High Fees Plus Deposit Plus Electric! Options

[abbygolden]

Starting tomorrow, I'll be using a park for about two months that changes what I consider to be a pretty high monthly rate ($525) plus it charges a $150 deposit and electric. I've never even been to a park that charged for electric much less a deposit. I'm used to $400-500$ monthly at excellent parks and that includes wifi, etc. I've paid as much as $600 but that was a ripoff near Mesa Verde.

Why am I going to pay that much? Because the area I'm staying in doesn't have any other parks that come to the standard that I'm used to. This place certainly doesn't look like anything over the top as it is all concrete but it's in the location I want to be so I have little choice. My main choices are this place or returning home to central Texas and the 100 temps.

I don't go east of the Mississippi so I don't know what it is back east, but this is a first for me out west (I'm in Oregon). I exclude CA because ... I exclude CA.

[abbygolden]

Let's see if I can put this HEB loyalty card thing to rest.

They have a CREDIT CARD (Master Card in my case) which gives you an automatic 3 cents per gallon off at their service stations and also for every 100$ you spend you get $1 credit on a grocery card. For example (since my math is not very good), for every $10,000 you charge you get $100 credit card mailed to you. If you, like me, use your credit card for major purchases (and pay them immediately), it's a good deal. On a "good" year, I can get three $100 credit cards back from them.

This loyalty card isn't like a Safeway card where you can instantly see what you "saved" when you purchase an item, but rather it is a credit card that can be used anywhere for anything, but is best for use at HEB. Not unlike many other gas and grocery cards.

Tell Lauren, Lydia, and Irma that they need to investigate a little further what their store offers.

[dbnck]

Let's see if I can put this HEB loyalty card thing to rest.

They have a CREDIT CARD (Master Card in my case) which gives you an automatic 3 cents per gallon off at their service stations and also for every 100$ you spend you get $1 credit on a grocery card.

In our defense (and in defense of the employees in Corpus), you never said it was a credit card; all of our discussion was in reference to a loyalty card, which the vast majority of supermarkets across the country DO have and HEB does not. Everybody pays the same price at HEB--there are no "sale" prices available only to people who have loyalty cards. Well, except in Waco, for some reason. Never have gotten to the bottom of that.

[abbygolden]

In our defense (and in defense of the employees in Corpus), you never said it was a credit card; all of our discussion was in reference to a loyalty card, which the vast majority of supermarkets across the country DO have and HEB does not. Everybody pays the same price at HEB--there are no "sale" prices available only to people who have loyalty cards. Well, except in Waco, for some reason. Never have gotten to the bottom of that.

I didn't realize any defense was needed, and, read #3 above. I don't care any more about this topic but I can gaurantee you that you can take any credit card other than a HEB one into HEB to shop and not get a grocery card from them back. Call it what you want, but to me that is just another loyalty card, perhaps clothed in a credit card cloak. My intent when responding to this subject was to set the story straight that some employees didn't know the whole story and there may be some snowbirds who would be interested in saving some money by getting a grocery card back after spending "x" amount over the winter.

All of which brings up another (to me) interesting point. We were shopping in Fred Meyers in Florence, OR yesterday and remarked to the cashier how much we liked the store more than Safeway. Somehow the conversation got to national chain grocery stores in Texas, such as Kroger and Safeway. We have neither in my area as they both went under in the region years ago and I couldn't think of another national brand.

Is anyone aware of one or is it just the Austin area that doesn't seem to have them? Or could it be my memory?

For those of you who are suffering from the heat and drought, it hasn't been above 66 on the Oregon coast yet this summer. Life is good!