Is this legal???

Bird Freak wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
Just my opinion here and I am not a lawyer. If OP had paid a deposit for site I would say it was open to a price increase for the other nights not paid for. If OP paid in full I would think all nights were paid for before price increase and should be honored.

So what if the campground requires a 100% deposit?

What percentage you paid doesn't matter...it's what the contract terms set out that counts.

Example: Airlines can kick you off the plane after...you've paid in full, received your boarding card, passed thru security and are buckled into your seat. All very much legal, because the contract terms you agreed to allow for it (and no the airline doesn't walk you thru all the terms and conditions, that's your burden)

Then it is not a deposit to hold it is a paid in full contract. This is about as crazy as me selling someone a classic car on the internet and being paid in full at that time with the understanding he will pick it up at a later set date. Then telling him the prices on all our cars went up a few thousand dollars a month later. Now I tell him he owes me more for the car he already owns.
Just stupid in my opinion.

We take a deposit equal to one night's stay on one night reservations. I guess I have been treating it wrong all these years. From now on I will abide by the code of internet contract law and realize it is payment in full, completed contract. That means a one night reservation will not be subject to our deposit refund policies which is to refund all but a processing fee when cancelled within the cancellation period. This saves me a lot of work refunding those deposits and re-renting the site. And that doesn't even take into account the fact that paid for, but unused sites don't use any utilities, don't require cleaning, don't ever require any customer service so they are pure profit. If anyone has a problem, I will point out that to refund any money would require breaking a sacred contract and nobody wants that.
Thanks for pointing out the errors of my ways.

If this is what you got out of my opinion then maybe you are not as bright as I thought.

You were very clear that a 100% deposit is not a deposit, but rather a completed contract. If that is indeed a fact, then any cancellation request by the customer would be a request to break that contract. Are you suggesting that breaking contracts should be an intregal aspect of good business processes? If not, the alternative would be for both parties to honorthat contract and consider that site rented to the customer whether they intend to arrive or not.