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10-04-2007, 01:18 PM
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Proper interpretation of room rates.
A friend of mine has a place that he is renting out at $750 a week, or $125 per day.
If someone rents 2 weeks, it's clearly $1500. If someone rents 2 days, it's clearly $250. If someone rents for 11 days, should it be $750 + 4*$125, or should it be 11/7 * $750? -RMJ 
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10-04-2007, 01:25 PM
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Re: Proper interpretation of room rates.
This is a decent question. I think the charge should probably be (11/7) * $750. It sort of depends on why he's offering a discount for full week rentals.
If it's because it's kind of a hassle to arrange a rental period, so longer rentals save him time arranging more rentals, then the full 11 days should be at the lower rate. If it's because it's at a vacation type destination, where many/most customers are going to stay for exactly one week, and tehrefore having a place available for only half of a week means that the place will probably stay empty... that would be an argument for charging $750 + 4 * $125.
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10-04-2007, 01:25 PM
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Re: Proper interpretation of room rates.
750 * 11/7 is the right answer.
The idea is simply that the discount is for people that are staying extended amounts of time. Why would you charge them more for those 4 extra days? The only exception might be if certain days of the week are higher in demand than others or if a typical "rental period" is for one week. That is, if renting out the place for those 4 days would cause him to lose out on renting it out for a full week from someone else.
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10-04-2007, 01:31 PM
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Re: Proper interpretation of room rates.
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The idea is simply that the discount is for people that are staying extended amounts of time. Why would you charge them more for those 4 extra days? [/ QUOTE ] To encourage them to stay for 2 weeks instead of 1.5
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10-04-2007, 02:13 PM
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Re: Proper interpretation of room rates.
perplexity nailed it.
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10-04-2007, 02:25 PM
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Re: Proper interpretation of room rates.
R,
This is a retarded poll and thread. It is whatever he chooses. Guy can choose to apply discounts based on blocks of time, based on total time, starting at a certain point, whatever. Most similar common real-world parallel would probably be a car rental place, which would be $750 + $125/day. But it's just as valid for him to make it $107.xx/day for stays 7-days or longer. Therefore, poll and thread are just dumb.
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10-04-2007, 02:34 PM
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Re: Proper interpretation of room rates.
El D,
I disagree that this is a retarded poll... an indication (but, not proof) of this can be seen by the votes, which thus far are fairly well split. While it is obvious that it is whatever the guy chooses, the problem is that the rates were written as in the original post without further clarification. Someone books for 11 days and is confirmed. The question now is, if he gives the guy the bill for the higher amount, perhaps he gets some backlash. If he gives the price at the lower amount, then he loses out on potential money. The question as posed has more to do with what the proper interpretation of the rates is given that there were no further clarifying clauses (i.e. What would the typical person expect to be charged?) -RMJ
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