Cancellations

If you were a member and making a booking you would see.

I don’t see what difference it makes wether it is in house or a third party. In one the organisation handles the payments themselves, in the other the organisation requests the third party to take the balance, or make a refund. In the case of CY’s suggestion, they would request that the sum for the first night is debited in the case of a no show. 

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That's a different scenario, DD. Chargeback applies equally to debit, credit and prepaid cards which is contrary to the misleading info in your earlier post. 

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I was a member for nigh on 20 years until a few months ago. Will you explain your obscure comment please?

Incidentally, I don't need to be a member in order to book.

I know the deposit thing is decided and I should accept it.

I think members who are sensibly deciding not to travel when they feel uncomfortable about it. E.g. in light snow, in a yellow warning area, should not be penalised at all.  Their deposits should be refunded, and I understand this could take a week or ten days, which is fine as long as you get it back.

The Club is being run now exactly the same as commercial sites so there seems to be no advantage except for accessing the CL network.  I no longer feel like a member of a club, enjoying a privilege of flexible, no deposit bookings.

The system in place before, sometimes left a handful of empty pitches on busy sites due to late cancellations.  
The club was achieving healthy surpluses with the old system. 

If there are six empty pitches the last person to arrive still has a choice, and touring vans might be lucky and get a pitch.  I can’t see the problem there.

Sorry I had to get this off my chest at this late stage, but the snow cancellations getting vouchers, or even no refund, made me so cross!

If card details are not being retained somewhere, how does the "Club" manage to charge the ballance after deposit on the night before arrival . . ?

Good point, Nav 😎

No supposition needed, the club does use World Pay for payment card processing.