Will Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Adrian Stott wrote:
>> The "mooring situation" is not a monopoly issue. It is a supply, >> demand, and pricing issue. >> >So you have said many times before. Personally I think it is >worth another shot. On what grounds do they justify increases >above inflation. The cost of running a mooring doesn't increase >beyond inflation each year. Why should the price of a mooring bear any relationship to inflation? Why should the price of a mooring vary with the cost of running the mooring? That simply isn't how the market works. That price will depend on supply and demand. At present, demand exceeds supply, so the price will go up (and is doing so in most places, I believe). I would expect that to be the basis of BW's defence in any Ombudsman complaint. And I would expect BW to be successful. For mooring prices to come down, there will either will have to be more moorings, or fewer boats on the water. But at present the number of boats is continuing to increase, and creation of moorings is AIUI not keeping up. Steve Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Can I suggest that BW have very effectively blown that myth away by >refusing to let moorings which don't reach their arbitrary unpublished >reserve in the recent moorings tender process. Of course you can suggest it. But you would be incorrect. The reason BW has a reserve price on its moorings is that it is (most unfortunately) insisting on sealed bidding in the moorings auctions. Since under that approach no-one knows what the highest current bid is in any auction, that bid could be very low. If the bidding were open, other bidders would usually appear with higher bids until the highest current bid were more reasonable. Since this doesn't happen with sealed bidding, a reserve is set instead. >As a matter of interest will those who have gone through the tender >process have the increase applied to them? The accepted bid will be the annual rent for the mooring concerned. It will remain fixed for three years AIUI. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
