New booking system with deposits

It will deter multiple bookings for the year ahead, deposits are costly on this scale. It's unfortunate that we're entering an inflationary period, there is never a good time to make changes but at least the income stream for CAMC improves. I hope there will be more "offers" to keep members on board. Taking has to be balanced by giving!

+1, I’m one of the ‘is it worth it’ mindset, at the mo yes it is👍🏻. As you say-‘taking has to be balanced by giving’. If in the future I feel I’m not just a cash cow then I’ll be happy with C&MC. Offers?🤔, if something is on offer for £500 on the open mkt but C&MC has an offer for £100 discount on the same product yet at the outlet I see said item for £600 then that isn’t an offer to me, there is a lot of that sharp practice about everywhere☹️

I should have clarified things, I meant offers on pitch prices. 

 Deposits may deture those, as us to do long tours with multiple sites ,which now works as if not booking all the sites early ,can and has scuppered a tour because of availability of pitches,,

It may? make putting a tour together less of a long term neccesity but will be quite expensive up front in the first place

I think the availability of pitches will increase due to the cost of living shooting up, fuel alone is around 1/3rd higher & expected to continue to go up. That will increase availability for those who don’t have a tight to medium budget🤷🏻‍♂️. I read by August fuel will be £10 a gallon.

I think you're right, I've thought the same.  We are fortunate in that we're not on a tight budget.  But I think there will be quite a few people who will think twice about going away just for the weekend, especially if they can only get on to a site early evening after work, and have to leave again on the Sunday by noon.  Is 1 full day worth all that fuel?  I think the 2 recent emails I received from the Club, telling me there are still pitches available on some of the most popular sites, bear witness to that.

It's the perfect time for the club to release the the changes it cannot fail to be a success the present financial climate seems to be having the effect of making more pitches available, at the end of the year extra pitch availability will be put down as the successful working of the new system, the reduction in clubs finances will be blamed on the financial crisis, a change managers dream set of circumstances.

Thanks DavidKlyne for directing me towards this thread after multiple searches didn't give me any answers.  I've no problem with the Club changing to a deposit scheme - it will deter those speculative block bookings for popular sites.  The implementation of it could be a bit of a nightmare - hope it's been thoroughly tested before it goes live.

CAMC's silence of late on the issue is a little puzzling too - there's no harm in a Comms person putting out a "bear with us, we are changing the system" message, instead of us all finding out via the back door of discussions and F*cebook

Have to agree about being kept in the dark

I expect the Club does not want to publish anything further especially dates until they are confident they can deliver.

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