Desk Jockey
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Short version. Beware of buying guns from big box clowns.
So I live about 120 miles from a Bass Pro. I shop there now and then. Usually pop in when I find myself passing by on the way to something else. Last time was in May 2024. While I was there, they had a sale price on a handgun I had been eyeing, I had some points built up on my membership credit card, bought the gun and walked out with no problems.
Flash forward to December, and I am looking for a magnum research 22lr switchbolt for a new steel challenge boomer. A bit hard to come by and sportsman’s warehouse and bass pro are the closest options without doing an internet sale and paying at least 15% in shipping and transfer fees. Their prices are the same but I have some more points to spend so I buy it on bass pro and opt for ship to store delivery.
I go to pick it up and they tell me they can’t sell me a gun because my state issued drivers license lists my address with the abbreviation. “SR” and doesn’t spell out “State Route” like their computer wants it to. I show them 3 other forms of ID with “SR”. They look up and admit their own retail order system uses “SR”. They say, “sorry, come back with something that says “State Route””. I say “WTF, the deed to my house abbreviates the address SR. There is nothing I have that spells it out. You sold me a gun 7 months ago in this store.” After 45 minutes of listening to them tell me I should have Pennsylvania reissue my license and come back, I left. I spent another 45 mins on the phone with their customer service only to finally get to the store manager who is like “come back. We can try again later in the week”. To which I responded, “this is a 5 hour round trip. My license matches the address on my order form. I have never had any trouble buying dozens of guns elsewhere and I am not driving down here again to give it another try”. He even admitted that they have this issue more than once a week.
Flipping crazy that their response is have the state just change your license. Never gonna buy a gun from these ass clowns again. I hope their beef jerky and root beer candy sales are going well, because they suck at everything else.
So I live about 120 miles from a Bass Pro. I shop there now and then. Usually pop in when I find myself passing by on the way to something else. Last time was in May 2024. While I was there, they had a sale price on a handgun I had been eyeing, I had some points built up on my membership credit card, bought the gun and walked out with no problems.
Flash forward to December, and I am looking for a magnum research 22lr switchbolt for a new steel challenge boomer. A bit hard to come by and sportsman’s warehouse and bass pro are the closest options without doing an internet sale and paying at least 15% in shipping and transfer fees. Their prices are the same but I have some more points to spend so I buy it on bass pro and opt for ship to store delivery.
I go to pick it up and they tell me they can’t sell me a gun because my state issued drivers license lists my address with the abbreviation. “SR” and doesn’t spell out “State Route” like their computer wants it to. I show them 3 other forms of ID with “SR”. They look up and admit their own retail order system uses “SR”. They say, “sorry, come back with something that says “State Route””. I say “WTF, the deed to my house abbreviates the address SR. There is nothing I have that spells it out. You sold me a gun 7 months ago in this store.” After 45 minutes of listening to them tell me I should have Pennsylvania reissue my license and come back, I left. I spent another 45 mins on the phone with their customer service only to finally get to the store manager who is like “come back. We can try again later in the week”. To which I responded, “this is a 5 hour round trip. My license matches the address on my order form. I have never had any trouble buying dozens of guns elsewhere and I am not driving down here again to give it another try”. He even admitted that they have this issue more than once a week.
Flipping crazy that their response is have the state just change your license. Never gonna buy a gun from these ass clowns again. I hope their beef jerky and root beer candy sales are going well, because they suck at everything else.
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