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Guy Hall
Handicap: 36
Hants
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 12
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Hi,
can anyone explain to me , how the websites like teetimes.co.uk ad others selling various tee time at clubs make money ? Only wondering as I have just looked and a club that I called today near to me told me that they would charge me £45 for a round on there championship course, I explained that a website was doing tee times on the same course for £15. Just wondering how they manage to do that and stay in profit. -- 25/01/2010 19:59:22: post edited by Guy Hall.
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,955
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Hi Guy,
All these sites, teetimes, teeofftimes, reservatee etc are linked into the same collection of 300+ clubs (about 170 of the 2,500 in the UK! plus another 180 or so in Ireland).
The clubs allow online access to their tee times and let the sales companies sell them. There are then two business models - either the selling company takes commission (10-20%) or sells the tee time for free and instead gets given a couple of free tee times which they can then sell themselves and keep the money (these tee times are never the good ones which the club will always sell - so no Friday afternoon or weekend prime time etc).
Does that make sense?
Pete.
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Guy Hall
Handicap: 36
Hants
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 12
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Hi Pete,
cheers for the reply and yes it does make sense. The only part I don't understand is the site I have used on quite a few occasions , I have always in my opinion got a good tee time , ie 1030 on a Fri, 1200 on a Sat. They always seem to have decent ones available, this may change as the weather warms up though.
Cheers again
Guy...
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