Insane - Elliot Cycle Tour Price Increase

[Cellar]

I get your point, but at the same time it is very inappropriate to voice your opinion on-line about whether a price from a service provider is fair, low or high without understanding the business case. Note that these people can only make cash once or twice a year during big bike races, so the cash that they make in March has to stretch another 9 months until say the 94.7?

 

So I guess my point is that unless you have all of the figures in front of you, I don't think you should comment on somebody else's perceived earnings in a public forum.

 

And clearly you don't.

 

This a massive international company that conducts business year round, and doesn't have only two days in which to make money. They aren't hiring casual labour for this one event, they are using their existing infrastructure.

 

The rest of your rant is completely pointless and irrelevant. Why do sites like hellopeter exist? Why do companies have representatives on forums and social media platforms? To address random strangers complaints.

 

Talk about logic, you have none.

Edited February 1, 2014 by Cellar

[feetup]

The problem with us "South Africans" are that we are too self opinionated and polite so we end up without unity.

 

If we united with any issues within our land,the problem would be solved sooner rather than later.

 

If we are unhappy,contact the source in unity and solve it! 1000 complaints to the source is far better then 100 complaints here to each other.

 

The only bitching(i just like this word-no intention) i do is when my legs won't listen to me on those damn killer climbs

Edited February 1, 2014 by feetup

[rudi-h]

And clearly you don't.

 

This a massive international company that conducts business year round, and doesn't have only two days in which to make money. They aren't hiring casual labour for this one event, they are using their existing infrastructure.

 

The rest of your rant is completely pointless and irrelevant. Why do sites like hellopeter exist? Why do companies have representatives on forums and social media platforms? To address random strangers complaints.

 

Talk about logic, you have none.

 

I never claimed to know anything about the business case of elliot, but neither do you and neither does the OP. So what i'm saying is that their business decisions and pricing structures are none of your business. If it costs too much, fly your own bike down or use their competition. Its a free market out there.

 

These guys have worked hard and long to market their brand, build a customer base and a establish a level of service that they believe they can sell for a certain premium. They have communicated and published their price clearly in the same way that a garage quick shop publishes that they sell a can of coke for R10 which you can buy in P&P for R6. They haven't done you or the OP any wrong, the same way that a garage quick shop has not done you any wrong by "over-charging" R4 for a can of coke. So seeing that they haven't done you any wrong, they also do not deserve the associated negative publicity? If they however sold you a coke at R10 that was flat or tasted like cream soda, its a different story altogether...

 

Sites like hellopeter exist to create a platform for customers to create public awareness IN THE EVENT that poor service has been rendered to a customer. You don't get a hellopeter equivalent for companies to name and shame companies publicly based on their price lists alone...

 

PS no need to get personal

[Skylark]

^^ what are you on about?

You mention it's a free market. Well we are also free to voice our opinions and the increase is large and unjustified, ie from their info given they are just price gouging which any reasonable person does not enjoy or keep quite about....... Unless you are someway connected to the company...

And no one needs a business degree or any inside knowledge of the company to work that out, the increase is not due to a value add or increased input costs.

[rudi-h]

nevermind... maybe you guys should start a site thebitchandmoanaboutpricessa.co.za and then you can complain about expensive stuff that you cant afford all day long.

 

I don't have any ties to the company and I didn't even know they existed for that matter. As a fellow business owner, I just thought that this level of negative publicity is a very low blow that the owner(s) did not deserve.

 

PS good luck to any of you guys should you ever one day try to do something on your own, its harder than you think, even without some hubbers throwing sticks in your spokes along the way...

[Skylark]

Ey you are talking k4k!

I started my own business, so now no one incl my customers can question my product or prices because it's just so hard to run a business and they don't know what they talking about because they don't own business's

Ja right.

Plenty hubbers own and run business and the debate is not about the price itself but the radical and unsubstantiated price increase.

But anyway as has been pointed out there are other reasonably priced delivery services so people can vote with their feet

[Night Trans]

R1500 a bike is way over the top. We are only charging R895 and R1295 per tandem.

Give us a try. We are the oldest in the business.

www.nighttrans.co.za