I kind of think Cabela's was pretty decent on many items. I bought a few guns at very reasonable cost. As fr as ammo..I bought little unless it was closeout. Last was 9mm HP ammo at 6.44 a box of 50. Norma 223 at 3.44. I quite often bought primers under my wholesale cost Powder was never a real deal..but sometimes they had just what I wanted at reasonable prices too. Bass Pro almost never had a decent selection of reloading supplies and never any used guns or decent prices on new. Looks like now with BP doing the buy out, Cabela's is going to disappear. At least as it's former self, anyway! I have a Cabela's credit card but with the banking changes and their corporate changes I'll probably quit using it.
Cabelas and Bass Pro Shops, and their new policies...
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GUNMIKE
US Veteran
Just received a notice from Bank of America stating that they were stopping business with the Bass Pro Shop Outdoor Reward Card. They say that they would ship a new card, without the Bass Pro Shop affiliation. I guess that they have issues with them too.
Bank of America has problems with anything gun related.
I'd tell B of A to stuff it, but that's just me.
t is a matter of economics,Buy a used gun from a customer for 2/3ds of blue book ,sell for for 1/3 rd profit New guns sales less of a profit. Make clothing and sell for 80% profit .What would do if you ran a business?
the Cabella family took the money and rar with it after dad died. like most of the younger crowd ,family builds things because they have a passion for it ,and the kids don't want to put in the effort that dad did take the money and Go
The above straight from a manager at Cabelas .
I n all fairness my most recent purchase from them was a m-27-2 with a nickle finish 3-T's And 4" barrel,factory target grips for $500.00. I will keep shopping until they close.After all i am 10 min. away.
the Cabella family took the money and rar with it after dad died. like most of the younger crowd ,family builds things because they have a passion for it ,and the kids don't want to put in the effort that dad did take the money and Go
The above straight from a manager at Cabelas .
I n all fairness my most recent purchase from them was a m-27-2 with a nickle finish 3-T's And 4" barrel,factory target grips for $500.00. I will keep shopping until they close.After all i am 10 min. away.
The new Cabelas/Bass Pro credit cards will be from Capitol One.
Bank of America wants no gun business.
I no longer do ANY business with Bank of America. They have taken a stand...so did I.
This corporate-activist stuff is really dumb.
Now that they are fully homogenized, I think BPS will sadly neglect shooting customers more every year.
Which also makes no business sense because they paid heavily to acquire Cabela's customers.
Millennial's will probably not shoot/hunt like we do, but why not keep as many customers as long as possible?
This corporate-activist stuff is really dumb.
Now that they are fully homogenized, I think BPS will sadly neglect shooting customers more every year.
Which also makes no business sense because they paid heavily to acquire Cabela's customers.
Millennial's will probably not shoot/hunt like we do, but why not keep as many customers as long as possible?
Whitwabit
US Veteran
The Bass Pro Shop here has always had locks on their guns since they opened a few years ago ..
so nothing has changed here with their policy ..
Several smaller gun stores in the area also have all of their inventory with locks too so
its not just the big box stores here in my area ..
so nothing has changed here with their policy ..
Several smaller gun stores in the area also have all of their inventory with locks too so
its not just the big box stores here in my area ..
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LVSteve
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OK, but do the small stores remove the lock for inspection? That's the beef with Cabelas and used guns right now. The trigger lock cannot be removed in the store and there are no returns on used guns.
I second this... I visit somewhere between two and six different gun shops over the course of any given week, and only Cableas/Bass Pro Shops have the policy of no lock removal for inspection purposes. Other shops that keep locks on will take them off for inspection purposes when asked to do so. Heck, Cabelas, up until recently, would remove trigger locks on any of their racked rifles upon request before the sudden policy change.
My regular rotation of shops visited weekly includes one that just last week had a suicide in their indoor range. One would expect major changes in policy after an event like that, however by Saturday when I stopped in, everything was back to business as usual, albeit the staff was still understandably a bit shaken up.
I chalk this up to the shop knowing their core customers, and knowing that 99.9% of us aren't skulking about for nefarious reasons. I feel the opposite about the Cabelas/Bass Pro policy, in that it feels that there is a lack of trust in the customer. It also says to me that the company does not understand their core demographic, and does not have interest in fixing this problem, as was expressed by several Cabelas staff when I asked who I should reach out to express my dissatisfaction for the recent policy change. I was told that my opinions, no matter how valid will be falling on deaf ears that have no intent on reversing the policy.
This is why I would really like the company to end its firearms sales altogether. They don't understand the customers or the business, and thus shouldn't be in it.
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revolvergeek
Member
The Bass Pro buyout of Cabela's has really had a terrible effect on our local Cabela's particulary with the used guns; selection is down and prices are up. I have gotten some fabulous deals there in the past (a real ASP 39-2 with holster and spare mag, a 4 digit Detonics Combat Master with all original papers were my best scores) but just boring stuff and manufactured commemorative / collectibles mostly these days. Them ending their layaway policy has saved me a lot of money though..
