How does the pre pay pricing work?!
May 6, 2010 | 3:19 pm
#1
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Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 237
How does the pre pay pricing work?!
Just noticed that the pre pay price of my car seems to be going up by about £1 per day. Im doing the same dates all the time.
What is bemusing is that the price for next week is also identical, so its nothing to do with availability or advance bookings. Why is the price just being raised ever so slightly every day? Surely at this rate it will just go up and up and up - how the hell does that work?!
What is bemusing is that the price for next week is also identical, so its nothing to do with availability or advance bookings. Why is the price just being raised ever so slightly every day? Surely at this rate it will just go up and up and up - how the hell does that work?!
May 6, 2010 | 5:25 pm
#2
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Easton, CT, USA
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That's no different then most bookings, as you get closer you could end up paying more if you don't lock it in.
Prepay is a gamble, they want you to think if you don't jump now it will cost more tomorrow, which in your case, it does.
Prepay is a gamble, they want you to think if you don't jump now it will cost more tomorrow, which in your case, it does.
May 6, 2010 | 5:37 pm
#3
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Join Date: May 2008
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Yeah I get that, but its not getting more expensive as the time gets closer, the standard pre pay price for any date in the coming year is getting more expensive.
Surely it cant just continue going up and up, otherwise it will be ridiculously expensive and no one will go for it?
I have a suspicion they throttle the prices to make people jump for it.
Surely it cant just continue going up and up, otherwise it will be ridiculously expensive and no one will go for it?
I have a suspicion they throttle the prices to make people jump for it.
May 6, 2010 | 5:52 pm
#4
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Prepay works because there's no choice. They use it only when they're deeply undercapacity for expectations so that can charge like crazy and we pay as though we're crazy also. Solution: don't go to insanely popular locations at insanely popular times. Now if I can just find out when they all are, in advance, and rearrange my clients too...
May 7, 2010 | 3:20 am
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Just noticed that the pre pay price of my car seems to be going up by about £1 per day. Im doing the same dates all the time.
What is bemusing is that the price for next week is also identical, so its nothing to do with availability or advance bookings. Why is the price just being raised ever so slightly every day? Surely at this rate it will just go up and up and up - how the hell does that work?!
What is bemusing is that the price for next week is also identical, so its nothing to do with availability or advance bookings. Why is the price just being raised ever so slightly every day? Surely at this rate it will just go up and up and up - how the hell does that work?!
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cal