RandK-M wrote:
DiskDoctr wrote:
westernrvparkowner wrote:
When all of us super-rich RV park owners gather we always repeat Gordon Gekko's mantra "GREED is Good, GREED works." It is what we base our entire business plan on, sucking the last dollar out of a poor, defenseless campers pocket. And firewood is definitely the place to do it.
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
- John Egan
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody, by spending his money somewhere else.
- Sam Walton
In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
- Alice Macdougall
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
- Walt Disney
Developing a pricing strategy begins with determining the true value of your offerings to customers.
- Lee Gimpel
Only customers create the cash flow that eventually keeps a company in or out of business
- Anne C. Graham
I couldn't find any that said, "Who cares what customers want, there will always be others" :R
Some good stuff there! I have to wonder if the high price that some charge hurts the bottom line in the end. I know that other things being equal or similar, if a campground charged me $8 for a little bundle of wood and another charged a fair price of $4 or even $5, I would go the cheaper one.
Ray
So five dollars is "fair" and eight dollars is not. This great pronouncement is based on what? Your extensive experience packaging firewood in the area in question? You deep experience in the cost of buying firewood in that area? Or maybe you just pulled that number out of the air because that is what a "bundle" (a very scientific unit of measurement) happened to cost when you bought some. Like most any product, there is much more to a bundle of firewood than the raw cost of the materials. We don't know how it is bundled. We don't know where it is shipped from. We don't know any special circumstances that might have added costs to the bundle of firewood. Somehow I seriously doubt that the park is question is vacant, no customers at all, and that any vacancies they may have are traced directly to overpriced firewood. But by all means keep thinking that all those laws regarding moving firewood are because some random campground got the entire states to enact laws to give them a monopoly so they can make an additional $3.00 a bundle on firewood.
