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The poll is about demand for the resource and who actually owns the property rights to it does not really matter. Paying taxes does not necessarily establish a right to a public good. As a florida tax payer and a state resource owner i would expect the public sector to cover its expenses with use fees as well...Originally Posted by fixxervi6
"With regard to cave diving, the great thing is to be carried where you could not have imagined you would ever be, and then to come back alive."
"Wilderness. The word itself is music." Abbey, Desert Solitaire
My problem with a poll like this is that it plants the seed in the minds of those that have the power to create special "user fees".
I would like to dive Wakulla and Sally Ward someday, my willingness to pay is $10/day or 43.50 (+tax)/year.
Last edited by Line Squirrel; 02-25-2009 at 04:46 AM.
It's bad luck to be superstitious.
I'm willing to pay all the way up to the $86 family rate - per year.
Bob K
200 to Big O vs 300 at Wakulla
Ok so what do I get paying these prices and what they cover?
200 to Big O:
- boat ride there and back
- DM/safety/gear monkey :/
- do my own dive plan
- dive the way I want
- covers fuel, maintainece, & captains time
(side note: i still think this is to much for 1 tec dive. up in the NE we pay 200-250 for two dives at the site and we travel same distances or farther.)
300 at Wakulla:
-guide (assuming thats included in the price) that may be less experience then you or is on OC and you are on RB or other way around
-have to dive how they want/by their plan (hence why i dont usually dive where i need a guide)
- what if you don't wanna go in that far on your first dive and just check out the 1st half, etc?
-cost covers guide, what else?
-taxes go to this since its state owned
Well since this is in the name of research, let me be a bit more clear in my answer. Yes, there is a price that I would be willing to pay to dive Wakulla and/or Sally. I haven't really thought hard about what it is, but off the cuff I'd say well below $100.
However, if you're going to force a 'guide' to dive with me then I wouldn't pay ANY price...even if it was only $1.
Brian
Thanks...that is exactly what we are after. I'm not sure I understand your strong feeling with regard to a guide but i certainly respect it and will look carefully as to how we word the experience that we will be trying to value. Bill
"With regard to cave diving, the great thing is to be carried where you could not have imagined you would ever be, and then to come back alive."
"Wilderness. The word itself is music." Abbey, Desert Solitaire
At the end of the day either way what do you have...an experience that you paid a price for. I am reminded a bit about the mastercard commercial...tickets $x, food $x, ..., an evening with a significant other...priceless. I know a dive is not priceless...just trying to get a feel on what the upperbound is
"With regard to cave diving, the great thing is to be carried where you could not have imagined you would ever be, and then to come back alive."
"Wilderness. The word itself is music." Abbey, Desert Solitaire
yeah but the cost for that experience is way to much and not something I am willing to pay.
Hey that's fine, a willingness to pay differs between people based on their preferences. What i am doing is trying to find the upper bound on the prices that we are placing in the survey. Demand in economics is negatively sloped (an indirect relationship between price and quantity demanded) as price goes up quantity demanded goes down and vice versa. The upper bound, called a choke price, is the price where demand is zero. Looking at the poll i would say it is a bit higher than $300 given nearly 20% will pay that..of course i am not sure that this convenience sample is representative. Bill
"With regard to cave diving, the great thing is to be carried where you could not have imagined you would ever be, and then to come back alive."
"Wilderness. The word itself is music." Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Bill
How much would you pay to freeze your ass off at 50', then 40', then 30',then 20', then 10' ? Oh, say for about 120 minutes?
How much would you pay for a nude lap dance from Rosanne Barr?
How much would you pay to get your testicles bit off by a badger?
I believe that all three of these are about as un appealing, and at $300.00, overpriced.
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When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shiat on your hood?" John Prine 4-7-2020
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Under the rocks, and stones; there is water underground" Talking Heads
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