Or should I say a recent Bass Pro Shop ran Cabelas experience...
There is a house brand Cabelas Scope I have been thinking about getting..
it is their Convenant 7 Series, in a 3 x 21 power range, 50 mm objective, 34 mm tube...
I know some folks in the scope snob crowd would chuckle over a Cabelas scope, but having
several of these, they are more than enough scope to withstand the recoil of the cartridges I would
shoot out of the guns they would be mounted on... mainly chambered in 223, or 22.250 or 243...maybe 260 Rem..
Scope is normally $350.00 and its on sale for $250.00 so I made a nice leisurely trip 150 miles up I 5 to Eugene
to pick one up....escorted to the front register by one of their Optics Dept Employees.. stating security reasons..
Uhhhh. okay... sure...
Get to the register, show my I.D. if a military discount is offered....the zit faced millennial tells me "thank you for your service".
scans the scope.... and then asks... would you like to buy a 3 year protection plan for $89.95?"
Wait a minute young man.... sez right on the box... lifetime warranty.... why would I need a 3 year "service protection plan" for $90 on a scope with a lifetime warranty? I don't know sir, I'm just reading the computer screen...
Maybe I need to take this over to your customer service desk then and they can tell me over there, why your computer screen is trying to scam me out of $90.00...... Go over to customer service... middle aged gal, tells me, she has no idea why he asked me that question..... she scans it and gets the same message to ask the customer about a $90 three year warranty on it....
she says that makes no sense... it says lifetime warranty right here on the box... so she calls up some management type from the optics dept....
He comes up and tells us both, that Bass Pro made a policy change two weeks ago.... NOW ALL optics come with a 90 warranty, with a receipt... after that, there is no warranty... regardless of what the box says on the side....the customer's one option is the adittional 3 year warranty starting at $90 and going up as the price of the scope increases....Why would me or anyone want to buy a scope that has NO Warranty as soon as you leave the store?? I couldn't tel you sir, all I can tell you is its Bass Pro Shops policies now on all scopes...Do you want it or not? " let me think about it..."
Go outside and dial Cabelas 800 customer service number.. nice lady tells me this is Bass Pro's New Policy on ALL Cabelas products.. you have to purchase a warranty and 3 years is the life of the warranty, regardless of circumstances... ALL Cabelas products someone may have purchased before that time, that had a warranty, lifetime or less.. is NOW NULL & VOID....
Like my Alaskan Guide Tent for instance....plus the other Cabelas scopes I have purchased that have life time warranties...
any Name brand manufacturer for scopes, like Leupold Burris etc, come with NO warranty thru Cabelas or Bass Pro either, was what I was told.... you can purchase a 3 year warranty via Bass Pro, or you walk out the store with it, the warranty is between you and the manufacturer....
Bass Pro is not honoring ANY warranty on any products Cabelas had sold.... if not bought within the last 90 days, it has NO Warranty.....
Thought I'd share this with the campfire... needless to say, I didn't take the item home...now everything i have from them, bought in good faith, if it needs any repair, tough luck on you.....Instantly lost me as a customer.....
I've never bought anything from Bass Pro, as there are none around here..... closest one would be down in California...
but in my travels, I have been thru their stores... nothing much impressed me with the products they had on the shelves available, especially their house brand stuff....can see why they are trying to peddle an expense "warranty" for three years... kinda like who buys a scope to use for just 3 deer seasons?......
Locally I bet this is going to help Sportsman's Warehouse sales big time....we've got quite a few of those here up and down I 5 and over on the east side of the Cascades....
