12-08-2016, 10:35 AM
Come the new year, CCS's monthly fees will go from $5 to $8/month for occasional members, and from $30 to $40/month for regular plan members.
The hard part of all this is that CCS has to buy all its own cars, and everything has to come from its fees. GM can get cars at literally any price they want to put on the books, and they have an multi-billion-dollar industry which would likely be very happy to undercut a market like ours for the purpose of research. They, however, will only have one location in downtown kitchener, but if they were to sufficiently undercut the highest use rate cars of CCS, they could theoretically knock out that portion of CCS, and perhaps the rest of CCS throughout WR, as well as the other cities in which it operates. Regardless of where on the spectrum this hits CCS, it will be a non-zero consequence.
The hard part of all this is that CCS has to buy all its own cars, and everything has to come from its fees. GM can get cars at literally any price they want to put on the books, and they have an multi-billion-dollar industry which would likely be very happy to undercut a market like ours for the purpose of research. They, however, will only have one location in downtown kitchener, but if they were to sufficiently undercut the highest use rate cars of CCS, they could theoretically knock out that portion of CCS, and perhaps the rest of CCS throughout WR, as well as the other cities in which it operates. Regardless of where on the spectrum this hits CCS, it will be a non-zero consequence.