Requests to Reduce Price
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A year in and I'm still naively hand-crafting email replies to enquiries, answering specific points etc etc, in the strange belief that they will actually reply. It sort of restores my sunny faith in human nature when someone actually replies saying thanks, but they've found somewhere else or whatever.
There again, how many of us follow up on similar things? I asked a couple of listing sites for their rates and they responded. I fell about laughing and binned it. Guilty as charged, then....
There again, how many of us follow up on similar things? I asked a couple of listing sites for their rates and they responded. I fell about laughing and binned it. Guilty as charged, then....
Jacqueline, I think it's more a case of having to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your princeJacqueline wrote:I am with holiday lettings and late deals do not seem to work for me,i get lots of hits and very few enquiries but no bookings.
I must be doing something wrong i think ?
Jacqueline
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I've just been turned down by a French lady who said that my apartment is outwith her means (prices clearly stated on the site she enquired from and I gave her a small discount at the outset as the booking was for three weeks) and although she didn't ask for a discount she did ask if I had a less luxurious apartment I could rent to her (I only have the one apartment). Have referred her to my agent but also reminded her of the plus points of our apartment which she may take into consideration, will wait and see.
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we had an enquiry for 1 of our villas for y weeks in august. Gave them 600 pounds off. they came back and said seemed very expensive so we wrote back and explained about high season etc and asked them what they thought a reasonable price would be. Not had any reply. Getting fed up with low budgeters expecting us to reduce. If you cant afford it book an apartment, town house or lower your expectations. Our discount seekwer
Same here. We had an enquiry from someone wanting to book the house for a long weekend that straddled both peak Easter weeks...but wanted a discount on our weekly rate! We offered to let them have the cleaning included (because it was a late booking) but no other reduction on the rate for a full week. We never heard back from them and, TBH, I was relieved. After I sent the email I thought that the fact that they didn't want to clean after themselves may well have suggested that they were likely to be more messy...and if they think the price, linen, cleaning is negotiable what other house rules are they likely to ignore? Visions of blocked septic tanks etc come to mind...