jake2250 wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
jake2250 wrote:
sch911 wrote:
Dump stations are for dumping your tank, not flushing it. I would never sit there flushing if someone's waiting behind me. But I have if there's no one waiting. If you want to flush your tank go get a FHU site. There you can flush to your hearts content!
I guess I wear a different set of rose colored glasses. My view is,, If its a free dump site why get upset with me if I flush? Its FREE doesn't cost you nothing,,Relax! I usually dump on my way OUT, leaving,going home, Not in a hurry to get there! If you would have left early enough you wouldn't be in such a rush!
If its a Pay to dump, then I am paying for it I am gonna flush using their water and facility,I paid for it I am gonna use it!
Besides most places don't have set time limits for dumping, only time limit I know of is, the minute you swipe your card it gives you five minutes to open the sewer lid, So,, I'll pull up, hook up the whizzing tornado black tank rinse,let 'er flow, get my dump hose laid out, hook up to trailer then fetch my wallet and get the CC out. That should have agitated the black enough to get a good first dump out.
Have only been to one place that you gotta pay for water and dump all in one,,and they give you twenty minutes to complete your mission! If I swipe my card and pay, you better believe I am taking the 20 minutes! Even if I gotta wash the trailer down I'm going to use my money accordingly!
If there is a line behind me,,oh well,, should have gotten there earlier.
As i said before,, maybe its the relaxed attitude of this side of the nation,, but I have not yet had an upset dumper waiting on me! There's plenty to do on your phone or I pad or what ever to get pushy about it!
Take a deep breath (upwind) and R E L A X!!
Thank you for your well reasoned argument. I am going to bookmark it and show it to the people who complain we no longer offer a public dump. You make a much better case for closing our dump stations than we did.
Well thats good business, close it because people use it! Did you charge or was it free? If you charged whats the issue? Didn't you do a time/cost/water usage/cost etc? if it was free and actually added into the cost of using your camp site your only cutting of your nose despite your face!
On the flip side of your decision to make it unappealing to camp there,, the people that do show up won't complain about it being crowded, Hopefully you actually have something to offer as in scenery,local attractions to make up for the loss of conveniences. You should look into not providing any other services other than dry camping,, because,,,OMG if people actually use it we'll go out of business!!
Glad I can help you make dumb decisions!! If you would like,, post the name and location of your camp ground or RV village and I will be glad to let ALL of my friends and fellows camper know where to Never spend their money!!
My parks are all 100% full hookups. My guests neither need nor use a dump station. The only reason I ever had dump stations were as a courtesy to the people who use the multiple public campgrounds in my area that do not have dumping facilities. The dumps never made any money and were probably a net operating loss. But it wasn't the financial considerations that led to us closing them, it was the discourteous people who felt paying a $10.00 dump fee entitled them to abuse the facilities. And in the unlikely event your post isn't just a blatant troll, we can safely say those discourteous people haven't gone away. And with your attitude, even if I never see a penny from a single one of your "friends", I don't think I will miss any business because I suspect Captain Hook could count them on his fingers, with a few fingers to spare.
