Need 4 to go. Pompano Dive Center 4 wrecks on 1/10/2020
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johndiver999
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A dive operation which is open, up front and honest and explicitly says: "we will need X people to run". Is being honest.
A diver who deliberately books multiple charters on the same day with the intent to cancel all of them but one, is NOT being honest. Even if he follows the 24-hr cancellation period.
It is amazing to me that certain individuals are unable to make the distinction between the two. People seem to have less and less respect for ethics and honestly.
Also, the comment that a charter that must cancel due to low booking or mechanical or staffing issues, will automatically leave the divers who have booked hanging is NOT true (in many cases). I know a lot of reputable charters that will go out of their way to find an alternative booking with a competitor when they, themselves must cancel.
A diver who deliberately books multiple charters on the same day with the intent to cancel all of them but one, is NOT being honest. Even if he follows the 24-hr cancellation period.
It is amazing to me that certain individuals are unable to make the distinction between the two. People seem to have less and less respect for ethics and honestly.
Also, the comment that a charter that must cancel due to low booking or mechanical or staffing issues, will automatically leave the divers who have booked hanging is NOT true (in many cases). I know a lot of reputable charters that will go out of their way to find an alternative booking with a competitor when they, themselves must cancel.
Go ahead and check a few websites especially around Pompano which is where I'm hoping to dive next next week. You'll see a schedule with booking software that allows them to take your money to reserve your spot and there's nothing whatsoever about minimum divers to run. I know that there are minimums because I always ask. Because I've gotten shut out of dives on perfectly good dive days for that very reason.
The half dozen Pompano and Boynton Ops I spoke to said nothing more than "We'll let you know the day before". Sometimes as late as the evening before, when it's too late to book elsewhere.
Nothing to do with being open, upfront, and honest. Everything to do with maximizing my chances of diving after traveling and incurring significant expense to get there. I'm abiding by their policy of canceling outside of the minimum window, and as long as I do so there is nothing wrong with my strategy whether I book with 5 dive Ops or 500 dive Ops no matter what the reason.
Everything to do with different goals. Divers want to dive, dive Ops want to make money. Where there's overlap, everyone's happy. Where the needs diverge is where opposition and conflict occurs.
So what if I book 2 weeks ahead and ultimately cancel 2 days out. They're no worse off than if I never called at all.
See the difference is, in the last 24 hours everyone here thinks that you're a tool. But for the last 10 years everyone here has known that I'm a tool so they're not surprised.
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