Cabellas

11BravoCrunchie · January 02, 2007 15:51

would like the opinion of the forum on what happened to me today at Cabellas in E Hartord CT.

I took a number.

I immediately went to a Colt US Army Speical that I had examined one week before. It locked up tight, everything was right. Some holster wear.

I waffled last week but came back today to buy the Colt beating myself up for not buying last week.

Ahhh crap...... A salesman approached these two buyers and they asked to see my coveted Colt...

I was hovering over the counter waiting for my number to be called while two guys were examining my prize. I was kicking my ass knowing they were going to buy this US ARMY SPECIAL right out from under my reticent decision from the week's past.

They took about ten agonizing minutes to decide they didn't want to buy the Colt. It was a long.....long.......long.....10 minutes.

YES..they said NO.........

The salesman then took the Colt from their reluctant hands and to my surprise, didn't put it back in the case.

I immediately said to him, "hey Davis, I want to buy that Colt."

He turned his back to me and placed it upon the rack case for the shotguns.

I repeated: "Dave, I want to buy that gun."

He retorted, "ughhh wait." as he scooped up my prize and walked back into the "back room".

You all know the "back room" where you have to slide you ID card to get into.

I followed him as he disappeared into that "mysterious back room".

I waited for about two minutes and he emerged with a pink piece of paper in his hand.

As I observered this, I once again said to Dave:

"Hey Dave, I want to buy that Colt."

He abrubrtly turned to me, next to another salesman and said:

"I am buying this gun"

I was stunnned....How could a salesman buy this gun right out from underneath my waiting hands?

I crumpled up my "bakery ticket", threw it in a barrel of promotions, and marched away seething in his "coup d'etat"

Nope....not a chance was this slimeball getting away with this jig.

I marched down to the courtesy desk and promptly asked for the store manager.

Two minutes later, he was beside me, and I explained the situation. We, together, went back upstairs to the gun shop. I hung back as the manager confronted the salesman. They had to come up with an explanation.

The manager came back and spun a story that the salesman had that particular Colt on "layaway" for himself, and somehow it was returned to the glass case for sale. Huhhhhh???????????

I saw the salesman come out from the back with a new pink layaway slip for himself while I waited for him to sell me the revolver???

I was there one week ago and it was for sale. I was there today, in the present moment, and it was for sale. On lay away ???????Huh??????????

The funny aspect was, the guys who were examining the Colt were really talking it up. Great lock up, old, nice bluing, etc etc...

Salesman interrupted: "Oh, I am a Smith & Wesson Man" he bragged..

The two fellas were so close to buying this Colt I was resigned to their championship over my waffling stupidity.

But hey, they declined and I was "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To his credit, the manager explained that this salesman had "made a mistake" and indeed I could purchase the Colt.

Ahhhh ha... I had a commitment for my Colt US Army Special circa 1922 in almost pristine condition. Ahh some holster wear.

I went through the druggery of the paperwork and to my surprise, and delight, I had a "in store 10% discount" upon an already super low price for this Colt.

So..here is the question:

Would you be pissed off about the salesman's trickery?

Or would you be happy, because not only did Cabellas "do the right thing", but also gave me a 10% discount on an already very underpriced Colt ($259.00)

Cabellas

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