Man, I feel like Ralphie in the Christmas Story movie running to the mailbox everynight for my ovaltine secret decoder ring. Only I am waiting for the BassPro spring classic sale paper. Has anyone gotten theirs? I need time to make my list and check it twice and there is only a week left. :o
I got mine yesterday, there are some great deals as usual. I usally take advantage of the reel trade in sale every year, it helps make them more affordable.
So tonight might be the night! ;D I can sit and watch the classic coverage and make my list. I was a fool earlier this year and bought three reels there and totally forgot about the real trade in deal. Could have saved $60 :-\'.
Got mine yesterday... the thing that sucks about being single and getting whatever you want when you want is this...
I looked at that sale catalog and the only thing I could do or say is...
Got it... got it... don't need it... got it... got it... got it... got two... that thing was a waste of money... don't need it... got it... got it... whoa... oh wait... got it... what the!!! ...
don't need it... and then it was over...
I'll still be there... hope to see some of ya!
Joshimoto son ;D
Check the web site, they had some deals that were not available in the store. I bought a few $90 catalyst spinning reels for $60.
-Matt
I'll get to that maybe on Monday... taking off right nowy and heading to HOOTERS!!!
How does the Reel trade in work????
I am going to the BPS Spring Fishing Classic on the evening of March 10. That is when Moonlight Madness is. It runs from 1700 to 2300 hours (5pm to 11pm). That is when the store has hourly deals and usually the best sales for the weekend are that evening. I went there last year and bought about $700 worth of stuff for about $300. That is the night to go. Hope to see you all there.
BD ;D
Quote from: kgr624 on February 24, 2006, 03:42:18 PM
How does the Reel trade in work????
You bring in a functional reel to donate, and you get a coupon worth x amount of dollars off a new reel purchase. The more expensive the reel, the more money you save.
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World Spring Fishing Classic
March 4 -12
First and foremost.....VENDOR BOOTH'S are BACK!!!! We have 25 plus MFG. vendors and about 30 other booth's.
Lucky Craft
Plano
Cannon Down Riggers
Minn Kota
Humminbird
Lowrance
Shimano (2) Booth's
Aqua-Vu
Pure Fishing (2) Booth's
All Star
Northland
Pradco
Gamma
Lindy
Mustad
Daiwa (2) Booth's
Snack Daddy
Pursuit
Musky Innovations
Mepps
Twister
Drift Control
Normark
Shakespeare
Pflueger
P-Line
Zebco
Magna Dyne
Drifter Tackle
Old Bayside
and a few more that escape me as of now.
Boy Scouts of America Trout Pond
National Bass Anglers Association
Michigan Ontario Musky Association
Great Lakes Fly Fishing LLC
Dea-Lynn Charters
Drifter 2 Charters
Riverside Charters
Rampage Charters
Chartertalk
Bushwackers Charters
Farmland Pheasant Hunters
Sporting Lands Alliance
Ducks Unlimited
Oakland County Bass Anglers
a couple Canadian Outfitters
A few more Conservation groups
Detroit Steelheaders
Antique Lure collectors/ Display
Country Smokehouse
Richmond Meat Packers
and many other groups
Seminars:
We have a different twist to them this year, we are having Bass, Musky and Walleye Discussion Panels. We plan to have anywhere from 3 - 5 top notch guy's field questions from the crowd. Stop by and check it out, it will be different.
Gary Parsons
Chase Parsons
Gre Bohn
Pete Maina
Bill McElroy
"Mini" John
Todd Glover
Enzo Cerqua
Semianr topics:
Trolling for Musky
Soft Plastic's for Bass
Casting For Musky
Trolling for Walleye
Sight Fishing For Bass
Introducing a child to fishing
Everything Musky
Tips & Techniques for Panfish
Tactics for Walleye
2006 Walleye Tips
Steelhead fishing in Michigan
Manistee Browns, Kings and Steelhead
Lake St. Clair Musky
What's New With National Bass Anglers Association
Spring time Manistee River Steelhead
Tank Demo's all day each weekend.
MARCH 9TH THURSDAY FROM 4:00PM - 8:OOPM N.B.A.A. & BASS PRO SHOPS SPEED CASTING CONTEST
Lot's of exciting things going on and if I'm not mistaken......There is a huge SALE happening during the Classic.
Doug Phillips
Promotions Manager
Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World @ Great Lakes Crossing Mall
Doug Phillips, isn't that the guy whose wife use to run the Federation Classic Series?
Yes - he's promotions manager or similar at BPS Auburn Hills now
I can't go on moonlight madness night. That's the day I'll be working with Oby Wayne in Lansing.
I think I'll go this Saturday AM.
Trouble is, I have a wife, and she just doesn't agree that I need quite a bit of that stuff in the sales catalog.
Any body going to the early sale this Friday night? The wife and I are going.
I'll be there sometime...
Joshimoto son ;D
I'm going tonight. Otherwise the cheaper stuff is already picked over pretty good by late Saturday morning.
so for those that have made it to BPS already, how was the opening weekend of the sale, what deals did you get ???
got there at 8:50 sat morning.. they were already open.. got a bunch of ZOOM flukes on sale. some BPS line, Stike King baits.. i turned in a reel and got the discount coupon so i had to buy a new Symetre reel.. was out of there at 9:45 and the people were streaming in... lots of guys buying salmon stuff..
now all i need is some new rods and open water..
ss
I got in on Friday night(for preferred members only ::)). They had drawings for free stuff every half hour and I won a pair of waders. Maybe I should keep them in the boat this spring for fishing Saginaw Bay - instead of beaching the boat like last year I can anchor and do some flats fishing ;D.
Anyways, I got stocked up on XPS Flouro line and some Seagur Flouro w/ a free spool of invisX, some Stren super braid(never tried it before).
Stocked up on Gammy hooks, Zoom brush hogs, super chunks, horny toads etc. Bitsy bugs, swimmin' jigs, a couple of clearanced St Croix rods to match the Curados I bought earlier this year. All-in-all I stuck to my list from the sale paper. Nothing else really stood out. Not the big clearance savings that there usually is.
I didn't really see any great deals either. In the past there were always a few things you just couldn't pass up. The xps flouro line was the best deal I saw, don't know if they had any out but on the website they now have bulk spools of xps flouro. Couldn't find any of the new lucky craft jerkbaits for $10.99, anyone see them? I'll go back this week hopefully they'll put out some new stuff.
-Matt
I did the reel trade in thingy and picked up a new baitcaster. I got the Johnny Morris that is on sale. I like it a lot. :)
Part of why I went is that here are some things that you just can't picture or feel in the cataloge. I wanted to see what their extreme rod felt like in a 7' medium and a 7'medium heavy.
They didn't have them. I thought it was very weird that a rod that's on sale was so low in stock. I was there at 9AM. I asked the girl at the counter if they had any more.
No, but they might have more at the warehouse, and if they do, they'd be glad to ship me one for a fee.
But, frankly I'd already driven an hour and a half, and I wasn't going to pay them to ship me something that I thought they sould have had there already.
So... although it was a good price on a rod, I came away empty handed.
:'(
Typical BPS stuff - they never seem to have enough stock of what is popular - I went looking for a pro qualifier flipping stick - I got a flier in the mail that is was onsale for $79 from a price of $119. They also did not have any on the shelf, and said its not on sale for the classic week - that flier was a catalog/internet only deal - how smart is that? Send me a preferred customer card to get into the store Fri night for this big sale, and certain rods are only on sale where you have to pay $7 shipping and $7 ovesize to get it, and you can't even test it out?
seemed like it was all the last years leftover stock on sale only - notice the poor supply of raingear on sale, except for the new pro qualifier and 100 mph stuff for $350 plus? nice going guys -
Jack
they do a lot of boarder line "bait and switch" stuff. I f you watch they switch up the standard high price combos with cheap reels for special events or are out of stock. If you press them on it they will give you a rain check (never call you when your stuff come in).
Typical story line is "flyer was printed wrong". I have heard that a number of times.
The best deal I found wasn't advertised and you had to look in a plain old brown cardboard box to find it...In front of the fish tank, on a shelf in the middle of the isle were 2 or 3 unmarked boxes filled with an assortment of Daiwa Crankbaits and topwaters. Normally 15.99 to 17.99, they were priced 5.99. I picked up a few of the titanium-lipped medium and deep divers.
Well thanks for everybody that stopped by and said HI at BPS, I had a good time talking with everyone...although selling was slow, at least for our Fish Hedz. I think the trick with those is to get people to try them on the water, I'll always have a few extras in my boat for people to try throughout the season, so if you see me somewhere don't be afraid to ask.
Sure is nice to put names with faces...
I'm not trying to slam BPS because I love going there. It's my Mecca. However, you guys are right. They never have enough stock of what's on sale. I doubt it's rocket science to try to figure out how much stock you're gonna need in order to keep product on the shelves during a sale. It's absolutely maddening. The last few times I've been there looking for stuff I left ticked off. I have to drive an hour to get there, so I expect to see what they have advertised on their shelves. All I can figure is POOR MANAGEMENT. Grr. I had a list of 8 items that I needed during the sale. They were out of 5 of them. The end result is that I didn't buy anything but rain gear during the sale. I'll end up buying most of the items I wanted from somewhere else online.
COME ON BPS. Get it together. You're losing money and you don't even know it. I think it's time for people to really start complaining or it'll never change.
Sorry if I'm ranting guys. It really ticks me off though to waste my time and gas money so often. >:(
Poorboy and I we were set up at the end of one of the aisles over by the GPS counter at the BPS spring classic, we had lots of people asking wheres this or that and found that they were out of the products. I saw tons of empty spots on the shelves...not what you would expect. Poorboy actually made a sale for them that BPS would have lost if it wasn't for him, a guy came up to us looking for a certain small battery charger, the rep for the chargers and batteries evidently told him that BPS doesn't carry what he was looking for, out of frustration he asked us I guess and as it turns out Poorboy has the model in question, he took the guy too it and the customer bought it..we had a lot of that happen, I sold a bunch of oil and underwater cameras for them...at least they fed us.. :-\'
Funny Revtro- Savage and I refer to BPS as Mecca as well.... :D
You have to think of it like this. Spring time is the biggest season for fisherman. Thats when we are all gearing up for the season. Im not talking just in michigan, im talking in 60% of the country or better. Now take into account all the tackle shops, big and small throught the country. They are all stocking a lot of the same stuff. I think a lot of it has to do with how the mfgrs supply all the stores. they can only make so much at a time and then it all ships out.
On top of that, there are guys who literally spend thousands on lures. I have seen guys buyout entire colors of certain baits. Even Lucky Crafts. At last years show, i seen a guy with 10 or more of at least 7 different color LC Pointers. I happen to pass him on my way to the LC isle. They were all out of what i wanted. Couldnt help but laugh.
Plus, alot of the stuff they have on sale is actually old inventory that they are clearing out. For example, they had Arbogast Hula Poppers and Jitterbugs on sale for $1.99. Those things went faster than a box of twinkies at a weight watchers meeting.
I will agree that it sucks. but if you do look hard, you can usually find some stuff that will replace the exact thing you were looking for. They had some realy good deals on some good stuff. I got a few of the new BPS Tungsten spinnerbaits for $3.00 off. I was playing with them last night. Very nice. ANd they have the best interchangable blade system i have seen yet.
The good news is Cabelas is having there Spring Fishing Sale this coming weekend. I know its kind of a hike for most of you guys, but it might be worth the trip if you can find some stuff you actually want.
PoorBoy himself :-\'