 Poster: A snowHead
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My French is very poor and I don't trust my interpretation of this pdf.
The 15 day pass is €349.50 (€17 more than the 14 day pass).
then it says 'A/C du 16ème jour - Prix par jour €9'
and 'Prolongation 1 jour - €31'
I take that to mean if you book more than 15 days to begin with each extra day is €9 (quite a good rate as extra days leading up to 15 are €17), but if you book a pass then subsequently extend it that will cost you €31 (incidentally the difference between a 1 day and a two day pass).
Have I got it right?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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That looks about right.
Then again, it's French... who can tell? 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Then again, it's French... who can tell? |
People who speak French, surprisingly.
Yes that's right Pete Horn, A.C. being à compter (du) - with effect from.
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If you're guy no.1 you decide ahead of time that you want, say, 17 days on the slopes, you pay for 15days and get the extra 2 days at 9Euro per day.
If however, you've guy no.2 and you pay for 15days, get on the slopes and decide it's so wonderful you want to extend by 2 days, you get to pay 31Euro per day.
Now to my mind, guy no.2 is getting a raw deal. Like guy no.1 he's committed to paying for 15days on the snow, but has been so wowed by the resort that he wants to stay on for 2 days - but instead of rewarding him, the lift company wants to take advantage?
Words such as "typical" "b****y" come to mind, although not necessarily in that order.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Manda, all companies want to maximise their advance orders (you can borrow money against them) and improve their cashflow (it enables them to do tiresome things like pay the staff on time). Which is why it's "typical" I would guess. 
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People who speak French, surprisingly. |
Apologies PG, that wasn't meant to be a dig at French speakers or people, but rather a tongue-firmly-in-cheek allusion to a perceived French propensity for setting out the rules and procedures in print and then turning out to do something completely different in practice.
What Pete has conveniently forgotten to mention is that he's probably going to need a 30-day lift pass!! 
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laundryman, From a commercial perspective I know WHY lift companies might prefer this kind of approach, but personally I don't think it makes good commercial sense. Hence:
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instead of rewarding him, the lift company wants to take advantage
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Companies that risk pissing off customers risk killing the proverbial golden goose -translates back to cashflow & paying wages.....
You know the rest.
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For your next exercise in lift tarriff interpretation try the Les Arcs/ Paradiski pdf which doesn't include offers that they mention on the website - e.g. family discounts for 4-5 member families. The paradiski pass makes Espace Killy look tres bon marchee 
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Manda, That's an argument against all differential pricing: someone's always going to be p...d off if someone else has paid less. From a personal point of view, as a business owner, I'm always going to reward a customer that places a big order in one go ... I get to sleep easier at night and I spend less on sales. If this were such a bad idea, the practice would have died out by now -- that's the way the 'invisible hand' of the market works -- but, in fact, I think it is pervasive.
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