover ie.42hrs per person,so 84 hrs to cover the site,of course that is how Grimstead see it
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