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scsavre

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MuskieJunkie Mentor

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Only thing I love about gander that they sometime had a " stupid" cashier. They once charged me 30 dollars for Beckmann net when it's retail 100!

That does happen and they are notorious for miss marking prices.

A good rule of thumb on those transactions is to try as hard to give the money back as you would to get the money back.

What if that cashier had accidentally charged you $170?

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brad coin Community Regular

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I think we are very lucky to have a state of the art muskie pro shop here,,,theres not many in the world,,Thornes, Reeds up north and the rest far into Wisc. I too live south but will always make the drive to Thornes they support the Minnesota muskie world big time with donations and at cost deals to Muskies inc chapters theres more muskies swimming in Tonka and White bear because of the deals they have givin the TC chapter for merchandise to be raffled for our rearing fund. 10% discount on baits for MI members goes a long way if you load up on cowgirls and pounders,,,Id hate to have to rely on a franchise store for muskie tackle,,

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B Newt Newbie

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Have you tried Joes Sporting goods? They have a great selection of Musky gear all the popular rods, reels, baits. Plus there staff and customer service are top notch! They are the only place in the metro I have found to do an instore exchange on a broken StCroix rod.

Give them a try!

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SScarve... Ideal place to open up your own muskie shop would probably be a stone throw from your home on 98th and Lyndale where there used to be a Burgers' Brothers store... (Yeah Gander Mtn took over that location later in the late 90's before they closed that location down) As far as I know its vacant... so if you're serious... check that out!!! I know as every time I drive by that location, I cant help but drool about it, day-dreaming about owning the perfect Muskie Shop anywhere possible...

As for shopping... Aaron at Muskie Tackle Online gets my #1 vote... He tries his hardest, which is usually more than 110%... has excellent customer rapport... and nope Im not getting paid to say this!!! LOL

But in a pinch, if I needed something ASAP like within a hour, I'd stop at FF if Im heading south... TB if Im heading north...

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Get Rollie and Helen's catalog and forget store shopping if you know what you want. I like how they operate, they'll take the cordless phone up and down the aisles for ya if something is sold out or something and hook you up with a lure of equal value or whatever, they've treated me right for many many years.

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Scott and Dudeness-

I've known you each too long to think that either of you deserve any type of friendly customer service....anywhere. May I remind you of FF many years back and the "inter-changeable" dilemma. I won't bring up anymore of those halarious memories, but you know what I'm talking about. Karma!

Seriosly though, I'm with everyone else who says that the online avenues are the way to go. TB and GM are terrible. Yeah, TB might have a great selection but the attitudes on many of those guys is bad enough to make me never want to drop another dime in that place.

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I regularly visit TB but when I first started going there I did get a bit of the "record store elitist" vibe from some, but definately not all, of the staff so I can see that perception being out there.

However, with that being said, I have never had a problem that they have not gone the extra mile to fix and I have always left 100% satisfied with my purchases and experience. Heck the other night we had a lot of great help trying to find a certain color of a bait which was not on the racks but was in one of the numerous boxes that had just come back from a sportshow. They really went the extra mile to help us find what we were looking for.

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rebel, I am just a stone throw from there (lyndale -106th), and do remember that old Burger Bros, the FF is where i go, now.

DOHKAY, you are right, I dont deserve good service, I cant believe i am even a loud in these stores. Since you know us, I am guessing you are no better. Dudeness did have that inter-changeable problem too.

I dont know what it is about TB. I have mentioned my problems already. They do have a few very friendly guys in there as well though. There has just been so many times where i have just sat there and listened to them interact with one guy and then the next. I have seem them pry spots out of guys, give them to the next guy as their own, and then talk down to the next guy.

I played dumb with one of them one time. When i heard him doing this. The lake they were talking about happened to be my own. After a guy told him about his good luck there. He gave me directions to my lake that were about 60 miles the opposite way. But he said he had been there so many times, and had hammered the crappies the weekend before.

Just annoyed with them I guess.

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TB does have knowledgeable and helpful guys there, but I have had similar negative experiences as explained above.

Scott- you could say that I'm not to proud of some things I've done in the past. But like you and Dudeness, I'm a pretty good guy these days. However I believe we have to put in a few more years of good behavior to make up for those adolescent years of dip-s***ness.

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