WDW1974
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CBOMB
It's not about a mere price increase Jake. It's become about the constant price increases year after year. I just no longer feel that I am getting the quality experience I was before. I know there are many that feel differently, but that's just how I feel....
So you see Jake I thought long, and hard about WDW, and the little insignificant price increases they have once or twice or three times a year. I finally decided to speak with my wallet. I know it's of no significance to Disney, but it is to me.
And, I was gonna bow out of this discussion, is exactly my feelings. Disney hasn't priced me out of very much of late (not for lack of trying). I did spend 11 days in Orlando in July (am headed back in December and possibly this month) and just got back from visits to DLP and DL.
But their 'brand' doesn't hold the same value to me it once did. And while that should worry the hell out of them, since they hooked me as a child and have earned decades of loyalty and business from me, my family and friends, it doesn't. They'd rather have someone who doesn't understand how they operate as a business. They'd rather have someone who doesn't recall what Disney quality meant in 1979 or 1989 or 1999 vs. today.
Losing your most loyal (and forgiving) customers is bad business (I took enough business classes to know), but that doesn't seem to worry them one iota.
And it has nothing to do with a $2 parking increase that will never impact me. (I'll also suggest here the more Disney nickels and dimes guests, the more likely they are to do things that are in the gray moral area themselves, like parking at DD for free ... and taking buses to parks ... or parking at resorts again for free ... and I've heard folks are starting to do just that at places that aren't the typical monorail resorts used to it ... like at ASMu or OKW for example)
So, I think it's very simplistic to chalk up moves like these as purely what the market will bear ... sometimes the market bears plenty, but that doesn't reflect the bare facts and anger in the consumer.
Disney has never been cheap.
But it's also never been known for such gouging tactics as it now employs on everything from parking to dining to paying extra for holiday entertainment.
Originally Posted by CBOMB
It's not about a mere price increase Jake. It's become about the constant price increases year after year. I just no longer feel that I am getting the quality experience I was before. I know there are many that feel differently, but that's just how I feel....
So you see Jake I thought long, and hard about WDW, and the little insignificant price increases they have once or twice or three times a year. I finally decided to speak with my wallet. I know it's of no significance to Disney, but it is to me.
And, I was gonna bow out of this discussion, is exactly my feelings. Disney hasn't priced me out of very much of late (not for lack of trying). I did spend 11 days in Orlando in July (am headed back in December and possibly this month) and just got back from visits to DLP and DL.
But their 'brand' doesn't hold the same value to me it once did. And while that should worry the hell out of them, since they hooked me as a child and have earned decades of loyalty and business from me, my family and friends, it doesn't. They'd rather have someone who doesn't understand how they operate as a business. They'd rather have someone who doesn't recall what Disney quality meant in 1979 or 1989 or 1999 vs. today.
Losing your most loyal (and forgiving) customers is bad business (I took enough business classes to know), but that doesn't seem to worry them one iota.
And it has nothing to do with a $2 parking increase that will never impact me. (I'll also suggest here the more Disney nickels and dimes guests, the more likely they are to do things that are in the gray moral area themselves, like parking at DD for free ... and taking buses to parks ... or parking at resorts again for free ... and I've heard folks are starting to do just that at places that aren't the typical monorail resorts used to it ... like at ASMu or OKW for example)
So, I think it's very simplistic to chalk up moves like these as purely what the market will bear ... sometimes the market bears plenty, but that doesn't reflect the bare facts and anger in the consumer.
Disney has never been cheap.
But it's also never been known for such gouging tactics as it now employs on everything from parking to dining to paying extra for holiday entertainment.
I guess that makes me part of the problem.
Duckberg
