I hesitate to get wet again, but what the heck? The water is very warm.
The most intelligent observation offered in this whole thread is this:
"Villages.net is a private for profit company."
This fact sums up and ends the conversation does it not? Like every such business, it boils down to one question for the customer: Is the service received worth the price?
If the answer is no, then the solution is very easy: Cancel your subscription. Then use the phone system. You can make a reservation in two minutes or less. It is VERY EASY. If the answer is yes, then shut up already and go play golf.
Oh I suppose, if enough people complained about their property taxes and bugged their representatives to death then something might change...OH I'M SORRY. I forgot. We were talking about an $8/month voluntary payment, not a mandatory $500/month for taxes (I tend to focus on things that really cost money, not 3 or 4 beers a month. Again I apologize).
Maybe you all should make this the issue of 2009 and force the district to ante up and pay an annual fee to the villages.net so that all residents can access the tee time system, "for free", as some say. Wouldn't that solve your problem? Money you can't see is money you wouldn't be spending right? Those poor kids at the villages. net would probably love that. Then they wouldn't have to hear you complainers go on about EIGHT DOLLARS day after day after day after day after day.
To the issue of all the computations offered, know that every one is 100% off the mark. You all are just guessing. Do you even know how many subscribers there are? I certainly do not. Without that, you can't even write the first number down on paper. It's a jolly waste of time. Plus it costs you an extra blood pressure pill. Why would you do that to yourselves?
Even villages07, who, with his experience as IT development manager KNOWS THE COST of "an" online system, saying that "this is no $2M/year system" [is there a tee time system on your resume by chance? Would you happen to know anything about the complexities involved? That isn't meant to be a rhetorical question...I really would like you to explain some aspects of its to us], let me say this:
It must be isn't it? After all, it IS generating $2M of greed to the developer (according to your calculations).
This is way over the top I know. But gee whiz people, it gets so old. Take your 8 bucks and drive to a course outside of the Villages for gosh sakes. Sure it cost money to get there, but "BY GOD, I was able to call them up and reserve a tee time, FOR FREE."
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