[villages07]

Oustider,

Actually, I agree in principle with what you wrote. Where I diverge is how much is a fair price/cost for the people who use the system? Up until recently, the cost for non-Comcast subscribers was $5/month; this was increased to $8/month 6 months before all the comcast subscribers roll off their 'free' service. Unless the Developer has been heavily subsidizing the development and operation of the tee time system, this represents an enormous increase in revenue. I don't begrudge him his profit for operating a business but this increase does appear to be out of proportion.

Where your analogy to the car wash falls apart is, with the car wash there is competition and comparable alternatives.... I can go to a number of other places to get it done. With the online tee time system, there are no comparable alternatives...the phone system is not equivalent. There is no competition...it is a monopoly and the large fee increase smacks of price gouging.

I'm all for the users of the system (and not all residents) paying for their subscription and the operators making a fair profit. My gut, and this will probably be very hard to prove, is that they will be making a windfall. And, that is not fair.