New Site Booking System

JV, I didn’t post to stevals. I just thanked you for your reply🤷🏻‍♂️

So it's 20 days until your booking starts, you'd like to cancel but if you do you'll lose the deposit. Exactly the same as if you are cancelling on the first day of the booking (or just not turning up to the site).

But if you cancel you'll also lose the (however unlikely) opportunity to use the booking, which you've now paid at least £25 for.

i.e. there is now a significant disincentive to cancelling early once inside the 21 day window, as you are realising a potential loss, for no benefit in return.

 

Good point. Some may wonder whether to bother cancelling at all once within the 21 day band. Thus, the pitch may not go back on sale at all.

It's another detail the club needs to consider.

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No shows may go up again for more availability in booking? That's a good deal?  

Yes, the club said no shows went down when they previously dropped deposits. We shall see.

Perhaps they need to make taking the balance just before arrival compulsory, as the C&CC have during covid. I don’t think many would risk getting the residual amount taken by being no shows. Even if they ultimately got  It returned.

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Wishful thinking? Not on my part, David!

Who has said, or even suggested that, speculative booking will continue at the same rate as before? 

For anyone that has a spare few hundred quid  (£1300) will still speculatively book every weekend but the majority will now cancel giving 21 days notice instead of 3. I didn't mind 3 days notice, I often pick up late cancellations. Sadly, a large number will now not bother to cancel if it is not in their interest to so, so the rationale of freeing up pitches falls away.

This new system is counter productive. It benefits no one in the long run. How much has the new system cost? How much each year is the Club contracted to pay to the software supplier? What cost in internal administration on this heavily reliant system, on a permanent yearly basis? All of this out of our subscriptions.

Then, the C&CC now no longer need to make their offer more attractive than the C&MC in order to compete. An equal playing field between the CCC, the C&MC and all commercial sites is now planned. So prices go up across the sector. Who looses? You and me.  The one thing, *one thing*,  that set the C&CC apart and gave it it's USP was the current booking system. An USP. Selling the USP on some accountant's recommendation as an easy way to raise a free loan is the worst decision this Club has made (since the change in logo IMO).

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