The one that always gets me is the fuel surcharge fees. I haven't
looked at the actual charges side by side from year to year but when gas
is less than $2/gal it is just annoying to see. I first though about
doing it with zip codes. That would be a really easy query. I just do
not want to maintain the zip code database.
Joe
On 2/18/16 10:21 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
The big guys would probably do it with fees. Like UPS has a
residential address surcharge and a remote area surcharge, both of
which apply to most of my customers. But that doesn’t answer how to
automate it.
The Rise Broadband website asks for your address before showing
prices, but my impression is it goes by zipcode.
*From:* Joe Falaschi <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2016 9:45 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] location based pricing on website
Why bother? To me there are a lot of reasons.
1. We cover a lot of ground with 120 towers in nine counties in two
states. We upgrade towers weekly but just can't keep up at times it's
difficult to stay ahead of the demand for more speed.
2. Different towers are capable of different plans based on where we
are at in the upgrade cycle. I don't want to get into a situation
where a lead thinks they can get one plan but we can only deliver a
different set in that area. Nothing will be perfect but general
groupings of towers are usually similar vintage.
3. Costs are just different. Some regions have fiber to them and
others we have to back haul via 4 or 5 licensed microwave hops to get
to the region that has fiber. Some regions cost us 2k a month per
tower and others are trade outs of an Internet account for grain
elevator placement.
4. Customer makeup. Some towers we can install DIA circuits on to
help offset costs. In rural areas we're not going to put a $1000/mo
account on the tower. In the urban or suburban areas we can blend day
time and night time usage for more effective usage of the tower rent
and back haul network even if the tower rent is more.
5. Some towers are just currently poorly performing and we have sunk
costs that we need to recoup, these would be the promo type towers.
From time to time the word does get out that one area is different.
It is what it is. We just tell them that is the case 80 miles away
but not here. The point of this whole thing is to at least not put it
in their face though.
Joe
On 2/18/16 5:46 PM, Sean Heskett wrote:
Why bother???
Why not just price your service equal for everyone and average out
your costs/income? Although we certainly could get away with pricing
rural users higher than city dwellers, I prefer to just average it
out across our network.
I think a wiser move would be to equip your sales staff with a
discount pro-mo if a client is really obtouse.
Is your price difference per area going to be greater than $10/mo??
For instance rural service is $59/mo but city service is $49/mo?
What happens when they have a friend in a different service area of
yours that gets a different price? They are gonna call and complain.
2 cents
-Sean
On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Joe Falaschi <[email protected]> wrote:
Does anyone know of an elegant solution to display a pricing page
based on a street address? I want to create a few polygons and
if the address is within polygon a, b, or c show a different
pricing page. We have a wordpress site. I've seen some google
maps example that we can probably make work if done in an
iframe. Just curious if anyone has already done this and has any
suggestions on word press plugins or google maps libraries. Thanks!
Joe Falaschi
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