GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
More-or-less completely standard in cph.
Rent-a-Bike Ripoff
- Thread starter StuartG
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GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
For smaller/lower value items (like bikes, comparative to cars) it would make no sense to rent them out as a percentage of their cost. e.g. I played badminton the other day and forgot my shuttlecocks. It was £2.50 to rent 3 plastic ones. You can buy them in shops for £1 each, so pretty much the same as the rental price. If you factored in that you can use each one about 5-10 times, it would be pointless renting them out for 25p.
But also, people charge what people are willing to pay. most people want a car so there is lots of competition. It often has little to do with the price/value of the rented item.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
And pretty much everywhere. No idea where cph or sthlm are.
Suspect that the OP has just looked at headline daily rental rate. To be honest for a 1 day €20 isn't bad, on a par with Mallorca. It was €40 in Bedoin, all for the pleasure of riding up a f@@king big windy hill
Unless I am doing a long (2 week+) tour, I rent a bike, the costs are the same in BCN, Malaga & Valencia, but all those places offer a good discount for 7+ days hire, It's likely they do in the Canaries too.
You have 3 choices. Take your own bike. Buy a bike. Rent. The latter is more convenient, no hassle and cheaper. It's not a rip off
You have 3 choices. Take your own bike. Buy a bike. Rent. The latter is more convenient, no hassle and cheaper. It's not a rip off
bigjim
Legendary Member
- Location
- Manchester. UK
Bike shops are now offering insurance as an extra with dire warnings about not having it. Plus the €10 wash fee if it is not returned as clean as they would like it. Pedals and helmets are also now extras. Deposit as well on the bike. Years ago all this would be thrown in. I believe they are starting to follow the car hire model. I often just shrug and pay up, but only because the airlines are making it so difficult to fly with your own bike. Does not mean that I like or agree with it. I think some are getting a bit pedantic with the Ripoff word by the way.
You cannot compare the two. Both are running a busisness with most likely similar costs except the product (ie wages, rent, taxes etc). Car's are rented in much greater quantities and as such will be far more competitive. Bikes are hired out a fraction of the amount of cars. So to be sustainable the rate compared to the cost of what you are hiring is gong to be much cheaper. Hiring a hall for a day might cost 5 times as much as a car. Nobody expects it to be 40 times as much as a hall to purchase is 40 times as much as a car?
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Hire bikes take a fair bit of looking after. They are returned dirty with wheels that need truing, chains that need a lube, gears out of tune etc. Years ago I got talking to a guy who hired out mountain bikes and he reckoned he often spent half the night cleaning, fettling and adjusting to get them back into a condition where they could be hired out again. Most car hire companies change their vehicles when the have less than 15k on the clock and all they needed in that time is a wash. They are purchased with a substantial discount and often a guaranteed buy back price that is more or less what they paid for them to begin with.
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
When I was a kid you could climb on the cannon, now the're all fenced off.
Just checked & BikeHut in Rhyl charge £9.99 for four hours, £14.99 for seven hours.
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When you were a kid the cannons were probably still in use!
A hall doesn't need to be replaced every few years.
Depends who built it!
