How long have they offered price match?

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I don’t think that is normal procedure for them. They would not even consider it when I asked about millennium tripod stand. I think you may have just talked to the “ right” person, at the right time. They won’t on gun powder right now either.

 

I believe it may have been the other way around and you talked to the wrong person. "see policy below" I just did this and they pushed back initially on the item because it technically was sold by a third party on amazon but after explaining I really prefer to buy from them and order a silly amount of items but can't justify an extra 50 dollars just for charity they said they would approve it.

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/pricematch

WHAT QUALIFIES FOR OUR PRICE MATCH?
Product meets qualifying criteria
The product must be currently available at our store or on our website. And the product must be the same brand, same model, same color, same size, and same quantity as the comparison product. See additional details and restrictions below.

PRODUCT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT A LOWER PRICE FROM QUALIFYING STORE OR WEBSITE
The product must be currently available at a lower price at another retailer’s local store (within 100 miles of your local Bass Pro Shops or Cabela's store) or on a qualifying website. See description of “qualifying websites” below.

 

I ain’t going to argue with them over it, if they don’t want to price match I will buy else where. No skin off my back, it’s just I have gift cards and wanted to use them. But I will find something else or I will give the cards away to others as gifts and they can use them. If they don’t want my business I am not going to go out of my way and give it to them, I am perfectly happy not buying from them.

 

I somewhat agree but I do go out of my way they are one of the last big forces in retail that promotes the outdoors and recreation. I also support local guys when it makes sense to me it was worth the extra 15 minutes today to give my 300 dollars today to Cabelas vs Amazon. I agree sometimes you do encounter disgruntled or unskilled / trained big box employees but the company as a whole is a good company I know senior management all the way up to johnny to a lesser degree and they are really good people.

 

still beats buying from Dick's !!

 

Glad to hear it if I can get it set up for me, I should probably support the local bowshop too though.

 

I need to start looking on the classifieds here to find me a good bow to start, shooting lefty though

 

Bows & arrows & sometimes broad heads and targets come from my local archery shop. Usually broad heads & targets & misc. items come from ebay or Amazon if I know what I want. Otherwise if I want to browse around looking at everything from meat slicers to crappie jigs, I hit up a Bass Pro/Cabelas. While I slow poke around my wife shops for clothes (a pretty decent ladies selection) & my kid looks at fish in the aquarium. I don't mind buying from them even if I do pay full retail.

 

I purchase from Bass Pro when I can even when the price is a bit more but close .

Don't get me wrong when the price is a big difference I'll order on line if shipping is included in the lesser price .

I do prefer looking at and testing or putting the product in my hands prior to a purchase ..to me this is worth an extra 7-12% in co$t .......call me old school,

but Last year I purchased 2ea Real BLOCK targets for $129 on line .....can't remember the vendor but at bass pro they were about $90 each on Sale .... that's the difference I'm talking about .

I did purchase 3ea shooter bucks fro BP for only $55 each [emoji106]

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When I worked at Cabela’s they wouldn’t do amazon

 

I believe this is a relatively new addition

Qualifying Websites: If your comparison is to a product offered for sale online, that must be on a website operated either:
(A) by one of the following online retailers: Academy, Amazon, Backcountry, Brownells, Cheaper Than Dirt, Dick's Sporting Goods, Field & Stream, Gander RV & Outdoors, L.L. Bean, Mack's Prairie Wings, Midway USA, Optics Planet, REI, Scheels, Sportsman's Warehouse, Tackle Warehouse or Walmart; or
(B) by the manufacturer of the product (which is selling direct-to-consumers online). Check back periodically for updates to this list of qualifying websites.

 

That's good to hear.

 

Some have not heard how many times Both Cabela's and Bass Pro has dropped many things like their Lifetime warranty of their brand name products like Boots, clothing, game cameras etc! I was at a Cabelas a few years ago when a guy came in with a pair of Cabela's hunting boots that were about wore out and asked for a new pair and they said they no longer offer that, the same with Cabela's Game Cameras that was to have the "lifetime" warranty and someone had an issue with his and they said he could get a discount but not a "new" one... I would not purchase anything from either as most of their brand name products are made in China and low quality and They Change Items way to Often, when you find a decent item like Gloves you go back or try and order them online and it has been discontinued and you cannot find anything as good or better unless you are paying 3 times the price! Appears some have forgot about all this. I had a lot of bass pro points and every time I would visit their local store they never had the ammo I use. after 5 trips in 2 Years I found it at Jays on my way to my hunting Property and Jay's always had that Ammo. So I gave up and when They opted to change their Points system I lost my points. But spend your $ with either I can find most everything I am looking for other brands for less and online for much less $. So I save $ and get the same item! Not sure either if they still have the 90 day return and refund policy they once had. A friend would try out new products like game cameras and if he did not like it he would return it for a full refund within the 90 days usually 40 days.
Why they lost a lot of Customers and now that it is just Bass Pro with the Cabela's name as some like myself had bad experiences with Bass Pro some won't give them any of their hard earned Money!
Sad but true...
LFM

 

They do alot of good for promoting conservation and the outdoors millions to conservation organizations every year, advocacy for gun rights, youth education etc etc. Something to think about. just because they may have changed in an ever changing lower margin retail world to survive. I will still support them over the amazons.

 

They price matched a Leupold scope off Amazon for me today in about 10 minutes. All that they said is that it needs to be sold and shipped from Amazon and not some no name outdoor company that no one has ever heard of.

 

Yes, and I would rather give them the business

 

I'm not a big fan of Cabela's. We have one nearby and in general, their prices are not competitive and the help not particularly helpful.

 

I would rather take my business to a small shop.

 

^^^^ this....and they all do NOT price match.....NOT EVEN CLOSE on my Swaro's....$400+ difference

 

If i have to research a lower price, ive done the work for the company... so I wont buy it from them. It also shows their intent to try and take me to the cleaners if I wasnt astute enough to figure it out on my own.

Historically, BPS has always been so much more expensive, that I dont even think about them. Id rather but from a smaller mom and pop shop.

 

Screw Johnny Morris, if you knew the crap he is doing rite now to his employees most would agree. I use to buy a lot of stuff from cabelas, not since he took it over. He has a power issue. Support your local shops!!!

 

I'm sorry but I disagree I know the Morris family and several years back worked in management at the corporate HQ and yes they have cut wages and some staff but in today's retail world its an unfortunate reality. I have personally watched John become tearful when having to make the decision to lay large numbers of folks off. To be candid John is aware of those decisions but he is not the one making them as he is such a generous guy the business would likely not survive if those decisions were left up to John and he is smart enough to understand that and let others make those decisions. John does not even have a computer in his office he creates the vision but has smart people that figure out how to actually pull those wild ideas off John isn't sitting in his office running the numbers or making hiring and firing decisions outside of a very close inner circle.

John wants nothing more than to see the tradition of hunting fishing and the outdoors live on long after him. He is not one of the bad guys I promise.

I if anyone should be somewhat salty I was one of the people let go now this was years ago prior to the Cabelas buyout. It was more a mutual separations I worked in a part of HR that just wasn't aligned with where the business needed to be financially prior to buying cabelas. I had slightly different personal and business aspirations at the time and had other opportunities that I was able to transition to relatively quickly. Despite our somewhat checkered past I can call a spade a spade and tell you with confidence BP is a good company with a good family that owns them who care about what we all care about.

 

I know they recently changes their price match policy to price match brick and mortar stores. I've used it to buy my CZ P10C that Buds had for a much lower price. It doesn't matter if it's a store in a different state either. It just needs to be the same item and must be in stock.

 

They have also changed the return policy according to my brother in law. Overpay a little bit at a small bow shop. Because in the long run they ended up taking care of me. You can't get the same service at a cabelas or a Bass Pro Shops.

 

I've spent a lot of money at Cabelas over the years but when I get the frequent fliers in the mail they go into the garbage immediately. I never did like Bass Pro.

 

They would have to price match for me to be interested. I bought a bow from cables around 10 years ago, I was a newbie and didn't know any better. It was supposedly tuned and ready to go. Wrong. I can go in there and find a gun that I like, and go to my local shop and usually beat the price by at least $100, most likely $200 depending on what it is. Scopes and ammo seem to be the same way. I do my business local or order off of the internet if my local business can't get anywhere in the ball park.

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Bass Pro is fine. Cabela's is fine. Price match used to be only brick and mortar but good to see they have added online.

It's been going on for at least 10 years and most employees are happy to do it if you ask and show them the better price for the exact same item.

 

good call on this i didnt know

 

But hey worthless posting to get to 20 is the way, eh?

 

Thank goodness for scheels!! Their price match and return policy blows the other guys out!. I won't step foot in another bp/cab.

 

we don’t have many scheels near where I live but they are good stores

 

Wonder how long they will be in business? I bought a ton of stuff from them in the 90's when I started traveling to hunt and started guiding. They were a top notch company , today I will not buy anything from them or even go to there stores . The problems they are having today they brought on themselves .

 

Outside of the current debacle they are still doing fine somewhat over extending with the Cabelas buy out but the stores are still profitable. For those who have never been or not since the opening of Wonders of Wildlife I highly encourage a trip to the HQ in springfield. Even if you buy nothing the experience is pretty cool they did a good job. Spend a day touring Wonders of wildlife and aquarium then head to the NRA museum and Archery Hall of fame.

 

I heard the buyout didn't cover existing warranties...lost me right there. Rarely does the local BP have what I'm looking for. Like most brick and mortar retail, new inventory won't show until products people didn't want is picked through and all but a remote possibility of it being sold remains.

Say what you want about amazon, they do things right. For that I reward them with my business. Their warranty is even better than Cabela's was when they first hit the Country and I don't even have to make a days drive to get there.

 

You won't see things like this from Amazon

https://community.basspro.com/_imgs/BasspPro2018ImpactReportLoRes.pdf


Just a few highlights

Bass Pro Shops completed a $1 million gift to the National Wild Turkey
Federation (NWTF) in support of the organization’s Save the Habitat.
Save the Hunt. initiative to conserve and enhance four million acres of
habitat

Bass Pro Shops and
Cabela’s helped Ducks Unlimited conserve more than 169,000 grassland
acres in the last year alone

8,500 Acres
for Expanded
Elk Habitat
and Access
Support from Bass Pro
Shops and Cabela’s
expands habitat range
for elk and other species
while improving access
to public lands

8,000 Kids and Families
Golf great Tiger Woods and fishing legend Bill Dance joined Johnny
to entertain nearly 8,000 kids and families at a free golf and fishing
clinic at Buffalo Ridge Springs golf course in Hollister, Missouri.
“Johnny’s incredible passion for connecting people of all ages and
backgrounds to the outdoors is truly inspiring.”
Tiger Woods

50,000
Rods and Reels
Bass Pro Shops and
Cabela’s Gone Fishing
campaign collected
and donated 50,000
rods and reels to
youth organizations
that help kids from all
backgrounds put down
their digital devices and
pick up a fishing pole.