Bass Pro..King of the Hill

[Larryh128]

Your Cabelas points don't come from interest on other accounts, the 1% comes straight off the processing fees from cabelas having their own cards. The average cost to use your card is 3%or higher, they are rebating you 1% that they get from the processing fees.

 

[joshb]

I bought my first "lure kit" from Cabela's back in 1969 or 70, when they were a mail order add in the back of Field and Stream. Bought so much stuff over the years, They used to send me the hard cover catalogs. Sad times these days.

 

[284winner]

Been in scheels in one of the Dakotas back in mid 2000s. Nice store and yes for the shooter I'll agree, awesome.

 

[JimT]

Cabelas points earned by using a Cabelas Visa card on all my purchases (incl. business related goods) and making sure I pay off the card in full -on time- every month......something the younger generation does not seem to grasp (compounding interest charges on unpaid balances)

So you got "thousands of dollars of free merchandise" by spending tens of thousands of dollars on Cabela's overpriced merchandise? I suspect even a millennial could grasp that there is nothing "free" in that equation!

OBTW, you might want to educate yourself on millennial's usage of credit cards:

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/consumer-index/money-pulse-0616.aspx

And as far as carrying credit card balances you might be interested in the facts below:

https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-credit-card-debt

 

[LHSmith]

So you got "thousands of dollars of free merchandise" by spending tens of thousands of dollars on Cabela's overpriced merchandise? I suspect even a millennial could grasp that there is nothing "free" in that equation!

OBTW, you might want to educate yourself on millennial's usage of credit cards:

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/consumer-index/money-pulse-0616.aspx

And as far as carrying credit card balances you might be interested in the facts below:

https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-credit-card-debt

Perhaps I wasn't clear...I actually bought very little merchandise at Cabela's.....the card was/is used for everything but sporting goods. When I was engaged in business full time, I had enough points at the end of the year for the wife to buy Christmas gifts for the entire family. I am closest to the Hamburg, PA store where the Amish have made buying with their Cabelas card and turning it into free stuff into an art form. As far as facts on credit card usage, I believe only what I see.

 

[Jammer Six]

Your observations are biased and therefore flawed.

 

[LHSmith]

Your observations are biased and therefore flawed.

Thank you. Your response is important to us....no matter how irrelevant it may be to the thread

 

[Jammer Six]

You're welcome.

 

[Tuxedo007]

I'm glad I don't need any more stuff!

If I do, I know where I won't be going to get it! LOL

 

[Tuxedo007]

Last time I even mentioned bass pro buying cabelas, the forum boss deleted the thread and warned me to keep my mouth shut....hmmm

What can one say...?

 

[hoz53]

What can one say...?

This whole thread reminds me I used to live a few miles from a Sheels and now I live in an area where there are no gun stores that come close to them. Don't need to be any closer to Cabelas now.

 

[JimT]

Perhaps I wasn't clear...I actually bought very little merchandise at Cabela's.....the card was/is used for everything but sporting goods. When I was engaged in business full time, I had enough points at the end of the year for the wife to buy Christmas gifts for the entire family. I am closest to the Hamburg, PA store where the Amish have made buying with their Cabelas card and turning it into free stuff into an art form. As far as facts on credit card usage, I believe only what I see....and today's youth (mainly female) have no restraint when it comes to buying on credit ......strictly based on my observations.

Well your observations don't match up with mine.

Did it occur to you that your "observations" are based on an aberrant sample of "mainly female youth" BTW, how do you know the credit card balance of some "mainly female youth?"

Given these facts, along with other specious facts/observations you have made on this topic, as well as your discounting actual documented facts on the subject, I place little confidence in your observations.

 

[Tuxedo007]

This whole thread reminds me I used to live a few miles from a Sheels and now I live in an area where there are no gun stores that come close to them. Now I know I don't need to move nears a Cabelas mabie back to Sheels land would be good.

I guess I'm fortunate. The nearest Cabela's is at least 50 miles away & I have no idea where the nearest Bass "Novice" is! I have been "forced?" to do business with my local stores & people who I know & trust! They either always have had or quickly obtained what I wanted & at a fair price! They didn't have the high overhead of a "big box" store(which is all Cabela's or Bass Novice is), and you didn't/don't have to try to educate someone about what you're trying to buy(as you usually have to in the "big box" stores)! I do sort of feel sorry for the Cabela's working stiffs, they're the ones who will get the shaft! "Bass Novice" will probably replace the Cabela's personnel with Novice Novices(translation: people who know nothing about what they're supposed to be selling!) Oh! The thrill of it all! Thank goodness for small, independent, local businesses!

 

[Tuxedo007]

Well your observations don't match up with mine.

Did it occur to you that your "observations" are based on an aberrant sample of "mainly female youth" BTW, how do you know the credit card balance of some "mainly female youth?"

Given these facts, along with other specious facts/observations you have made on this topic, as well as your discounting actual documented facts on the subject, I place little confidence in your observations.

Don't use big words that you don't understand! If you have so little confidence in LH Smith's observations, why did you respond? In this present environment, everybody thinks "THEY" are the ones whose fact's & observations are supreme! You can also find "documented facts" on any subject you want & if you look long enough, you'll find some that, strangely enough, agree almost exactly with YOUR point of view! Unless I logged onto the wrong forum(I didn't, I checked!) presumably you would find me most presumptuous to remind you that the title of said forum is "Shooters Forum", not a forum where someone can call another's observations "specious facts" or the accusations of aberrant samples!

JimT, the majority of us here really couldn't care less whether your observations match up with anyone else's! As Jack Webb used to say "Dragnet", "Just the facts, ma'm!"

 

[hoz53]

I guess I'm fortunate. The nearest Cabela's is at least 50 miles away & I have no idea where the nearest Bass "Novice" is! I have been "forced?" to do business with my local stores & people who I know & trust! They either always have had or quickly obtained what I wanted & at a fair price! They didn't have the high overhead of a "big box" store(which is all Cabela's or Bass Novice is), and you didn't/don't have to try to educate someone about what you're trying to buy(as you usually have to in the "big box" stores)! I do sort of feel sorry for the Cabela's working stiffs, they're the ones who will get the shaft! "Bass Novice" will probably replace the Cabela's personnel with Novice Novices(translation: people who know nothing about what they're supposed to be selling!) Oh! The thrill of it all! Thank goodness for small, independent, local businesses!

Yeah I can get a few things around here but there are no good sized gun shops I can go and browse the inventory. I miss that. I don't need a chain store just a good store.

 

[JimT]

Don't use big words that you don't understand! If you have so little confidence in LH Smith's observations, why did you respond? In this present environment, everybody thinks "THEY" are the ones whose fact's & observations are supreme! You can also find "documented facts" on any subject you want & if you look long enough, you'll find some that, strangely enough, agree almost exactly with YOUR point of view! Unless I logged onto the wrong forum(I didn't, I checked!) presumably you would find me most presumptuous to remind you that the title of said forum is "Shooters Forum", not a forum where someone can call another's observations "specious facts" or the accusations of aberrant samples!

JimT, the majority of us here really couldn't care less whether your observations match up with anyone else's! As Jack Webb used to say "Dragnet", "Just the facts, ma'm!"

I provided the facts above, maybe you can have someone read them to you?

 

[LHSmith]

Cleaned up my posts so not to offend the opinion police. Bottom line- Cabelas has been very good to me irregardless of how they can afford to offer their Cabela's point system.

 

[/VH]

Cleaned up my posts so not to offend the opinion police. Bottom line- Cabelas has been very good to me irregardless of how they can afford to offer their Cabela's point system.

Origin of irregardless
1910-15; ir-2(probably after irrespective) +regardless
Can be confused
irregardless, regardless (see usage note atthe current entry)
Usage note
Irregardless is considered nonstandardbecause of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy ofsuch words as irrespective, irrelevant, andirreparable. Those who use it, including onoccasion educated speakers, may do so from adesire to add emphasis. Irregardless firstappeared in the early 20th century and wasperhaps popularized by its use in a comic radioprogram of the 1930s.
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Couldn't resist stirring the pot.....not only bettern the funny papers but a 1930s radio show, as well!

 

[JRS]

Origin of irregardless
1910-15; ir-2(probably after irrespective) +regardless
Can be confused
irregardless, regardless (see usage note atthe current entry)
Usage note
Irregardless is considered nonstandardbecause of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy ofsuch words as irrespective, irrelevant, andirreparable. Those who use it, including onoccasion educated speakers, may do so from adesire to add emphasis. Irregardless firstappeared in the early 20th century and wasperhaps popularized by its use in a comic radioprogram of the 1930s.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © RandomHouse, Inc. 2016.

Couldn't resist stirring the pot.....not only bettern the funny papers but a 1930s radio show, as well!

Possibly the Amos 'n' Andy Show

 

[GrocMax]

Have a BPS, GM, and Cabelas local to me and Cabelas is by far the better place for shooters. They actually have reasonably priced supplies, with sale bargains on occasion. GM used to be decent, went to shizzle about 4 years ago. BPS- fuggedabouddit.