Originally Posted by
bigtim6656
I have ran my own buisness and helped run another. You are right. I am not one of the guys who run off buy a bunch of stuff from bass pro and ask a local store to do all the work. I would expect someone to want a bunch of money for it. I told the local guy i ordered my arrows from today that i now felt guilty having to ask gander to match him. Plus i feel guilty i doubt 800 dollars worth of stuff at gander and my arrows from him. He had no proplem with it. He told me normaly he gets his customers from gander when it comes to buying the arrows and they see the cost and quality of work. I am loyal if i find a good shop i will stick with them. I do not like the local shop in sullivan because i was in there one day and was telling the guy how i got a box of 45 hallow points for 30 bucks. He said why in the heck did you buy them from f*ckmart and not me. He did not have them and his price was 50 bucks. He is also a a**hole think you should pay him double the price for everything.
I do not mind paying more if it is for a reason. Like paying you for a perfect fleatch or to tune my bow.
Also tell your girlfriend i said good luck with school. It is alot of work going to law school. I am real lucky i get paid to go then my loan and everything. Sucks they cut here loan i know a guy who was getting 3800 and it went down to 2800. Come to find out his math teacher dropped him because he had not turned anything in and the work was not even due yet. All my hunting money went out months ago for school stuff. SO i felt i had the right to take it out of my loan. Kind of like repaying my self. Plus not like it is free money i will be repaying it anyway
Yeah none of that was directed at you Tim.... I was on a rant haha.
Products are products... and most people could care less where they come from. You are pretty much right that he is crazy to expect people to pay 60% more for the same product. Bullets are kind of a bad example though in 2009... especially handgun ammo. The market has been so volitile that people will pay just about any price to have it.... I think we've had 7 boxes of .380 ammo come through the store since January. The market will dictate the price.
That shop, much like ours I suspect, gets loyalty out of their service and their sheer amount of knowledge. If a high school kid as Pro Bass does a bad job on a bow... he probably won't know about it.... and probably doesn't overwhelmingly care... he wants his pay check and his discount. If somebody comes in and a peep I tied in has rotated from the string settling.... I want to know about it! I take it extremely personally that everything I do to a customers bow is exactly as I would have it done myself. Thats what keeps customers coming back.
The good thing about having higher than normal prices on products (from a retailer's standpoint) is that you can dang near always give someone a discount without losing your shirt or being undersold... infact we pretty much figure that into our pricing... makes people feel good.... and they get the same product at the same price anyway... you can always go down after all..... and again.... it makes it more personal. Lots of people could care less... because they know we need to keep the lights on... and if they don't buy the product then the service won't be there in the long run.... it is very give and take.
Katie is in her second year of law school now. She hates it. Thats kinda the idea anyway. Apparently law school is kinda like navy seal training. She did intern work over the summer and loved it.... its what she's always wanted to do.... she'll make a great attorney.