Canadian Dollar
Here I sit at home (B.C.) this winter and did not go south (AZ.). There are a few reasons the low Canadian Dollar being one. I was sitting and looking out the window at the snow we don't usually g...
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happycamper002 wrote:There is much more to discounting than filling spaces. What happens when a few of those Canadian guests start talking with their US neighbors and it gets out that the Canadians are getting a 30% discount that the US customers are not? Most likely, backlash. The US guests will then vote with either their feet, or they will purchase Canadian funds and pay their site fees with Loonies and Toonies.almcc wrote:
...The other thing we notice at this time of the dip is that some parks offer reductions to Canuks, the park we are at offers 5% off for Canuks and I understand some parks offer Canuks "at par" rates.
If you do some planning, the hit isn't as bad!
RV Parks offering Canuks at par with USD aren't savvy entrepreneurs. The expenses for utilities and other services for upkeep won't offer such discounts for their services...not at over 30 percent discount. As the CDN $$ had diminished in value is reflected in the past year or so.
This reminds me of a joke about a couple of fruit vendors selling their produce the same amount they paid for their ware.
At the end of the day, they were overjoyed having sold all their stuff so they decided to buy another truck so they could load more and sell more persimmons.
I would avoid that RV park like a plague who runs this business model.
The only place I would consider such a discount is if my business consisted of primarily Canadian customers and I could price my sites with the 30% exchange discount built into the price. Post my price at $1000.00CD, Knowing I will be getting $700.00 US. That would be no different than any other discount except I would be pretty much writing off the US business, which if I wasn't getting any to begin with wouldn't be an issue.
