Comments on: Are those property-taxed slopes you’re skiing on? http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/21/are-those-property-taxed-slopes-youre-skiing-on/ Political news in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York state. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Randy Agness http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/21/are-those-property-taxed-slopes-youre-skiing-on/comment-page-1/#comment-35899 Randy Agness Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:32:15 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/07/21/are-those-property-taxed-slopes-youre-skiing-on/#comment-35899 Over the past five years, NYS DEC Bellayre Mountain Ski Resort has been at the NYS Fair. They have a very nice booth in the NYS DEC section. Initially, they had given out four free tickets to attract skiers to the Catskills area. Three years ago, number of free tickets was reduced to two. Over the last two years, it was reduced to a buy one - get one free. With gas prices so high, the buy one - get one free was not enough of an enticement to have us go. We went skiing in the Upstate region. I have never seen any New York State Ski Resort make any attempt to host a booth or provide discounted tickets to attract skiers at the New York State Fair (annually one million attendance). Bellayre created a mailing list from the people who received the discounted tickets. I get regular email messages from Bellayre about events. I have been skiing at Bristol Mt, Holiday Valley, Swain and many others, but they have not marketed their product eventhough they have had much more access to contact information. Bellayre provides a reasonable product at a reasonable price. We will ski on the discounted tickets and stay in the area to continue skiing and provide economic impact for the area business. My son and I receive several ski magazines, but does the ski associations buy subscriber lists (specifically NY, PA, NJ & CT residents). If so, then none have made any attempt to attract our attension. Don't critcize Bellayre, look internally for your failure. Our family skis at minumum approximately 12 to 16 day per year. Maybe family friendly prices will help. Regards, Randy Agness Over the past five years, NYS DEC Bellayre Mountain Ski Resort has been at the NYS Fair. They have a very nice booth in the NYS DEC section. Initially, they had given out four free tickets to attract skiers to the Catskills area. Three years ago, number of free tickets was reduced to two. Over the last two years, it was reduced to a buy one – get one free.

With gas prices so high, the buy one – get one free was not enough of an enticement to have us go. We went skiing in the Upstate region.

I have never seen any New York State Ski Resort make any attempt to host a booth or provide discounted tickets to attract skiers at the New York State Fair (annually one million attendance). Bellayre created a mailing list from the people who received the discounted tickets. I get regular email messages from Bellayre about events.

I have been skiing at Bristol Mt, Holiday Valley, Swain and many others, but they have not marketed their product eventhough they have had much more access to contact information.

Bellayre provides a reasonable product at a reasonable price. We will ski on the discounted tickets and stay in the area to continue skiing and provide economic impact for the area business. My son and I receive several ski magazines, but does the ski associations buy subscriber lists (specifically NY, PA, NJ & CT residents). If so, then none have made any attempt to attract our attension.
Don’t critcize Bellayre, look internally for your failure. Our family skis at minumum approximately 12 to 16 day per year. Maybe family friendly prices will help.

Regards,

Randy Agness

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