DZ Annual Fees

[Greene 0]

Your reply to Prhree Zones post.


Your quote to his post

"Which means occasional visitors get to subsidize the "locals"

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[bch7773 0]

my dz is actually a college club, and so we pay $10 per semister ($20 bucks a year). We also do our gear rentel fees the same way... its $25 per semister to use the club gear as many times as you want.
I've never bothered to ask exactly what the membership fee goes to... I imagine its helps pay for the plane and such.

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[Tonto 1]

With you there.

Our DZ is a club, and all profit goes back into improving the DZ. In the last 2 yearsm we've built a hangar, a classroom, 2 briefing rooms and a bush pub. Equipment gets replaced and we're currently lawning our landing area.

When the DZ is a business, the jumpers are paying for the DZO's kids education etc. Sure, we pay for AFF, camera, Tandem etc, but to earn money from the club, you need to be a member.

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[kallend 2,115]

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Your reply to Prhree Zones post.


Your quote to his post

"Which means occasional visitors get to subsidize the "locals"

SG

Well, let's see. He wrote


The places that have annual fee's tend to have prices a Dollar or so lower then the rest of the DZ's in the area in my experience.

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I replied:


Which means occasional visitors get to subsidize the locals.


How does that conversation apply to Greene County?

If you don't charge an annual fee, my comment doesn't apply to you at all, does it?

If you charge an annual fee and drop the price of your jumps, I'm right.

If you charge an annual fee AND charge full freight for the jumps, there are no words bad enough to describe you.

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[Greene 0]

Damn you
I thought I had you, and would be the first to prove you wrong on something, anything!

I was referring to registration fees, and misread the post as to 'annual fees or dues".

Thanks for making this old bird realize to 'read and then comphrend what you just read".

Lee

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[kallend 2,115]

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Damn you
I thought I had you, and would be the first to prove you wrong on something, anything!



Lee

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[Greene 0]

Your answer was exactly what I would have expected from you.

If I had been responding to my post, that would have been my exact response.
I will be watching your posts and if ever again I think you have screwed up, I will let you know.

Lee
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[SkyPsycho 0]

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I realize it may be needed, I know the bills have to be paid, but what makes it different than other DZs i've been to?

I'm really not complaining, just wondering. Thought it was odd that I've only seen it in New Jersey.

dood, dont you know that anything in new jersey you get charged for? how many places can you actually drive to here on a highway and not have to pay a toll.........every few miles.......

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[SkyPsycho 0]

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Some DZ's are actually clubs. Paying dues makes you a club member and you get cheaper jump rates. Most of the work around the DZ is done by club members and that helps keep costs down. I don't mind paying club dues at all.

the ranch does this.......50 bucks for the year......you dont have to pay it but the jumps are 2 bucks cheaper

ok im editing this again.......im thinking is a buck cheaper....i know a few years ago it was 13 for club members and 15 for non........im thinking its 16.50 now for members and 17.50 for non........it went up .50 cents a few weeks ago probably to make up for less jumpers over the winter

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[Nightingale 0]

that would be a good thing, if you're planning on more than 25 jumps.

[AndyMan 7]

In my expeirence, annual fees are standard at "skydiving clubs", but are rarely at for-profit businesses.

Just because a DZ is big, doesn't mean it isn't a club rather then a business. The Ranch, for example, is a club - and I believe has membership dues. Crosskeys is a business, and doesn't (i think).

I started jumping at Frontier, near Niagara Falls, and they were a club. Fees went towards non-jump related expenses, the buildings, electricity bills, etc. Revenue for jump tickets just paid for plane,pilot,fuel, and insurance. The idea was that the fees helped keep jump ticket prices low. I think it did.

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[kallend 2,115]

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Your answer was exactly what I would have expected from you.

If I had been responding to my post, that would have been my exact response.
I will be watching your posts and if ever again I think you have screwed up, I will let you know.

Lee
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[Jimbo 0]

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Crosskeys is a business, and doesn't (i think).

CK does charge an annual fee. I don't mind paying it though. We've got great facilities, pizza on Saturday, the Tiki bar, the deck, an amazing fleet of aircraft, cheap jumps, nice showers (nicer than a lot I've seen)... I could go on.

Anyhow, the fee is $15.00 a year and goes to pay for all of the nice extras that you don't find at a lot of other DZs.

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[bendywendy 0]

CrossKeys does charge a fee but they have low jump tickets and lots of extras like the free pizza and beer on Saturdays. If you think your $15.00 a year comes even close to helping cover the costs of maintenance and all the other things you're crazy. If understand that if you are only showing up to do a couple of jumps that it sucks (they do have a daily rate as well) but if you are jumping there regularly - it's smarter to pay the $15 and have the lower jump ticket.