[Board] Dockwa

[Pat Dowey]

Doyle,
Thank you for the information.  The Flag Officers concur that we should
cancel our dockwa subscription for this year and reevaluate renewing for
the 2021 season.
We'll see how mooring rentals go the next few months.
Best,
Pat

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:13 AM <stardot at comcast.net> wrote:

> I talked with a representative from Dockwa. They are changing their
> pricing model. They now want to charge a $199 setup fee and then $99 per
> month paid up front for the whole year ($1,188 + $199). The fact that we do
> not rent moorings from October until May did not seem to matter.
>
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> Up until now, they have been charging us about $1.23 per mooring rental.
> They arranged 106 mooring rentals for us last year (about ¼ of all rentals)
> with total fees of about $130, so they are asking for more than 10 times in
> fees this year than last.
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> Personally, I think going from $1.23 per rental to about $13 makes their
> services, in a word, way overpriced. I also think most boaters who used
> Dockwa could probably have found us and paid us directly anyway. The
> breakeven would be that if more than about 5 out of 8 of the boaters that
> used Dockwa came to us directly, Dockwa charges would be more than they are
> worth. I am also wondering if we will get as many mooring rentals this year
> as we did last considering the difficulty of going ashore while cruising,
> which makes Dockwa services even less valuable.
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> I told the Dockwa rep that I thought they were shooting themselves in the
> foot but I would get back to him. This is a BOD decision, not a Treasurer
> decision, so please confer and let me know if you want to pay Dockwa or
> politely decline.
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> Thank you,
>
> *Doyle*
>
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>
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