WOW, clearly you people need some experience in retail sales. I used to work at Bass Pro as a second job....fantastic discount and lots of fun! I dealt with this on a daily basis. Sales flyer would come out, people would drive hours to come get so and so gun that was on sale...sure enough we wouldnt have any and theyd be pissed. Id ask them if they wanted a rain check and some would be content with that and others would fly off the handle. Did it bother me? Not at all, theres a wonderful invention called the phone...use it. How hard is it to call and ask if something is in stock? You can even put one on hold!!! What a concept.

These places are there to make money, of course the sales are gimmicks, thats the point. Dont blame the store because you didnt have the foresight to check first. As for not knowing what exactly comes in on shipments...very true, we didnt have a clue until the truck came in. The powers that be do the ordering. It doesnt filter down to the grunts and we have no way of knowing what the suppliers themselves have in their own stocks.

Heres another bit of advice. The service you receive is directly proportional to what comes out your mouth. You get an attitude with the floor guy and his willingness to help you plummets. I once had a customer who was very nice, I showed him guns for at least 1.5 hours. He was constantly apologizing for making me go back and forth handing him rifles....he went through every one we had. He and I had a nice long conversation the whole time, it didnt bother me at all to do that for him.