Posted: 12/28/2011 5:37:30 AM EDT
| I recently saw the Frabill predator ice shanty on sale for $500.00 on the Fleet Farm website. Unfournatly they are sold out at their locations, with the exception of a few in Minnesota. Shipping and handling on this item is $187.00, and a little more than the wife and I would like to spend. I did call the warehouse in Appleton to see if they do direct pickup or if they could ship it to a store near the warehouse so we could drive out and get it. They however do not offer this, so my question is does anyone know if this policy is changing or if I just talked to the wrong person? |
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Kinda dumb that they'd have one in the warehouse and won't ship it direct to the store nearest you for pick-up. Not a very good sales policy, IMO, and not how they used to do things.
A few years back, they had a sale on Cannon gun safes ($850 safe on sale at $599). I saw it in their sale paper, and drove 60 miles to the nearest store (Antigo) to look at one. They had one display model left, and were in the process of selling that one to someone else. I asked if they had any more available, and after the sporting goods manager did some checking, I was told they had 3 left, but in a Green Bay store. I wasn't about to drive to Green Bay from Antigo, and told him so, but he said they could have one shipped from Green Bay to the Antigo store... but it'd take about a week or two to do so, and I'd have to pay for it first. I said to go ahead and ship it, and I'd use my Visa card to pay now. Before leaving the store, I called two friends who were also looking for a good deal on a safe, and they both wanted one also... so I had all 3 shipped to Antigo from Green Bay, and a week or so later we drove down to Antigo with a pick-up truck and snowmobile trailer and picked them up when they called me to say they had been delivered. There was no "extra" charge for this, but I did have to pay for all 3 up front, before they'd ship them. |
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Kinda dumb that they'd have one in the warehouse and won't ship it direct to the store nearest you for pick-up. Not a very good sales policy, IMO, and not how they used to do things. A few years back, they had a sale on Cannon gun safes ($850 safe on sale at $599). I saw it in their sale paper, and drove 60 miles to the nearest store (Antigo) to look at one. They had one display model left, and were in the process of selling that one to someone else. I asked if they had any more available, and after the sporting goods manager did some checking, I was told they had 3 left, but in a Green Bay store. I wasn't about to drive to Green Bay from Antigo, and told him so, but he said they could have one shipped from Green Bay to the Antigo store... but it'd take about a week or two to do so, and I'd have to pay for it first. I said to go ahead and ship it, and I'd use my Visa card to pay now. Before leaving the store, I called two friends who were also looking for a good deal on a safe, and they both wanted one also... so I had all 3 shipped to Antigo from Green Bay, and a week or so later we drove down to Antigo with a pick-up truck and snowmobile trailer and picked them up when they called me to say they had been delivered. There was no "extra" charge for this, but I did have to pay for all 3 up front, before they'd ship them. From the OP it doesn't appear that they have one in the whaehouse but instead have some in stores in Minnesota. Why would they ship an ice shack, and incure the costs of shipping, from a store where they are sure to sell? WIth the ice year we are having this year you will be finding deals on shacks soon enough. |
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Kinda dumb that they'd have one in the warehouse and won't ship it direct to the store nearest you for pick-up. Not a very good sales policy, IMO, and not how they used to do things. A few years back, they had a sale on Cannon gun safes ($850 safe on sale at $599). I saw it in their sale paper, and drove 60 miles to the nearest store (Antigo) to look at one. They had one display model left, and were in the process of selling that one to someone else. I asked if they had any more available, and after the sporting goods manager did some checking, I was told they had 3 left, but in a Green Bay store. I wasn't about to drive to Green Bay from Antigo, and told him so, but he said they could have one shipped from Green Bay to the Antigo store... but it'd take about a week or two to do so, and I'd have to pay for it first. I said to go ahead and ship it, and I'd use my Visa card to pay now. Before leaving the store, I called two friends who were also looking for a good deal on a safe, and they both wanted one also... so I had all 3 shipped to Antigo from Green Bay, and a week or so later we drove down to Antigo with a pick-up truck and snowmobile trailer and picked them up when they called me to say they had been delivered. There was no "extra" charge for this, but I did have to pay for all 3 up front, before they'd ship them. From the OP it doesn't appear that they have one in the whaehouse but instead have some in stores in Minnesota. Why would they ship an ice shack, and incure the costs of shipping, from a store where they are sure to sell? WIth the ice year we are having this year you will be finding deals on shacks soon enough. I guess I misunderstood him. I thought they had some in a warehouse. The stores in MN likely have a differant warehouse than the stores that are serviced by the Appleton warehouse, and maybe there's not trucks going from Appleton to MN or vica-versa, on a regular basis. My situation was differant. Both stores in question were served by the same warehouse, so there was minimal shipping costs. They didn't just send an empty truck to Green Bay to pick up those 3 safes and drive them over to Antigo. They explained why it'd take up to two weeks. When a truck delivered other items from the warehouse in Appleton to the Green Bay store, instead of going back empty, they'd put the 3 safes on that truck to take back to the warehouse. The next available delivery (that had room in the trailer) from that warehouse to Antigo would then bring the safes to Antigo. It wasn't a "special delivery". Just became part of normal deliveries to the stores, which they said happen at least twice per week, but they'd have to have the space on the full truck going from warehouse to Antigo, which may take some time. It took about 10 days. I just recently bought an Otter Sled from them. The nearest store is 60 miles away, so I was gonna buy it "on-line". The sled was "on sale" for $70. To ship it to my home was $54.95. Screw that. Luckily for me, I got a service call in that direction a few days later, and picked one up at the store (got the last one, too). 
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