Slight of Hand "Head Line" Pricing
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BB stop digging, you have posting misleading figures for whatever reason and they must be shown to be so, may I remind you what you wrote?
those who might well be on site now (as you say) will be paying close to £40 for a nonSP and nearer £45'for a SP
This is clearly nonsense, the cost at standard sites (ie most of them) and as shown by myself and others is about £30 on site now, I paid 38 for a SP. Even on Hillhead at the moment it is under £40. I do not know where you got yours figures from. They have been peak since the 5th and would have been well below them before that
If as you say it is sneaky (your own words) for the club to do this 'headlining' then it is sneaky of you too, simple.
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Apologies to all if I’m wrong, as I’m not a solo traveller. Have those touring on their own always had the option of paying for the pitch + 1 adult, or has the standard cost always been pitch + 2 adults, meaning they had to pay extra, regardless of how it’s now currently advertised?
I’m not disputing that the change has been confusing, after always advertising as pitch + 2, but I just see it as normal practice in the tourism industry these days. You can go online and book a package tour with flights & hotel and find it’s nothing like the price on the web site, for example.
However the pitch prices are advertised, it’s going to give incorrect information in some circumstances to some people.
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Perhaps the standard pitch + 2 is a feature of some of the commercial sites we’ve used, or looked at, in the past, including the local one where we store our caravan in their compound, and not CAMC. As has been pointed out somewhere, many commercial sites add on additional costs for awnings, dogs, extra adults, and all manner of other things, however all their pitches may be serviced, and you can choose whether you want grass or hardstanding. They will then allocate you a pitch. Facilities will, of course, vary in quality, and prices may be similar, cheaper, or more expensive than club sites. Some won’t take one night bookings, especially at weekends, and some specify a minimum of three nights over a bank holiday weekend. This includes CC&C, but not CAMC. In many cases you won’t get immediate confirmation of availability when you book online, and you won’t get the final price until you’ve gone through the booking process.
For this reason, I find the CAMC a convenient, and not necessarily overpriced, service if there’s a site in the location I want to visit.
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Might it be a better idea for the Club to make no mention of from prices? Is price the first consideration when looking where to book? Location and availability is my first consideration.
David
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I always struggle t understand the "pricing" argument.
I enter my details, the club gives me a breakdown of what it is going to cost, I make a decision: confirm or cancel.
What's the problem?
So headline prices are not the reality when I book? Well, I've still got a choice. Go on somewhere like searchforsites and normally there will be dozens of places I can choose.
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"…and the number of 'cancels' is rapidly weighing the 'confirms'"
You’ve lost me there. What have cancellations to do with headline prices? Weighing the confirms? 🤔
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Exactly OJ, we look for an area we might like and look for a site below our maximum threshold, which is currently £25 unless it for something really special. If it is more than £25 we cancel making the booking and look for another site, another area or another time. If all sites are over £25 in a particular location or time then we just avoid it, plenty others to go at and like you we use https://www.searchforsites.co.uk/ ... It all depends on how much spare income you have, and I'm guessing that some on here have much more to spare than I currently have.
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Ah, this is where the custard thickens further! At most sites, solo travellers do only pay for pitch plus one adult. However.......remember those “Tour for less” Sites...........this is where it gets interesting, because the £15.00 pitch fee is one that remains the same for a solo, a couple, or a family with up to four children. All on a site with no facilities of course. But......don’t expect all none facility sites to be “tour for less” sites, some, are not. So here, you probably will be able to pay as a solo.
Confused? You bet, and that’s just the membership! Rule of thumb when considering a Club Site is go through the motions of booking, if the resulting price suits you, then confirm the booking. If it doesn’t, then you just start again with a different option.
I think more tinkering with bookings is to happen later in year, no doubt that will muddy the waters further. 😂
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Nope, not much better as 'even I' with the word word corrected cannot see how 'even you' can know that cancels are rapidly outweighing confirms.
Pure speculation to suit your line of thinking, BB, unless you’re blessed with second sight.
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"I responded with...(now corrected...)
"yes, of course Jen's post is common sense, however the other underlying 'price' issue is that they are rising quickly and (for some on limited or fixed incomes) the number of 'cancels' is rapidly weighing the 'confirms'.
better now?"
Well call me pedantic, but that's not really a correction is it, BB, since you've again missed out the "out"(
) and, more importantly, you've added the phrase in brackets which I don't think was there originally. And still, it's only conjecture o your part based on a very small number of posters who complain on CT about the prices (but many of whom still pay those very prices). At the end of the day Jenny is correct and saying very much the same as I did earlier in the thread - if the price looks OK, pay it, if it seems too expensive just look elsewhere as you would do with any purchase surely?1 -
well no, I'm not being obtuse (perish the though CS I hear you say) but what does:
and (for some on limited or fixed incomes) the number of 'cancels' is rapidly (out)weighing the 'confirm
actually mean?
Firstly how are the folk on limited or fixed incomes affected by the number of cancels?
Secondly are you are saying that the number of cancellations is greater than the number of people booking or confirming?
If so please explain how you know this?
And, even more intriguing, then how do you know the the number of cancels is rising quickly ?
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"Rule of thumb when considering a Club Site is go through the motions of booking, if the resulting price suits you, then confirm the booking. If it doesn’t, then you just start again with a different option."
Oh no, not more common sense!
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perfectly sound advice.
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just watch carry on camping, somethings never change.
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you mean the owner going for a P?
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why not try and understand what posters 'mean' rather than what they actually write
What? what they mean rather than what they write??? Do you realise what you have said there? We have to discern what you mean rather than what you write? Really? How are we meant to do that exactly?
I really think that anyone should be able to understand what you (or anyone) means by what you write BB, it should be clear enough from the start without the reader having to interpret it. That is what clear well written (and spoken) English is all about.
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"why not try and understand what posters 'mean' rather than what they actually write...."
That was what I was trying to do. I always find it pays to attempt to write what one means rather than to talk in riddles.
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+1
But easier to play the 'profession' and the man rather than the argument
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yes also the part about agreeing with myself and TW.
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😁Wednesdays are usually my common sense days. Can’t cope with more than one in a week though🤪
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+1
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