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Or... thanks for posting.Wow. 3 posts in 13 years. Slow down!
Screw BPS. Overpriced on everything.
And they screwed GOAL and the women's group. Many of us are boycotting them.Wow. 3 posts in 13 years. Slow down!
Screw BPS. Overpriced on everything.
Eff BPBass Pro is looking for help in the Hunting Department which basically is the gun counter. FYI
sez the guy who burns up the keyboard with 80 posts a year. lolWow. 3 posts in 13 years. Slow down!
went to Gartman asking if he'd support NWTF when I was volunteering for that org.. Guy was a real douche to me.. I completely understand if your not interested in supporting a .org, but no need to treat me like an a**h***. Most of the guys in there are cool, but if that was the owner, eff him...
You can call it a little incident if you wish, but when a company cancels a GOAL/Women's event 2 days prior for political reasons, leaving GOAL and ~125 paid attendees holding the bag, and then promises to reimburse GOAL but doesn't do so for multiple months . . . that's a pretty big NEGATIVE wrt 2A in my book! They richly deserve being boycotted. The woman who organized that event is a very good friend of mine and kept me abreast of the broken promises by BassPro.I tell ya.. wife and I work at BPS.. for retail, not a bad place to work. I get it.. don't like the prices, don't shop there. But I can tell you that they do a shitload for 2A, hunting, & conservation orgs. If you hold one incident against them, it's pretty shortsighted if you ask me. They sure ain't Dicks Sporting Goods.
I went to Gartman asking if he'd support NWTF when I was volunteering for that org.. Guy was a real douche to me.. I completely understand if your not interested in supporting a .org, but no need to treat me like an a**h***. Most of the guys in there are cool, but if that was the owner, eff him...
You can call it a little incident if you wish, but when a company cancels a GOAL/Women's event 2 days prior for political reasons, leaving GOAL and ~125 paid attendees holding the bag, and then promises to reimburse GOAL but doesn't do so for multiple months . . . that's a pretty big NEGATIVE wrt 2A in my book! They richly deserve being boycotted. The woman who organized that event is a very good friend of mine and kept me abreast of the broken promises by BassPro.
At least Dick's had the balls to admit to what they did and why they did it. They joined the anti-2A groups and admitted to doing so.
As for Gartman, my understanding is that the Daughters of the original owner now own the place and hired a manager to run
You can call it a little incident if you wish, but when a company cancels a GOAL/Women's event 2 days prior for political reasons, leaving GOAL and ~125 paid attendees holding the bag, and then promises to reimburse GOAL but doesn't do so for multiple months . . . that's a pretty big NEGATIVE wrt 2A in my book! They richly deserve being boycotted. The woman who organized that event is a very good friend of mine and kept me abreast of the broken promises by BassPro.
At least Dick's had the balls to admit to what they did and why they did it. They joined the anti-2A groups and admitted to doing so.
As for Gartman, my understanding is that the Daughters of the original owner now own the place and hired a manager to run the store.
True, but they were promised that money immediately after the cancellation and it wasn't sent until months later. Meantime, GOAL had to reimburse people that wanted their money back. Very bad business practice and meets my criteria of a terrible company to give my money to!Rumor is Goal got a hefty sum of money... thousands of dollars. Above my pay grade though
Like i sait. One incident vs all the good.
True, but they were promised that money immediately after the cancellation and it wasn't sent until months later. Meantime, GOAL had to reimburse people that wanted their money back. Very bad business practice and meets my criteria of a terrible company to give my money to!
As you noted, GOAL was out money for a number of months, that they had to pay other vendors for the non-event.well.. isn't GOAL the one who took the ticket money from the attendees? Shouldn't have been difficult for an org to cut & mail 100 or so checks with money they had grossed and was presumably sitting in their account. And IIRC, BPS was donating the space free of charge.. so really it shouldn't have been anything off of GOAL's back to refund the money. BPS would have had no reason to give GOAL a dime, as GOAL didn't pay them anything. Again IIRC, BPS gave them a huge donation for the inconvenience and to cover any nonrefundable expenses from other vendors. If the complaint is that it came "months" later, I think people need to be a bit more understanding on how an 8 billion dollar company works, and cutting checks for large sums for things like this don't move quickly thru corporate entities.
well.. isn't GOAL the one who took the ticket money from the attendees? Shouldn't have been difficult for an org to cut & mail 100 or so checks with money they had grossed and was presumably sitting in their account. And IIRC, BPS was donating the space free of charge.. so really it shouldn't have been anything off of GOAL's back to refund the money. BPS would have had no reason to give GOAL a dime, as GOAL didn't pay them anything. Again IIRC, BPS gave them a huge donation for the inconvenience and to cover any nonrefundable expenses from other vendors. If the complaint is that it came "months" later, I think people need to be a bit more understanding on how an 8 billion dollar company works, and cutting checks for large sums for things like this don't move quickly thru corporate entities.
I only buy two things at BPS, their angler jacket and their Excel fishing line. Only because both these items have not changed over the years and work for me.
I'm not a fan of BPS otherwise.
IIRC, it got some media coverage in advance of the date and the antis apparently put up a stink, so BP folded to be PC. There was a long thread on that at the time, should be searchable.does any one know exactly why they cancelled?
So, look at the optics at Bass Pro and order from someone else.You will die from second hand smoke ooooozzzing out of the back room at Gartman. They have a death wish. Went once to Gartman, will not go back because of it.
BP has a very nice range of optics and fishing reels to look at. There's a cost of all that overhead that is reflected in the prices.
I know that Gartman gets items from other local dealers, like Norton Arms and ammo, and mark them up at least $400 per item.
So, the guns end up costing only a few dollars more than what they would cost anywhere else?Nest part is you get a huge discounts as an employee
So, the guns end up costing only a few dollars more than what they would cost anywhere else?