marina charges for someone to work on my boat

[rickp]

Re: marina charges for someone to work on my boat

Thats where we fundamentally disagree - the marina are only charging as a protectionist measure as they've certainly not provided any additional service beyond that for which I am already paying.

If you're happy with that - perhaps you own a marina? I'll bow out now, as this is just going around in circles.

Rick

 

[alan006]

Re: marina charges for someone to work on my boat

I naturally assumed you were a Major General but were being a bit coy. I don't know how they choose who gets promoted in the army, but I've always suspected its all about how quickly you can complete the Times crossword puzzle.

 

[lookout]

Re: marina charges for someone to work on my boat

I think it's odd though - outside a marina, larger businesses with greater investments & overheads etc etc do still manage to compete with the smaller man-in-a-van types who charge much less for the same job. How do they do it?

I do wonder if many yards that rigidly enforce the policy are actually shooting themselves in the foot tho - & certainly some seem to rely on it as a way to offer poor quality & value.

 

[DougH]

Re: marina charges for someone to work on my boat

rickp,

I am certainly nothing to do with the marine industry and am nothing but a boat owner and berth user.

You are miss understanding my point because I am not saying that you should not be able to call in a outside contractor to do any work on your boat but that the CONTRACTOR should pay something to the marina for the privilage on working on their premises.

Just like the marina operator I have invested a small fortune in my Company and I would not allow anyone from the outside to use my premises to produce similar goods without charge.(If at all)

This all comes about because we are talking about private/leisure money so perhaps we should take off our rose tinted glasses.

We are in the real world and marinas are expensive to run so perhaps a large group of the people who think the costs are too high should get together and buy a marina and try to run it at lower prices.

If they were to succeed I would be the first to say I was wrong and to applaud their efforts.

Please do not read my posts as being caustic as they are not intended to be but sometimes the written words can be misinterpreted.

 

[rickp]

Re: marina charges for someone to work on my boat

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You are miss understanding my point because I am not saying that you should not be able to call in a outside contractor to do any work on your boat but that the CONTRACTOR should pay something to the marina for the privilage on working on their premises.

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What service has the marina provided to that contractor that I have not already paid for?

Lift out and proper chocking - I've paid for it if its needed (and they even include the length the anchor overhangs, even if you take it off - the [--word removed--]!)

If the work is done in the water, I'm paying for the berth anyway.

Oil disposal? I'm paying for that already too - as I put the engine oil in the appropriate receptical when I do the oil changes.

If I did the work that the contractor was doing - there would be nothing else to pay the marina, so I do not see any valid reason for the marina to charge the contractor.

Other than "because they can" and as a protectionist measure.

And round we go again, gonna ignore this now.

Rick

 

[blueglass]

I was charged £50.00 per visit for outside contractors working on my boat on a certain upper Thames boatyard. The bill was £150.00 because the contarctor had been in the yard 3 times. Outrageous in principle anyway, but £50.00!! a day?
There was much gnashing of teeth when I refused to pay. Boatyard had omitted to mention it in the contract so there was little they could do. The work was specialist and not available onsite.
Squeezing every last drop of blood out of customers is pretty short term business sense - I left soon afterwards.