Sounds like they are blaming competitors.
No, they are clearly blaming the Sands Harbor Marina ownership.
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Sounds like they are blaming competitors.
I took the statement of “a time when small businesses in our industry should be banding together some choose to undermine others” to mean competition but it is followed by the new owners part, so I may have taken it wrong.No, they are clearly blaming the Sands Harbor Marina ownership.
I took the statement of “a time when small businesses in our industry should be banding together some choose to undermine others” to mean competition but it is followed by the new owners part, so I may have taken it wrong.
Rent hikes alone don’t usually cause a business to fail, often just being the last straw. I’m not familiar with them or the surrounding business but I took the vailed reference to mean perhaps they tried to raise prices hoping that everyone else do the same, maybe as an offset for the rent and didn’t get any cooperation.It's worded a bit poorly for sure.
I wonder if that's all there is to it. Probably not. I mean, if it's all about the rent, why not do something along the lines of what Miss Conduct Charters do, and run the boat out of a slip somewhere else without a retail store and have a designated pickup spot if not where the boat is kept.
They were my favorite Op in that area- with their steel Nitrox tanks and I really like their boat with the pretty speckled padded open stern area, easy online scheduling and some 2 tank double wreck dives.
Wonder what the other 2 Dive Ops are gonna do if they've got the same issue.
Where is that box of tissues
As I said in post 2, I think they read the writing on the wall and decided to bail with some of their treasure intact. They figured out how to keep a million in the dive business.Rent hikes alone don’t usually cause a business to fail, often just being the last straw. I’m not familiar with them or the surrounding business but I took the vailed reference to mean perhaps they tried to raise prices hoping that everyone else do the same, maybe as an offset for the rent and didn’t get any cooperation.
I could be wrong but this is the feeling I got from the wording.