park homes policy forum
<10% commission
What is the sales commission?
Who pays the park owner?
Its a contentious issue, is it likely to change?
Do you pay the commission if you leave your home to a relative?
key information on this page
1 written statement
2 basic contract terms
3 'in perpetuity'
4 utilities
5 park rules
THE SALES COMMISSION
The following doesn`t claim to represent the views of all, or even most, of our members. Anyone who presumes full support on any issue is self-delusional. There are always degrees. Those with personal agenda`s, those who support a group or organisation regardless of the subject and many within, who`ve never delved below the surface or the slogan or considered the implications of a cause. For these reasons, the following should be seen as the personal view of Tony Turner, who says as follows;
There`s no need to go into the precise histrionics of the sales commissions, because we are where we are - and today is now.
That said, there was time when the commission was often justified. Those were the years before the infiltration of the hardened crooks when ethical operators maintained their sites and helped with sales. It was a time when I`d first supported abolition or changes – but also when we had active protective services such as properly funded Local Authorities, Trading Standards teams and police who`d respond to notified crime including harassment, intimidations and fraud.
There were two things that killed all that, The failures of successive governments to criminalise the crooks, whilst introducing the 2013 Act, which criminalised the ethical operators who helped with sales ….And then came the Fit & Proper person criteria, about which there`s no need to comment.
So, nowadays, whilst there can be NO justification for the sales commission, the realities include the investments made by business`s relying upon a guaranteed future revenue streams . Remove or interfere with the commission and the smaller ethical operators may well be forced to sell out the to crooks, whilst the crooks will look to compensate for the shortfalls with new and unlawful schemes, such as those that the PHPF has been publicly fighting….
So, to summarise; To remove the commissions whilst enabling the crooks to flourish invites more serous problems, also where there are other options.
Meanwhile we await this government`s next move.``