Thread: Wholesale Sports - Holy Cow!

The Wholesale Sports I was in (Lake Oswego) struck me as a few steps below the old GI Joes. I got the distinct impression they'd rather sell me water skiing gear than anything firearms related.

No thanks. FM, GB, BiM get my business.

Originally Posted by markw76

The Wholesale Sports I was in (Lake Oswego) struck me as a few steps below the old GI Joes. I got the distinct impression they'd rather sell me water skiing gear than anything firearms related.

No thanks. FM, GB, BiM get my business.

You sound like you were in Dick's

Originally Posted by Intoodeep

You sound like you were in Dick's

Oh, damn! You're right! They're so difficult to tell apart...

I asked the clerk in Salems W.S. why they don't communicate their existence or sales via ads in the paper, etc...he didn't know.
W/ all the competition now (esp Salem) for sporting goods, its frustrating seeing a place like this just fall apart. I guess the Canadian mgmt are all out hunting moose or something.

Originally Posted by jdub75

I asked the clerk in Salems W.S. why they don't communicate their existence or sales via ads in the paper, etc...he didn't know.
W/ all the competition now (esp Salem) for sporting goods, its frustrating seeing a place like this just fall apart. I guess the Canadian mgmt are all out hunting moose or something.

People really screw up by not advertising....they spend all their funds to build and stock stores and they do not get the word out .
Welcome to the old economy of build it and they will find you. That worked when it was the local store in your neighborhood, with the Internet who needs the arrogance.

Originally Posted by A2theK

That store can eat a fat one. My wife bought me a gift card and a week later they wouldn't honor it once they were bought out.

why should they? The company was bought out, the new owners are not in any way legally obligated to honor gift cards purchased from the old company.

Yes, you got burned, but not by the new owners, the old owners took the money and ran.

Our Kennewick, WA. store isn't too good.
They do stock a better selection of cleaning supplies than anyone else local.
There are 2 guy's that know what they are doing.
But a third one I ran into is dumber than a stump and, about as ambitious!

My BIGGEST bubblegum is, "When I have to wait for a line of people buying Fishing and Hunting License's to pay for my purchases.
Why can't a clerk be assigned just for that purpose?
I waited to buy the wrong case, waited to return it, then left after standing 'in-line (again) to pay for the correct case.
I finally said 'Screw this', dropped the case on the empty check-out counter and went to BIG 5 and got what I wanted.
I won't darken their door unless I have to, ever again!

Originally Posted by jdub75

I asked the clerk in Salems W.S. why they don't communicate their existence or sales via ads in the paper, etc...he didn't know.
W/ all the competition now (esp Salem) for sporting goods, its frustrating seeing a place like this just fall apart. I guess the Canadian mgmt are all out hunting moose or something.

Rest assured I bubblegum about this, and in Wednesdays paper, there is the first ever W.S. ad!! I nearly fell off the couch, and now my belly is full having to eat crow!

I have visited the Salem store. No primers, ever, except .50 BMG. Didn't even have .30 cal bore brushes. Looks to me as if they bought out the existing inventory and are just trying to flog that stuff with as little restocking investment as possible.

Somehow I just found this store today in Clackamas. I never even knew it existed. It's the most wonderful thing that's happened to me in a long itme.

The Bend WS has powder, primers, bullets and plenty on hand. It was slim pickin's a year ago but that was due to credit issues with the major suppliers but now plenty of stock and lots of choices.

I have been to the one in Vancouver, WA and found their gun prices and ammo prices WAY too high! I can buy a 200 round bulk pack of UMC .223 ammo at Bi-Mart for $89.98 and Wholesale Sports wants $119.00 for the same ammo.

$16 for a 50rnd box of 9mm S&B.... I only go for fishing lures and gear. firearms gear no thanks.

I stopped into the one in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho last weekend and they were fully stocked, even .22 ammo. Of course the prices are above what the old Sportsman's Warehouse stores were but that's to be expected with inflation and all. Their pricing was on par with all the other sporting goods stores in the area and weren't overpriced.

Prices are now high under the new ownership group. You are better off traveling up to Longview to Bob's, or going to Fisherman's or Keith's.

It's ok I guess, I mean it is what it is. But the older guy, (forgot his name) in guns who really likes shotguns, should go work at The Gun Room! They could take turns on their soapboxes.

Bought a Ruger LCR .357 here. I paid about $20 high, but no one else had the gun. Nice selection and I've noticed it keeps expanding! Decent folks behind the counter too!

Wholesale Sports is a rip off!!! almost as over priced as cabelas

All these box stores carry the same thing. Yawn...

If you don't shoot a 10/22, 870, 700, AR15, or 9mm pistol you may as well shop online.

What is an even bigger ripoff is the shipping rates the on line companies charge! Buy local & keep your neighbor employed so you don't have to pay for him to be unemployed.

Why did we feel the need to post on a 2+ year old thread?