Cabelas Grandville MI

[Richard Flanders]

A couple of years back I found a Colt SAA in .44 special in the Denver Cabelas and decided to buy it. A guy can't have too many Colt SAA's.... Got the price and had to go out of the gunroom to a separate counter to pay for it. When they added the 7% sales tax on it was too much, but I choked and bought it. The .44 special is a very easy shooting caliber for the SAA. I shoulda just walked away. 7% on a gun of over $1000 just took it too high. Can't see myself buying any more guns from that shop.

[Phil Yearout]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

A couple of years back I found a Colt SAA in .44 special in the Denver Cabelas and decided to buy it. A guy can't have too many Colt SAA's.... Got the price and had to go out of the gunroom to a separate counter to pay for it. When they added the 7% sales tax on it was too much, but I choked and bought it. The .44 special is a very easy shooting caliber for the SAA. I shoulda just walked away. 7% on a gun of over $1000 just took it too high. Can't see myself buying any more guns from that shop.

Yeah; the word is that Cabela's wouldn't open here unless they got a west bound exit off the K-96 bypass. Then the city added 1.2% to the regular sales tax to pay for it. 8.7% in the "Community Improvement District" while everywhere else in town it is 7.5 %.

[Researcher]

We have a higher sales tax here in Washington, but no state income tax!! Yet!! Up at our place in Kodiak, AK, the sales tax is around 7% but there is senior citizen relief.

[mobirdhunter]

"All good things must come to an end." (Chaucer)

[6pt-Sika]

My first Cabellas was the store in Dundee MI and I was able to purchase a Thermacell , don’t remmember what they had in the gun library . My second Cabellas was the one in Hamburg not to long after they opened , I remmember the gun library that day quite well . They had close to two dozen used K-80’s mostly in trap form but there may have been a couple skeet guns and a couple considered sporting . They also had a cabinet full of doubles mostly Parker's or Fox guns but I think there were a couple hardware store (Smith) guns as well

[Joe Graziano]

I hear you. I tried to sell a gun precisely once at Cabelas. I brought the pistol back unloaded and cased. The guy at the gun counter looked at me like I was crazy. This is in Virginia, not an anti gun state like New York. I had to go back to the front, log the gun in at the service counter, have a lock installed and have someone walk it back to the gun room for me. Once there, the guy gave a crappy price. I reluctantly agree. Then, they refused to do it because of some craziness about the validity of my VA driver license, which was perfectly valid. I left, went to a gun shop, sold the gun legally in 10 mins and walked out with a handful of cash, significantly more than Cabelas had offered. I’ve never gone back.

[Big D]

I don't think Cabela's understood that they couldn't staff the library with "regular" workers. To run that sort of business -assessing used guns, pricing incoming guns, etc requires knowledgeable gun guys who probably can demand a higher wage rate

[Mills]

Big box stores just don't do sporting goods well. The small shops are the place for new guns. A few specialized dealers and other collectors are where you find old guns. For ammo and gear, Brownells and Midway USA or one of the other online places.

[Jim McKee]

Several years before Bass Pro took over Cabala's I was in the Wheeling, WVA store and saw several high grade AH Fox shotguns on display. I believe one was a XE and the other a DE and a CE.
The gun library there was always much nicer than the Columbus, Ohio store. Now I am not very impressed. The Columbus store I rarely visit.
Once they took over not much in quality Parker's, Fox, etc.
Really going down hill.
Very sad

[Researcher]

When the Cabelas opened near me, they cleaned out the local pawn shops and things like Winchester Model 50s that had been languishing in the local pawn shops in the $200 price range were in the Gun Library at $450.