Decided that I needed to burn some club points on a Glock 40 MOS. Did a search of store inventories and found them in stock an hour and a half away.
Arrived at the store and was the only customer at the gun counter. Seemed unnecessary but pulled a number off the dispenser. Waited ten minutes before a mid-twenties lump of goo put his phone down and acknowledged my presence. Told him I wanted a Glock 40. He opened the case and retrieved a 20 saying that it's the only 10mm they have. I told him that it shows 40s in stock on the website and asked him to check the back room. He just stood there and said a bit louder "WE DON'T HAVE ANY!" then walked away and went back to diddling his phone.
I was Fing steaming!
Started walking to the front door but decided to go back try again with a different person. Luckily, the department supervisor called my new number. I told him that the large young man wouldn't check the back room for a Glock 40 that is shown in stock online. He spun around, went into the storage room and returned with the gun within thirty seconds.
As I was completing paperwork and checking out, sales slug #1 was told twice by the supervisor to get off his phone while customers were waiting.
Your a lot nicer than me. One of the many reasons I don’t so Cabela’s or Walmart or any of the big chain retail stores anymore. Usually it’s ole Shanika with the fake rainbow colored dreadlocks and fake 4” fingernails. And AssPro has totally ruined Cabela’s.😡
I’d much rather pay a little extra and have my LGS order a gun for me. Or if they can’t order it, I’ll buy online and have it shipped there and pay their transfer fee. Much easier on the Blood Pressure. 😬
I stopped going to what I called my Favorite Gun Shop Turners Outdoorsman Here in Commyfornia.
At one time I was on their Best Customer list because of what and how much I purchased from that Corp.
They had a short Memory and Delayed me getting a Custom Order Rifle that I had Built for myself.
They delayed my delivery by 2 months because they finally admitted that they did not want to Dros the rifle so that they could have it delivered into their store for me to receive it.
After they admitted what they were doing I found a Police Sting Pawn shop that Dros'd the rifle and I had it right away.
As a Thank You I gave them the Turnbull Table Book that came with the Rifle.
Big Corporations can find all kinds of ways to screw their Customers and it Sucks because they are in a position to be very beneficial to their Customers instead of rip off artists.
The shop I use is a small one owned by a friend and his wife. His employees are his brother and his son’s brother in law. Been in business since 1973.
Started buying guns there when I was 13 when it was owned by a local cop and his wife. Grew up and went to school with his daughter. The current owner and I are good friends and have hunted together quite a bit. Good honest folks like them you can trust, with great employees are hard to find nowadays. But fortunately there are still a few out there.
Not to many small guys her in Commyfornia
They have all but been wiped out by Criminals or the Bureaucracy
I was introduced to a Black Powder guy and was getting to know him quite well.
Then some POS gang Banger robbed and killed one of his workers and the Insurance company closed him down.
a Decade latter I was in Turners Outdoorsman and started talking to one of the salesman about Black Powder.
No customers in the store at all just me and the Sales Staff.
Well that kid Salesman and my self started talking and all of the other sales people started listening to us learning from what we were talking about.
It turned out that the kid I was talking to was the Son of the Black Powder guy that I was getting to know that was shut down.
He remembered me coming in his dads shop.
We talked for maybe a half hour about Black Powder and then the New Manager of the store told everyone to get back to work and Kicked me out of the store.
I was the only Customer in the Store.
On the way home I called my girl to look up the phone # to the Corporate Office.
Before she got back to me I had (2) Salesman call me to give me the Corporate Office #.
When I got home I call the office and when they picked up the phone they said Yes MR------- What can we help you with.
I asked them how they knew my name and they told me I was on their Best Customer list and they knew all about me.
I told them what had happened in the store that night and they were not happy at all.
That Manager was moved to another store and put as a Salesman not a Manager with in a week.
I received (2) calls from the Corporate Office after that to apologize for the way I was Treated.
They told me that (3) of the Salesman that night that were listing to us talk about Black Powder had called to lit Corporate know what they witnessed that night.
Turners sold out to a bigger POS Corporation and forgot about all of their Customer Service.
They just got the Corporate Attitude like the big ones do.
And that is when they refused to service their Customers unless they could get the big bucks off of them.
They lost a lot of good customers but they were replaced by the Gang Bangers and uninformed.
I have not purchased a Firearm since my last Custom Order from Turnbull and that was when Obummer was in his first term.
I ran out of Disposable funds like so many during his occupancy.
