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Cabela's v. Bass Pro Shops
The BPS house brand sucks too..
I fish therefore I lie |
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Cabela's v. Bass Pro Shops
Rich Z is 100% on target, as usual. I have far more retail experience than I
wish I had, in both owning a high end independent Audio/Video/Autosound store (over 20 years) and managing a Best Buy store for a while, all this after managing a huge machine shop for years. From what I learned in all those years, I determined at the gitgo was that Secret Weapon would not be made available to any of the big power retailers until we were big enough and strong enough to deal with them on our own terms. Instead, we will be targeting good independent tackle dealers. BPS now has their own version of a spinnerbait with interchangeable blades, and will hopefully consider that reason enough to avoid trying to copy us right away. I don't know how their blade changing system works, but fortunately the lure still remains the older first generation design with none of the performance advantages for which Secret Weapon was designed and built. -- Bob Rickard www.secretweaponlures.com --------------------------=x O'))) "Josh" wrote in message ... I agree with Rich. I have nothing to sell, but noticed the same thing. The only question I have and maybe Rich knows is... do they by any chance contract with the inventors at a discount price to produce for BP under the BP name ? That is would they take a Secret Weapon spinnerbait concept, twist it a little and have SW make it for them as a BP version? I do think.. most of corp america's ethics are non existent. -- God Bless America Josh The Bad Bear |
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Cabela's v. Bass Pro Shops
J Buck wrote:
I've read several posts (both positive and negative) on Cabela's, but very little on Bass Pro Shops. Is either better in some particular way? Better selection, prices, service, etc.? Thanks Cabela's gets most (almost all) of my orders. It used to be Bass Pro, but I only order from them if I cannot find it anywhere else. I was a long time loyal customer of theirs, but they abruptly refused to send their catalogs to Canadian customers without payment for the catalog. Their orders also take substantially longer to arrive as well. It was not just the fact that they refused to send catalogs, but also the manner in which their customer service department (with the exception of one person) dealt with me. I've rarely heard complaints about Cabela's service and their prices, if not the lowest, will be close enough not to matter. I've never had a problem with an order from Cabela's. -- John x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 3,500+ Binary NewsGroups, and over 90,000 other groups x-- Access to over 800 Gigs/Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD |
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Cabela's v. Bass Pro Shops
I'm not gonna argue with some of the negative things said about BPS here,
because I don't know about them one way or the other. I've never had a problem with Cabela's (or BPS, for that matter), they're a fine outfit to deal with. But they have nothing. Just look at the two catalogs and compare crankbaits, soft plastics, etc. and it's evident that Cabela's isn't even close to BPS in selection, which is why I haven't placed an order with them in three or four years. |
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