TPM wrote:Boo, I agree with paying extra for service and have no problem with that. Most of their "big ticket" stuff like bows and guns are comparably priced with other retailers but it's the smaller stuff that has me scratching my head sometimes. I was in the market for a Buck Vangaurd knife at one time. This is a very popular selling knife and available at most places that sell hunting knives. The price at Shooters Choice $89.95, at Bass Pro $64.95. I can understand a $5 or $10 difference but $25 seems a bit steep.
Again, I have shopped at and will continue to shop at The BowShop/GunRoom but I'm just a little more careful about some items.
Agreed !!!!!!!!!!
being in the business, i am faced with this each and every day...most folks (beacause of obvious reasons) have become accustomed to "shopping for the best price"...sometimes you have to take this with a grain of salt and understand that a lot of times big business will (and i think someone already mentioned it) will "invite" you into their establishments as they know today's consumer is price conscious and there to "shop"...i know for a fact (and you might want to call it a lost leader), but the super stores will sometimes sell a selection of bow cases on an end aisle...they will advertise this and get you there...you know what happens next...i remember a specific situaion where one of the super stores was receiving these cases and paying the same price as i - this is a fact !...it didn't matter to them what they paid...as i recall my cost was 46.00 and i was retailing the cases for 62.00 - fair enough right ?...the superstore was selling them for 42.95 - 3.05 cheaper than what they paid for them...crazy right ?...if you could regiment yourself to go in a purchase that case only, the superstore was of course the loser (not really - it is a drop in the bucket because the next nine individuals would quite nicely balance this out in the store's favour)...not likely to happen though, as there is the odd individual that could do that, but for most, it's hmmmm...let me see what else they've got...in canada, anyhow, i can tell you that most superstores will sell an excalibur or whatever, for the same price or "more" than the local shops will...not a bad deal if you think about it and you buy that less than cost price case on the end aisle, right?...things aren't always as they seem and this is about where the deals stop...suppose you want your new bow assembled...they may do it for you, but trust me, it's usually not put together correctly or they don't put it together at all for you...you can walk all around, pick up the pieces that that you think you need (don't ask for assistance because they usually don't know - or you'll get the "well the last customer puchased this scenerio - and we all know you're not like the last customer - right !), take them home in a bag and a big white box, and say to yourself, what have i done ???...now if you do manage to get it together (and i'm not talking about us excal. forum groupies who probably know as much as the manufactuer does - but the customer that is slightly oblivious to how things should work), or you take them back to the "box store" and have them assemble it for you, and then you have a problem........not too likely to happen with the excal lineup, but ***t does happen, now you have a totally different outlook on the purchase...ask them about repair, warranty and sure they package it back up for you, send it to the mfg. and hopefully you will hear from them over the course of the next couple of weeks, when they find the time to call you (or maybe they won't - sometimes you may call and quite often the individual who took your purchase back for repair, is not longer there and no one seems to know much about what transpired over the last (now about 3-4 weeks)....i could go on and on...
Here, i guess i'm just a little disappointed, as to the gist of this post...this all started out about a bow shop that has been in business for a very long time - long before the super stores, a business that has provided years of excellent service and supply...this business would not have been in business for all of these years if they would have been "ripping people off"...it doesn't work that way...i know this shop provides great service and whenever possible provides competitive pricing...not a bad deal when you think about it, and when your dry fired bow is sitting on the table with a lost molded end cap, a split limb and a bent db bar....think about it, for most is probably a no brainer...i don't expect to comment on this again, and please don't come back with the "that 20.00 bucks is just as good in my pocket scenerio"...sorry it doesn't cut it here...if you need to purchase the item at the bargain price be prepared for some of the consequences and the saga that "may" unfold...
see ya
Wayne...........
(ah i feel better now !)...