I was at Cabela's yesterday. I bought some targets and paid. As I paid, I noticed that what I was charged wasn't the same price as what I thought I had seen on the rack where the item was displayed. I asked the cashier to check the correct price in the computer. She showed me the higher price. I started to walk out, but then decided to go back to where the items were displayed and check the price myself.

Boom! They had not charged me the sale price. They had charged me 1/3 more.

I took a photo of the two prices with my phone and went back to stand in line to talk to the cashier again. She said she couldn't help me, I would have to go to Customer Service. I went and stood in that line. The guy in front of me started ripping them for not having given him the sale price on an item he had carried home. They had overcharged him $50. He was using the words "fraud" and "scam". The Cabela's guy was just shrugging his shoulders. When I got to the front of the line, I showed them my photo of their prices and they quickly gave me my money back.

Here's the problem. This is the second time in the last few months Cabela's has done that to me; showed me a sale price back on the rack, then charged me the higher price at check-out. I mentioned this in an email to a few friends later, and they had identical stories.

Is this just an accident, or is Cabela's intentionally playing "games" and pocketing the difference? One of my friend's said that when it happened to him the second time, he chewed the cashier out, left the item on the counter, and walked out.

I have trouble believing they just have a sloppy computerized pricing system. The lesson-learned is, be careful when shopping at Cabela's.

Cabela’s is not “Cabela’s” anymore...bought by Bass Pro. Got a notice in the mail that my Cabela’s Card would be replaced with a Capital One card.

Probably liquidating the Cabela’s Line stuff and using the name of a now defunct business as cover for fraud...throwing up those gimmick sales and conveniently forgetting to update computer system.

Sad for a once great company name.

I've always gotten great service and product from Cabela's, and I've found their own brand to be of excellent quality over the years. Perhaps things have changed.

Does every fucking thing in the world today have to be of nefarious intent?

I had the exact same thing happen to me at a local Cabelas, I had to walk the cashier back to the reloading dept and show her. Her answer was "customers lie all the time". The reality is that big retail stores make millions of dollars with these "Mistakes". Do a little research online and you will find this epidemic has been going on for years, especially in the grocery stores, where it is hard to read all the prices as they pop up on the screen so fast. A buck from every other customer adds up into real money fast!

This happened to me earlier this spring at the Cabela's in Lubbock. The sticker price was much lower than what rung up at the register. I pointed this out to the cashier and she dashed back to look at the price. When she returned, she agree the price was marked lower and changed it to that price. No biggie to me, you just have to be paying attention.

Blaming the cashier is like blaming the weatherman.

Happened to me yesterday at walmart buying bank sinkers.....took an extra minute of my time for the gal to get it right. The horror.....the horror. I bet you all clip coupons too.

Our Cabela's here will take up at least 10 minutes of your time to check-out. I stood in line last month with twelve other customers while Cabela's had one lane open. After about five minutes, I walked over to Customer Service and asked them WTF. It took another five minutes for them to open another register. They are poorly managed, and aren't paying attention. I f I had another option, I would use it.

For the holidays, there are so many temporary employees that at best, you both go hunting for what you are looking for. For the most part, they haven't been there long enough to be a help, and they will be gone in a month.

Fussing at the clerk is pointless. They know how to run an item across the scanner and that's it. Their training period is about the same as learning how to say "would you like fries with that".
Go, at least, to the manager or if you're serious, write a letter to the CEO.

Countless times I have been in the fine gun room and still have never been approached. There is a line between walking on a car lot and getting attacked by a salesman and being ignored. Also, the only time I go to Cabela’s is after I have court in McKinney, so I’m in a suit and don’t look like a hobo.

I have had mixed experiences at Cabela's.

The only behavior of the clerks that I have had a little bit of a problem with, is that the folks working behind the counter in firearms/ammunition department, all too often seem to judge customers by how they are dressed.

This comment right here

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Also, the only time I go to Cabela’s is after I have court in McKinney, so I’m in a suit and don’t look like a hobo.

is really pretty offensive on several levels.

Just because a person is not in a suit, that does not mean they can't reach into their wallet and pull out several thousand dollars and pay for any thing they want on the spot.

That comment shows a level of snobbery or bigotry that really should not exist.

I've told this story here before but here we go again. I had an uncle up in Wichita Falls that had a large cattle business.He also had a fondness for Cadillac convertibles,pink. I think he was impressed by Hud.Anyway every year he would buy a new one. He would ride the pastures sitting on top of the seat + working the accelerator with a cane.Anyway one day they were out cutting calves (castration). so you know he looked + smelled real good.Somehow he decided that was when he wanted to go to the dealership + get his new caddy.He got some new salesman + told him,"I'll take that one + I want it painted pink + I will come pick it up this evening".The new kid started giving him the bums rush about the time the owner looked out of his office + came rushing to the rescue. Point well taken;don't judge a man by his apperance. Back to Cabelas;I hope that Bass Pro Shop will still honor all my Cabelas points,they say they will but...?Also when they opened their shop in Buda,one of the stipulations for opening the store here + (creating jobs) was to keep the sales tax money. They collect it but it does not go to the state but back to Nebraska for additional revenue.

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Originally posted by richj:
Blaming the cashier is like blaming the weatherman.

Exactly.
Wrong person to blame.

Stopped at Cabela's in Bristol, VA yesterday. The fine gun room did not have many rifles at all, lots of empty space. Only one small rack of used guns to look at. Will probably stop at the stores in Hartford and Scarborough today.

That's an unfortunate experience for sure, but I wouldn't give up on Cabela's just yet, guys. I've had my experiences with them in the past, the pricing is a little high, but it's hard to beat the selection and it's just damn fun to go there and goof around.

As others have said, don't get pissed at the cashier. One, they didn't have anything to do with it, and two, they don't give a crap. You should never pay more for something, so take it up with customer service or the manager. I've had them NOT charge me for items, so I'm coming out ahead.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
I've told this story here before but here we go again. I had an uncle up in Wichita Falls that had a large cattle business.He also had a fondness for Cadillac convertibles,pink. I think he was impressed by Hud.Anyway every year he would buy a new one. He would ride the pastures sitting on top of the seat + working the accelerator with a cane.Anyway one day they were out cutting calves (castration). so you know he looked + smelled real good.Somehow he decided that was when he wanted to go to the dealership + get his new caddy.He got some new salesman + told him,"I'll take that one + I want it painted pink + I will come pick it up this evening".The new kid started giving him the bums rush about the time the owner looked out of his office + came rushing to the rescue. Point well taken;don't judge a man by his apperance. Back to Cabelas;I hope that Bass Pro Shop will still honor all my Cabelas points,they say they will but...?Also when they opened their shop in Buda,one of the stipulations for opening the store here + (creating jobs) was to keep the sales tax money. They collect it but it does not go to the state but back to Nebraska for additional revenue.

I'm "supposedly" (don't count the money until it's in your fist) selling a 62 Cadillac PINK tomorrow, but it was not your Uncle's. 4 door. Nice car, my daughter won't be happy.

Please source your "keep sales tax revenue" statement. I flat don't believe it.

I did not intend to offend DCS member or anyone else, but for sales people or anyone dealing with customers in any kind of business to make a judgement call on a person simply on how they are dressed is just plain wrong.

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I did not intend to offend DCS member or anyone else, but for sales people or anyone dealing with customers in any kind of business to make a judgement call on a person simply on how they are dressed is just plain wrong.

Why is it wrong? Most people with money wear decent clothes and, I might add, take a bath regularly. Many people without money do just the opposite.

If you want to be respected by others, dress like a mensch.

I don't see anything wrong with that statement. What you wear, what you drive, what you live in, what you own doesn't define who you are.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
I don't see anything wrong with that statement. What you wear, what you drive, what you live in, what you own doesn't define who you are.

Oh horseshit, spoken like a true flower child.

If you want to get into the metaphysical, please tell us what defines "who you are" and how one can tell that on first inspection.

I went back and read every post again twice, in none did anyone rip on the cashier. They reported the facts as they happened, and no-one blamed the cashier. They scan the price and have no call on what the computer says. In my case, I was surprised that she shut down the register to go with me to see the posted price, especially since it was the only register open and there were five people in line behind me. There sure are a lot of people around here that fire from the lip before engaging their brain.

I believe most of the remarks about cashiers were generic. Meaning it was pointless to engage the cashier.
As far as the cashier disserviceing 5 customers, it was totally wrong. She should have had a supervisor or manager go with you. It's not her job to reconcile problems, it's her job to run stuff across the scanner AND KEEP THINGS MOVING.

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Most people

MOST is not ALL, and that is a fact!

You old enough to remember Howard Hughes and how he dressed???

It has been proven too many times that judging a Book or a Person by their cover is not a really wise manner of doing things.

I personally knew a gentleman that always wore Khaki shirts and pants and "Gimmie Caps" and for all practical purposes looked just like any other farmer/ranch hand whatever, that owned a couple of businesses, several hundred acres of farm and pasture land and carried 2K or more in his billfold daily.

No Sir, judging ANYONE by their outward appearance, whether it is the color of their skin, their sex, length of their hair or the clothes they wear, is BIGOTRY plain and simple!

Luckily many Americans, regardless of their personal political ideology have stopped judging other Americans by those criteria.

Crazy,

You totally missed my point. I am much more comfortable in boots and jeans, but my profession dictates otherwise. I should have said the “salesmen” are always in the office goofing off in the computer instead of helping a potential customer.

Your "inspection" Gato doesn't mean shit. No one either asked for it or needs it. What defines you is how you treat people, how you raise your kids, etc. No flower child there. Just common sense.

Anyone judging people by how they dress, what they drive, or what they own are pretty shallow individuals. I stopped doing that when I was about 23.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
Your "inspection" Gato doesn't mean shit. No one either asked for it or needs it. What defines you is how you treat people, how you raise your kids, etc. No flower child there. Just common sense.

Anyone judging people by how they dress, what they drive, or what they own are pretty shallow individuals. I stopped doing that when I was about 23.

More horseshit! Please tell me how you determine how someone treats people, how they raise their kids, etc. by physical inspection on first meeting? If you say how they dress doesn't impact your evaluation, you're not telling the truth.

I'm the last person to argue that dressing well doesn't help with first impressions, because I always wear well worn overalls, and a T shirt. I get misjudged by people all the time. Of course, I don't give a shit, my credit and checks are still good.

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You totally missed my point.

I did not miss your point at all.

You believe that the sales people should have responded to you quicker because you were in a suit and, in YOUR WORDS, not dressed as a HOBO!!!!!!

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More horseshit! Please tell me how you determine how someone treats people, how they raise their kids, etc. by physical inspection on first meeting? If you say how they dress doesn't impact your evaluation, you're not telling the truth.

I'm the last person to argue that dressing well doesn't help with first impressions, because I always wear well worn overalls, and a T shirt. I get misjudged by people all the time. Of course, I don't give a shit, my credit and checks are still good.

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Why is it wrong? Most people with money wear decent clothes and, I might add, take a bath regularly. Many people without money do just the opposite. If you want to be respected by others, dress like a mensch.

Care to look at your statements and rationalize them? On one hand you are saying that how a person dresses should not matter and on the other how a person dresses, directly determines how they will be judged by others!

Either you judge people upon how they are dressed or you don't!

We ALL, and humans always have looked for the differences between ourselves and those we come in contact with and judge EVERYONE by our own PERSONAL standards. That will never change.

"physical inspection on first meeting" are your words, not mine.

Crazy,

You are fired up. Simmer.

I will change the subject and say I watched “Hell or High Water” tonight. Cool movies.

Charlie,believe it or not,I don't care. The article was written by Jim Hightower;our past ag. commissioner. I would think that he has a bit more insight in to the workings of the state capital than either you or I.

Dressing and how one looks are geographic.

No one in Florida really judges anyone's wealth on clothes or dressing. Cause the state as a whole dresses like crap. One of the great things about Florida.

Hong Kong or Singapore how you dress, what you wear, the wrist watch all matter.

Overall I would say appearances do matter. I personally don't give a f@ck cause I buy my clothes on academy clearance racks, i will be dressed in golf shirts for the next few years - they were cheap.

But I would not wear shorts, t-shirt and crocs to a London best gun room if you want to handle the merchandise.

Mike

Mike,

I will buy you a drink at DSC. Excuse me for wearing a sport coat and nice boots, but we will enjoy a nice bourbon or whisky.

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Originally posted by DCS Member:
Mike,

I will buy you a drink at DSC. Excuse me for wearing a sport coat and nice boots, but we will enjoy a nice bourbon or whisky.

There will be a deplorable table at the bubye valley booth if they don't kick us off. Unlike the ARPF there will be little political talk and a fair bit of hunting, guns and fishing talk. I will have the bourbon - I provide alcohol in limited controlled quantities to the deplorables. Stop by.

Or else I will be at save safaris booth, blaser booth or else wandering around.

Will pm you my contact info.

Mike

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:

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You totally missed my point.

I did not miss your point at all.

You believe that the sales people should have responded to you quicker because you were in a suit and, in YOUR WORDS, not dressed as a HOBO!!!!!!

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More horseshit! Please tell me how you determine how someone treats people, how they raise their kids, etc. by physical inspection on first meeting? If you say how they dress doesn't impact your evaluation, you're not telling the truth.

I'm the last person to argue that dressing well doesn't help with first impressions, because I always wear well worn overalls, and a T shirt. I get misjudged by people all the time. Of course, I don't give a shit, my credit and checks are still good.

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Why is it wrong? Most people with money wear decent clothes and, I might add, take a bath regularly. Many people without money do just the opposite. If you want to be respected by others, dress like a mensch.

Care to look at your statements and rationalize them? On one hand you are saying that how a person dresses should not matter and on the other how a person dresses, directly determines how they will be judged by others!

Either you judge people upon how they are dressed or you don't!

We ALL, and humans always have looked for the differences between ourselves and those we come in contact with and judge EVERYONE by our own PERSONAL standards. That will never change.

Simple, I don't have any need to be respected by others. OTOH, I damn sure judge someone by their dress/appaearance. If you say you don't you're lying. I can set up a simple test that would prove you wrong every time.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
Charlie,believe it or not,I don't care. The article was written by Jim Hightower;our past ag. commissioner. I would think that he has a bit more insight in to the workings of the state capital than either you or I.

Well, source the article.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
"physical inspection on first meeting" are your words, not mine.

Really? Please quote me where I said that. No wonder I was confused by your "inspection" reference.

Here is the statement that this,

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by physical inspection on first meeting

came from.

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More horseshit! Please tell me how you determine how someone treats people, how they raise their kids, etc. by physical inspection on first meeting? If you say how they dress doesn't impact your evaluation, you're not telling the truth.

I do however agree completely with Gato on the following:

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Simple, I don't have any need to be respected by others. OTOH, I damn sure judge someone by their dress/appaearance. If you say you don't you're lying. I can set up a simple test that would prove you wrong every time.

I see it every damn day of the week. Everyone does it, some more overtly others more covertly, but to deny it does not happen is simply not true.

Damn, Crazy gets a gold star for once in his life.

BTW that "physical inspection" quote came after his "your 'inspection" reference.

My Aston Martin rep. once told me the story of how one customer came in, spec'd out his car wearing shorts, a T shirt and sandals. He then whipped out his checkbook and paid for it in full. I was wearing scrubs, anteater cowboy boots and had to make payments..............

Sadly Cabelas of today is no longer that of over a decade ago (the '00s and prior), where one bought heavy, durable and lasting goods: eg those heavy T shirts, good quality woolen pants, etc. The crap they sold in the "20-teens" was just that- crap.

Fortunately, I had stocked up and despite my gear being 10+ years old, it is in near new condition with many years left on it. My only regret is only having 1-2s of the items and not 5-6s...and of course having to drop the lbs every hunting season to still fit!!!

Before it became a brick and mortar, even though you bought stuff sight unseen, you knew you were getting quality. The only utility I've found in the current Cabelas is to be able to handle merchandise so that when I buy online I can make a more educated decision irrespective of whether or not I've actually physically handled the items I purchase.

PS Despite being a total asshole, I've always known who deserves my wrath......it usually isn't the lowest ring on the totem pole. In the end, you'll simply be an asshole with nothing in your pocket whereas the higher up the ladder you go, you'll still be an asshole, only with something in your pocket.

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you'll still be an asshole, only with something in your pocket.

I'd damn sure prefer that category.

Reminds me of a favorite old quote; People who say money can't buy happiness don't know where to shop.