Pricing, have your cake and eat it?

[wildfowler.250]

Folks how would you play this going forward on a first safari?

My outfitter has given me a price for a kudu and some plains game a year/year and a half ago. The kudu has gone up by maybe $500 dollars this year,(I’m guessing as don’t have the prices to hand). Some animals like wildebeest have gone down this year by $100 since I’ve booked/was quoted.

I’m expecting the outfitter to honour the price given for kudu as when booked. Would you expect to still pay the original higher $100 price for a wildebeest or since that has gone down, would you expect the new lower rate/best of both worlds?

Not sure I can cherry pick the best of both prices. Only curious as there’s a list on a form I have to complete prior to going of animals I wish to hunt with a price to fill in beside it. So I’m just getting the general consensus on which prices I should write on list to save embarrassment.

 

[LivingTheDream]

This is just me, but prices as agreed to when booked.

 

[318AE]

You both made an agreement/commitment when you booked.

 

[Tbitty]

I would go by whatever is on your contract / signed quote. If you only booked a hunt for X days of PG hunting, expect to pay the then current trophy fee prices at the time you pull the trigger. ... if you had a package for hunt with animals X, Y, & Z, expect to pay for that package price as agreed, plus any new adds at the then-current price list.

 

[318AE]

I would go by whatever is on your contract / signed quote. If you only booked a hunt for X days of PG hunting, expect to pay the then current trophy fee prices at the time you pull the trigger. ... if you had a package for hunt with animals X, Y, & Z, expect to pay for that package price as agreed, plus any new adds at the then-current price list.

I’ve never booked a hunt and discovered what they trophy fees were later when the hunt actually happened.

 

[375Fox]

I expect an outfitter to honor the daily rates I book at. Trophy fees I expect to be the current year’s trophy fees. Daily rates are fully in their control. Trophy fees are only partly in their control subject to the landowner or government depending on the country.

Edit: I just reread your post. What does that mean you have to write prices? Usually an outfitter has a standard trophy fee list available.

 

[Red Leg]

I have always paid the contracted daily rate and trophy fee. If the outfitter wishes to raise trophy fees that is fine, but that should have no effect on our contract. Often I have added an animal not priced in the contract and that might be from a current trophy list or a handshake at the moment.

 

[3chunter]

They should honor the agreed quote as long as you didn’t push any dates or anything.
Many though do have language that says they reserve right to change prices,etc.

 

[318AE]

I expect an outfitter to honor the daily rates I book at. Trophy fees I expect to be the current year’s trophy fees. Daily rates are fully in their control. Trophy fees are only partly in their control subject to the landowner or government depending on the country.

Edit: I just reread your post. What does that mean you have to write prices? Usually an outfitter has a standard trophy fee list available.

You and I see eye to eye on many, many things. In my experience, if an outfitter can’t commit to trophy fees one or two years out, then they should not book hunts that far out. I’ve always had both daily rates and trophy fees locked when booking.