Re: repeats

richard (leigh@sedona.net)
Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:29:49 -0700


>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:29:02 -0700
>To: riveraccess@hydrosphere.com
>From: richard <leigh@sedona.net>
>Subject: Re: repeats
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>I wish to interject, once again, who is a repeater? Just focusing on the
>alleged repeater problem ignores the commercial sector repeaters, the
>companies and their owners, employees, and guests, who often times know
>crews by name, specify who they wish to go with, etc. If repeat use of
>the canyon is to be regarded as a problem, then examine the entire
>spectrum, not just the private.
>
>I don't beleive that spending much time trying to figure out how to
>squeeze a trip or two out of the private sector is going to do much to
>relieve the pressure on a list growing more than twice as fast as people
>are allowed to respond.
>
>The other factor here is that most repeaters...probably all are not even
>on the wait list, so they displace no one. I have never had my own trip
>(and I would like to), in 15 years of boating. If you want to go, and are
>available for other peoples trips, you are a nut if you put your name on
>the list. After your second trip, you lose, you're off the list. Most
>likely, if you really wish to go, you will go twice in your now 20 year
>plus wait for your own trip...bye, bye big bucks.
>
>Finally, most people I know, myself included get to go after an invite
>that goes something like this: phone call "...hey, there's a trip
>happening on day x, three weeks from now, they're desperate, they have 12
>people, but no boats, and only one person has been down before...can you
>do it...they really need someone, do you know anyone else that can go
>right now?" If you answer yes, then you go, if no then the networking
>continues.
>
>In my opinion, this is the only part of the system that actually works,
>and falls under the reasonable "time" limitations.
>
>Please note, that 40% cancellation is b.s., does not exist. The
>cancellation rate has run between 16% and 30% for the past few years,
>according to NPS stats. Forty is the number of trips that cancelled so
>far this year. To use this stat is some sort of re-enfocement for the
>GCROA outfitters that the private world is made up of a bunch of flakes.
>
>Ta ta, or as the Tahitians say
>Na Na
>
>Ricardo/ aka Richard
>
>Don't notice spelling errors, so what
>
>

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