Holding guns for regular

[George Lander]

I'm with you on that one Travis. While I appreciate the fact that Sellers have regular customers, they should not advertise a gun that they have on hold just to have a "back up" Buyer in case their regular customer doesn't pan out. That smacks of fraud in my book.

Just My Humble Opinion.......George

[Jim Kucaba]

The Cabelas store in Lacey Washington did the exact same thing to me a few months back ... They SCREWED me out of a 14ga lifter gun that I called in and BOUGHT in the morning ... Only to be called back and told I couldn't have the gun in the afternoon ! ... I took my complaint to the manager of the gun department at the Lacey Washington store, to no avail, then up the ladder to the Store Manager in Lacey to no avail, and finally to the HMFIC over ALL of Cabelas gun departments at their Corporate Headquarters in Nebraska, and got no satisfaction from him either ... This is why I think a potential buyer should be required to put some "Earnest Money" up before he can get a gun put on hold ... Needless to say, I've been making up NEW swear words to call Cabelas ever since ... And I just bought a gun safe from Dick's Sporting Goods because it will be a 20 below zero day in AriZOOna before I spend a cent in a Cabelas store again.


Jim Kucaba ... AriZOOna Cactus Patch ... Email: JimKucaba@aol.com

[Bill Murphy]

OK, I will give an example of how I handled this situation when an out of town dealer advertised a Parker for sale in the Gun List. I knew that his phone would be ringing off the hook within hours of the time I called him. Knowing that a preferred customer would probably take the gun away from me, I had the dealer charge my credit card for the full price of the gun and read the transaction number to me. In retrospect, I should have had him fax the credit card receipt and store receipt to me. However, everything went great and I purchased a great fluid steel ten gauge at a fair price. Without the full documented payment, I doubt that I would have ended up with the gun. The dealer admitted that he had never had so many calls on a gun the day the ad broke.

[QUOTE=James T. Kucaba;5735]The Cabelas store in Lacey Washington did the exact same thing to me a few months back ... They SCREWED me out of a 14ga lifter gun that I called in and BOUGHT in the morning ... Only to be called back and told I couldn't have the gun in the afternoon ! ... I took my complaint to the manager of the gun department at the Lacey Washington store, to no avail, then up the ladder to the Store Manager in Lacey to no avail, and finally to the HMFIC over ALL of Cabelas gun departments at their Corporate Headquarters in Nebraska, and got no satisfaction from him either ... This is why I think a potential buyer should be required to put some "Earnest Money" up before he can get a gun put on hold ... Needless to say, I've been making up NEW swear words to call Cabelas ever since ... And I just bought a gun safe from Dick's Sporting Goods because it will be a 20 below zero day in AriZOOna before I spend a cent in a Cabelas store again.


Jim- I'm with you and the other brothers of the Meridian CT. clan here, no responsible dealer should advertise any gun for sale, whether it is a minty CHE 20 or a Stevens 311, unless it is free and clear for sale or trade/sale with inspection from a potential buyer. I hold Cabela's Gun Library in "Low Esteem" as I surmise do you, they are in the gun game for the $ and not to build a solid customer/client base, as perhaps Jack Puglisi, the late Thad Scott, and Bill Jaqua (amongst many other good dealers IMO) have done over the years. Being a reputable gun dealer takes years to build a client base.

Having a bit of military background, I interpret your code HMFIC of the Cabela's "sham" as meaning the Head Mister Foster In Charge of course!!

[Bill Murphy]

That's the guy, all right. He gets around.