R
redacted
Guest
OW training can be a money looser deal..I had a weekend schedule up and had 2 people in it. One of the students only could make Friday night. The schedule was for AFri-Sat-Sun..so this became a 1 person course. This person only purchased required mask/snkl/fins..So we did Fri-Sat-Sun and he was such a mess I did another pool session with him at no charge. He paid $269 for course..I get paid $300. from facility. The facility still had to cover cost of use of their pool/insurance/power..All said and done this was a loss. Should we have just canceled this class and ruin someones plans for that weekend? The 1 student had plans to leave for a vacation following week and planned on being able to go diving.
I am quites sure that specific circumstances may result in the occasional loss of $$ for a shop; but that loss was not what the shop planned. My point is that shops that charge x for OW may not make their normal profit margin for training courses at that price, but the price does not put them in a position of losing $$ with every student.