snoloco
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- Jan 1, 2021
With so many new lifts being built, you also have many old lifts being retired, and with that comes chair sales. There are many ways to go about it, and this ski area in Idaho demonstrated what not to do.
They made it a race. People had to physically line up. Since everyone knew there were limited quantities, some people lined up as early as 4am for a sale beginning at 10am. By 8, there were more cars in line than there were chairs. People waited for hours, only to not get a chair. This was an in-person sale, but even if it's an online sale, you still shouldn't make it a race.
Everyone should get a chance within a predefined time frame. This can be done with an auction, where the chairs go to the highest bidders, or a raffle where everyone pays the same amount, and the winners are randomly selected. Those who don't get chairs should get a refund in both instances. In both cases, the proceeds should also go to charity.
Another thing that happened was people buying as many as 10 chairs with the intention of reselling them at a profit. It should have been limited to one per vehicle. While the resort claims that some people were picking up chairs for others and paid with multiple checks, I'm sure just as many were planning to resell.
Hopefully resorts looking to have chair sales learn from other's mistakes and do it right. I would hate to see chair sales discontinued altogether because some resorts did them the wrong way and pissed a lot of people off.
They made it a race. People had to physically line up. Since everyone knew there were limited quantities, some people lined up as early as 4am for a sale beginning at 10am. By 8, there were more cars in line than there were chairs. People waited for hours, only to not get a chair. This was an in-person sale, but even if it's an online sale, you still shouldn't make it a race.
Everyone should get a chance within a predefined time frame. This can be done with an auction, where the chairs go to the highest bidders, or a raffle where everyone pays the same amount, and the winners are randomly selected. Those who don't get chairs should get a refund in both instances. In both cases, the proceeds should also go to charity.
Another thing that happened was people buying as many as 10 chairs with the intention of reselling them at a profit. It should have been limited to one per vehicle. While the resort claims that some people were picking up chairs for others and paid with multiple checks, I'm sure just as many were planning to resell.
Hopefully resorts looking to have chair sales learn from other's mistakes and do it right. I would hate to see chair sales discontinued altogether because some resorts did them the wrong way and pissed a lot of people off.
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