Campground Question

southpark wrote:

Born To Travel wrote:
Like the old saying goes, We screwed the last guy and passed the savings on to you... Trick is not to be the last guy...

My wife is in the diamond and jewelry business and years ago I convinced her to stop letting people try to haggle down the price. Otherwise you have to make up for it (they are a very price competitive store so margins are razor thin) with the next person who isn't so pushy -- and how is that fair to them? For years the price is the price and rather than pulling the "what can I do to get you to buy today" gambit, customers are encouraged to make apples-to-apples comparisons with the competition they see they were offered the discounted best price up front with no games.

I'm sure some will say I've gone way off topic and, if I have, I'm sorry. But I think the OPs comments are just reflecting frustration at the way things are done these days. I could be wrong, but I suspect if this experience were isolated they might not have been so bothered. The fact is it is hard to find a place that you feel you can really trust. We read about unscrupulous places on these pages ALL the time.

Yet there remain a few holdouts who still cling to the concept that it takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but only a moment to destroy it. And they conduct their business and hiring practices in a way that reflects that. But they seem so rare sometimes they stick out like a sore thumb. I guess that's why folks get so excited when they're able to post about a business that treated them fair and square.

Nobody posts about businesses that treat them right. The fact of the matter is, people conduct business and use 100s, if not 1000s, of products and services every day. They never take the time or expend the effort to give those businesses and services props. They only make that effort when something goes egregiously wrong.