Question: Gifts from TA

[trp238]

hi all gift ideas.

 

[PammyHound]

I agree, give me the best price possible and I'll buy my own bottle of wine.

 

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[SeaUThere]

My TA splits her commission with me. I get 7.5% back when I return home from my trip.

 

This is a good perk for working for the same company, but in a different division.

 

 

Grandeur of the Seas-September 4, 2004

Galaxy-June 7, 2002

Fascination-March 17, 2001

 

 

 

[Family of 14]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>

We just get good rates. If we ever get gifts, we paid for them.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

Not always so. That may have been the case for my first cruise with AAA (when I didn't know any better) and my 3rd cruise (when my Mom booked it), but since then I have shopped around and continue to shop even with my current TA. She always beats the lowest price I can find with any online or discount agents.

 

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[Chuck & Phyllis]

Email me the name of your agent and I'll book with him/her if that is so.

 

Thanks,

Chuck

 

Chuck & Phyllis

 

Doing Voyager on 5/21/04

 

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[Tybug]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Christina B.:

 

 

HERE, HERE! I whole heartedly agree. I practice the same thing at my agency! I bet online agencies don't put that much time & effort in caring about their clients as that!

 

Christina<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

As a matter of fact Christina, some of us that work for the online agencies 'DO' put that much time and effort in caring about our clients. We often rebate(lower than what's on our websites) and still send client gifts! Many agents(brick and mortar as well as online) look at selling cruises as a paycheck, others of us look at it as planning someone's dream.

 

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[Chuck & Phyllis]

I agree with tybug. One of my best friends is a discount agent and his employees work as hard as "regular TA's" as far as service is concerned.

 

Chuck & Phyllis

 

Doing Voyager on 5/21/04

 

Doing Empress on 9/18/04

 

 

[canuckcruiser68]

hello chuck&phyllis,

i give you a bit of an example. i work for a brick and mortar agency specializing in cruise but we do other vacations as well. i'm an independent consultant and as such i get 30% commission on each booking. most cruise lines pay around 16% commission on the total price of a cruise. so take a cruise average of $3000.00. that being just an inside fairly inexspensive cruise. on that booking my share of the commission (after the office gets theirs) is $262.08. what i do for my clients is when they book out of my share i discount there booking by $50 each. that comes right off the top of their price. i think that is pretty fair. i didn't get that from any agents i dealt with before

[onapea]

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[clbkatz]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by canuckcruiser68:

 

most cruise lines pay around 16% commission on the total price of a cruise. so take a cruise average of $3000.00. that being just an inside fairly inexspensive cruise.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

 

Just to be fair. Not all agencies get 16% commission. The commission depends on how much business that agency has done with that particular cruise line. So it might be 10% with one line, 13% with another and 15% with yet another. Every agency is different in what they get paid. At least that is the way it is structured in the US. I see you are in Canada. I know pricing is different (higher) in Canada, but here in the US, we don't get commission on the TOTAL cruise package. Only the cruise portion of the package. And if it is just an inside cabin like you have in your example, it is usually only around $2,000 total, with air included in that. I don't get paid commission on that total of $2000. I get commission on that total minus all port charges & taxes. And I only get a reduced rate, no more than 5%, on the air portion. So commission is not as high for some agencies as you make it out to be. I just wanted to clear that up.

 

I don't want people out there to think agencies are making $300, $400 or $500+ on an inside cabin cruise booking and not giving high priced gifts or discounts to their clients. It simply isn't true for many agencies out there. Especially for the smaller home based agencies.

[canuckcruiser68]

christina,

yes i see what you mean about different commissions. i was just trying to give round example. and when i say $3000.00 for an inside that is just a basic price. we also only get commission on base cruise fare and 5% commission on air. $3000.00 canadian just so happens to have been a base cruise fare for an inside room that i had been working on yesterday for somebody. i keep forgetting that our prices here seem like i lot but then you have to figure in the exchange rate

[premiumrican]

I just got a thank you and enjoy your cruise