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Yes, I'm going to vent! Maybe I'm going to rant! But I am angry!
Why do people think that it's perfectly acceptable to ask us to discount our hard work. Why do they not find it rude? Why do we do it? And why can't we stop?
Look, I think my pricing is fair. I have a few discounts that I offer as packages on our website. I change prices when a room isn't selling the way that I want it to sell. Many of my reservations for July and August date back for February and March. I'm already booked at 80% for July and 60% for August.
So why does someone go to our website, where we have LIVE booking choose to go to email and ask us about dates and a best price? Because other B&Bs have conditioned them to do it. Can't we stop this? Our price is our price. If I'm going to adjust the price, I will adjust it for those dates on the website. I put prices up and I put prices down as need be. I put certain specials when I need to. But we need to stop all discounting in email. It's discounting our labour. It's discounting us. I'm not a discounted product.
Sorry... this email today really got under my skin.
Why do people think that it's perfectly acceptable to ask us to discount our hard work. Why do they not find it rude? Why do we do it? And why can't we stop?
Look, I think my pricing is fair. I have a few discounts that I offer as packages on our website. I change prices when a room isn't selling the way that I want it to sell. Many of my reservations for July and August date back for February and March. I'm already booked at 80% for July and 60% for August.
So why does someone go to our website, where we have LIVE booking choose to go to email and ask us about dates and a best price? Because other B&Bs have conditioned them to do it. Can't we stop this? Our price is our price. If I'm going to adjust the price, I will adjust it for those dates on the website. I put prices up and I put prices down as need be. I put certain specials when I need to. But we need to stop all discounting in email. It's discounting our labour. It's discounting us. I'm not a discounted product.
Sorry... this email today really got under my skin.