New Cabelas

[Huckleberry Finn]

Not as dickish as when Huck asked the Huntmore people how much the chair was and the guy said proudly $200 dollars.. " I Laughed out loud and said "For 200 dollars it better play with my balls"

Hahahahaha.

 

[dante322]

for $200 i can get you a sweet chair and a half dozen hookers to play with your balls..


..just sayin.

 

[bowieoutdoors]

Paying sales tax won't be a good enough reason not to shop there, or anywhere, soon enough. The government is already working to tax all internet sales.

 

[Jackalope]

Paying sales tax won't be a good enough reason not to shop there, or anywhere, soon enough. The government is already working to tax all internet sales.

They're trying. It'll never happen. They'll get large retailers like amazon etc but they'll never get the guy who moves his web server out of the US. The sale happened in another country. look at pirate bay. The government shut it down and it moved. Back up and running hours later. Ain't the Internet grand. I would say an added cost of 7% is more than enough reason not to shop with an online retailer. Especially when that retailer is overpriced to begin with. Bella's will have to get with it or die. Look at best buy. Used to be the same way. Amazon kicked their ass almost to bankruptcy and now you can rarely find a product in their store more than a dollar over amazon. .

 

[Diane]

The problem with taxing internet sales right now, is that a few states have adopted that. So, Amazon (and others) immediately dropped any and all affiliates that did business in those states.

Luckily, this is not something that Ohio has done and I hope they don't.

 

[Thunderflight]

Personally I believe cabelas and bass pro at way overpriced both in store and online. The reason I have tolerated it is because I know they have huge stores with lots of cool stuff and I understand that costs money. To me it was worth paying the extra money because I knew there was a reason for it.

What I see them doing is this. They're losing their ass to other online retailers that sell the same product at a cheaper price, they can do this because of the lack of overhead. Cabelas opened a crap store in an attempt to cash in on a virgin market without the overhead, yet they charge the same outrageous prices. Virgin market, low overhead store, equals more profit. To me that philosophy isn't worth spending my money at. Additionally I now have to pay 7% more in sales tax online because they opened a store in Ohio. Combine that with the lack of the cabelas experience and I have no reason to shop at cabelas online or in person. They opened a McDonald's with Resturant style prices. The only reason i bought from them online was to avoid sales tax. Cant do that anymore. As for shopping at cabelas anymore. No thanks. The only reason I can see shopping there will be if they have a product cheaper than someone else and I do ship to store. But let's face it. Cabelas having something cheaper than someone else online or local is rare.

I'm not the Cabelas fan I used to be either. Putting aside their lack of regular military discounts like Bass Pro has, I have found that I can most things cheaper from other online stores or eBay. The Cableas in Hamburg PA is nice though and only an hour from my house.