I understand Sportsman’s and Sitka having a policy about returns without a receipt.
Other than the honor system though, I wonder how Sitka would ever know if a particular store made an exchange on something like a hat.
Once the product leaves Sitka and I s put into inventory and on the floor of the retail store, how does Sitka know that Sportsman’s is making an exchange?
I have seen where some manufacturers enable customers to view where they can buy a product at a retailer, and the website will allow the customer to see they product’s availability at the store, so maybe that’s what‘s happening here.
Otherwise, how does Sitka know that a retailer allows an exchange without a receipt? The store accounts for, and makes their own adjustments to inventory.
Again, I understand that a retailer can have an agreement with a manufacturer, and obviously - as others have posted - Sportsman’s is trying to prevent customer’s from buying somewhere else or at discount then using their stores to make exchanges.
Regardless, I wouldn’t call Sitka’s customer service substandard.
Other than the honor system though, I wonder how Sitka would ever know if a particular store made an exchange on something like a hat.
Once the product leaves Sitka and I s put into inventory and on the floor of the retail store, how does Sitka know that Sportsman’s is making an exchange?
I have seen where some manufacturers enable customers to view where they can buy a product at a retailer, and the website will allow the customer to see they product’s availability at the store, so maybe that’s what‘s happening here.
Otherwise, how does Sitka know that a retailer allows an exchange without a receipt? The store accounts for, and makes their own adjustments to inventory.
Again, I understand that a retailer can have an agreement with a manufacturer, and obviously - as others have posted - Sportsman’s is trying to prevent customer’s from buying somewhere else or at discount then using their stores to make exchanges.
Regardless, I wouldn’t call Sitka’s customer service substandard.
I’ve been killing elk and deer since I was 12 that’s easy. If I’m elk hunting and the weather is bad or I am tired or it’s just too nasty or dark I can turn around anytime I want. If you’re hound hunting and you care about your dogs you have to go anywhere the cat or bear goes. Try going into Hells canyon at 2:30 in the morning in a blizzard to get your dogs off a lion tree. You can’t shoot the lion you just want to get your dogs back safe. After you have been chasing them from mid morning when you let go on the track. Scared to death for them because there is a pack of wolves hot on there tail. Sometimes hound hunting can be easy but the hardest hunts I have ever been on have been chasing dogs. I successfully did the Montana unlimited sheep hunt solo and thought I might die getting the sheep that fell off a cliff that wasn’t as bad as the worst hound hunt I have had. You need to go on one before you judge it. Multiple hunts because you’re probably the guy the first time he goes the cat or bear will tree next to a road lol . Last weekend I was snowshoeing in 3 ft of snow but keep telling yourself only you really hunt 
I thought we were discussing Sitka?? I don’t like the idea of hunting over a deer feeder but I will never tell someone it’s not hunting and I will support there ability to do so where legal. You’re the kind of hunter that will eventually screw us all. We’re either together as hunters or we’re definitively screwed. Self important hunters who only approve of how they hunt is how they slowly take away hunting. The traditional bow guys think the compound guys are cheating. The archery guys think you shouldn’t rifle hunt during the rut. The guys who can’t shoot past 150 yards think the long range guys aren’t really hunting. Self important jack wagons like you allow the anti hunters to kill our sport one method at a time.keep telling yourself only you are actually hunting 
