Dynamic Pricing

Dynamic pricing is happening with our site fees, which I think is rediculous. When you book a pitch it should make no difference to the price and not penalise those who do a last minute booking. It does make me feel the club is taking the micky and manipulating us. This does not seem to happen on private/commercial sites so why are CMC doing it to us? What are they gaining from it, except my annoyance? 

But being "dynamic" prices could go either way? So if a site is not very busy the price could go down. I suspect the difference between what the Club do and the sale of Oasis tickets is that prices go up and down within a certain percentage. For example I never seen anyone post that the price of a pitch at Chatsworth has gone from £50 to £150 which seems to be the price progression of the concert tickets? We also don't know whether the Club made a decision to have dynamic pricing or whether it was part and parcel of the software they purchased? Whilst many sites do have a published price lists there are lots of others where the only way you establish the price is by entering the details of your stay into the website which then produces a price. You have no indication whether the next person to book gets the same price. If there were to be Government intervention I suppose it could be considered reasonable to put in place limitations on how far the price could vary. But unlike concert tickets Club campsites don't really have a fixed price as they vary according to season and demand.

David

Slightly late to this discussion, but for what it’s worth a 4 night trip to Broadway site would have been 7% more expensive if we had booked it the day before we arrived rather than a month before.

You only have to bring up the availability checker to see the daily pricing.

I thought the club price list was what you paid. I have seen plenty offers of reduced prices for sites with book before dates which might look like dynamic pricing. You also get the option of booking up to a year ahead, which means some early bookers could miss the annual increases.

What evidence have members got of dynamic pricing. Our last outing was a fairly short notice and there was no increase in the published prices, or for that matter any decrease.

I didn’t think there was a price list any more as the prices are fluid🤷🏻‍♂️

Seems prices are only on the availability calendar Wildwood.   Have you not noticed that often Fridays and Saturdays are sometimes more expensive than other days?    Often only 20p, sometimes more.

If you book well ahead, you may not see differences when you book, but as weekends get booked up, those days become more expensive.

Other than the special offers, which have many strings attached, I have not seen decreases, as in last minute bookings being less expensive.