redneckmedic
Grandmaster
Maybe we should all print it off and just drop it off next time we drive by Post Rd. Of course only if we had the balls to
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Maybe we should all print it off and just drop it off next time we drive by Post Rd. Of course only if we had the balls to
I don't have any real beef with Popguns but there have been times when I've been in there and received an attitude from certain staff members. However, I have heard a lot of bad stories and I'm starting to wonder where this "Change at Popguns" is?? I'm not seeing it in this thread. People are offering feedback or even complaints and they are getting told how they are in the wrong!
Maybe we should all print it off and just drop it off next time we drive by Post Rd. Of course only if we had the balls to
Oh, but first one of the folks behind the counter would have to lift their jowls from the cheeseburger to take the printed thread from us with their greasy fingers! No??
("IT staff." Hmmpphh! Inarticulate ramblings is more like it. Oh, I'm done there. NOW, I'm done. Absolutely unbelievable.)
I'll keep my opinion of Pop Guns to myself... it's been a while since I've been in there.
The complaints of price gouging are annoying to me. Whatever happened to capitalism?
I'll still shop for the lower price, but more power to the retailer with the highest margins.
The complaints of price gouging are annoying to me. Whatever happened to capitalism?
I'll still shop for the lower price, but more power to the retailer with the highest margins.
ar15junkie
Sharpshooter
I've never been to popguns. After reading this message from their management I'll make sure to avoid the place.
I agree, what Pops did was not price gouging, supply and demand and all that.
What they did do is alienate savy gun buyers. Which has a HUGE negative effect on their future business. I also lump morons who run their business this way in with idiot politicians who only look at the now and not the future.
No time to do spell check?
Looks to me like all you have been doing on this thread is cut and paste from your OP. Not taking a couple minutes to use spell check does not leave a good impression. I doubt you are talking for the owners as being a past small business owner myself I doubt anyone would allow someone to represent them in the manner you have today. I am a range member at Pops and have on occasion experienced rude behavior from people behind the counter when I come in to shoot. I have also dealt with some very nice people but it only takes one negative incident to leave a bad taste. You sir do nothing to improve PopGuns image.
I am also a FFL so I am well aware of your pricing policy. You are competing with places on line like Buds and Gunbroker who do not have to charge the 7% IN sales tax you and I do; if you don't wake up and smell the coffee you will be selling donuts instead of firearms. People are not stupid when it comes to pricing with all the information available to them on the internet.
Looks to me like all you have been doing on this thread is cut and paste from your OP. Not taking a couple minutes to use spell check does not leave a good impression. I doubt you are talking for the owners as being a past small business owner myself I doubt anyone would allow someone to represent them in the manner you have today. I am a range member at Pops and have on occasion experienced rude behavior from people behind the counter when I come in to shoot. I have also dealt with some very nice people but it only takes one negative incident to leave a bad taste. You sir do nothing to improve PopGuns image.
I am also a FFL so I am well aware of your pricing policy. You are competing with places on line like Buds and Gunbroker who do not have to charge the 7% IN sales tax you and I do; if you don't wake up and smell the coffee you will be selling donuts instead of firearms. People are not stupid when it comes to pricing with all the information available to them on the internet.
I had never heard of Popguns prior to this thread. This guy has single-handedly convinced me never to go there.
redneckmedic
Grandmaster
I disliked Popguns before it was cool! 
I've been following this thread, just for entertainment more than anything I guess, but the above makes me wonder, did they ask to you post here, or are you posting 'for' them on the clock without them knowing it? I'm confused...
IndyBeerman
Was a real life Beerman.....
Sorry to chime in here, but when has it become standard practice of a "Employee" of a business that's job is "Part of the I.T. Staff" to be a mouth piece for a business?? You are a employee, you speak as if you are in direct control, or have some control of the actions that take place there. I take this as the proverbial grain of salt, your words are exactly that, words, anything else is hearsay.
Now as far as the reputation of Pop Guns, my father who passed away in 2000 was at one time a customer of the business, and a very great customer of the range. He frequently recieved abusive treatment from people in the shop and stopped visiting.
He would go to Bradis, PSS at the drop of a hat, but because of what happened he never returned.
Oh, did I mention how close he lived to Pop's, 1 MILE. When a person drives 45 minutes to another shop because of price and customer service, you know there is a problem.
I have been there twice, and will never go back and live with the words of my father in my head about them. "I'd never go back there if it was the last place left on earth to buy from." Pretty strong words from a man that had amassed a mighty collection of firearms and ammunition.
Maybe we should all print it off and just drop it off next time we drive by Post Rd. Of course only if we had the balls to
Apparently people that are, shall we say, "sans testicles" need not apply.
Driving out the ladies too, man they must have more business than they can poke a stick at.......
if a box of ammo costs $10 and every other shop sells it for say $15, but your shop sells it for $30 or more, is that not gouging the customer?
i agree that they can charge whatever they want; i certainly am under no obligation to pay it. i am just trying to figure out at what point the profit margin has to reach before you consider it price gouging? do you consider Don's to engage in gouging? $2600 for a Colt 6920 last time i was in there....
just askin, not trying to start a fight.
My point exactly. I am in no way discouraging Capitalism, or their right to charge anything they want to. However, I also reserve the right to call them out on business practices, that dissuade me, as a consumer, from shopping there.
LP said it way better than I could.
bowhunter_1978
Expert
Maybe with the prices, the sales you lose are negated by the mark up and that is how you pay the bills.
So now its ladies and gentlemen??? A few posts back we were told to more or less "grow some balls", and now you want to be polite?
Good luck with that!!
theweakerbrother
Grandmaster
I was there at Pop Guns righter after the Clinton AWB expired. I was shocked at the prices as well as the lack of attention we received in the store. I took a trip up there with an LEO and a good friend. We all attributed it to post-AWB panic. We returned much later and prices were higher than ever. Customer service/attention was just as lousy. I complained to staff and I did it in person. I didn't make a big deal out of it but we did everything but scream to get the attention of a 40-something stocky dude behind the counter with dark hair and a moustache. I took my roll of cash to Bradis and they've earned my business nearly every handgun purchase I've ever made.
No reason to go back a third time. Bradis and other LGS fill the role where Pop's has dropped the ball. Even if they don't really remember me at Bradis, at least they pretend to remember me.
No reason to go back a third time. Bradis and other LGS fill the role where Pop's has dropped the ball. Even if they don't really remember me at Bradis, at least they pretend to remember me.
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Eprobertson1
Sharpshooter
Guy's, I have been reading this thread and have come to the conclusion that chating with gruemeyer is like floging a dead horse.
As far as this thread is concerned - It will hurt less if you
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I help a friend out at his gun shop here in Indy and the first word out his mouth is CUSTOMER SERVICE. I know that's two words. But I know a lot of guys that work at various gunshops around central Indiana and they all push Customer Service along with reasonable pricing.
I have found that a shop can grow by word of mouth or they can die by word of mouth.
As far as this thread is concerned - It will hurt less if you
.I help a friend out at his gun shop here in Indy and the first word out his mouth is CUSTOMER SERVICE. I know that's two words. But I know a lot of guys that work at various gunshops around central Indiana and they all push Customer Service along with reasonable pricing.
I have found that a shop can grow by word of mouth or they can die by word of mouth.
Guy's, I have been reading this thread and have come to the conclusion that chating with gruemeyer is like floging a dead horse.
As far as this thread is concerned - It will hurt less if you
I help a friend out at his gun shop here in Indy and the first word out his mouth is CUSTOMER SERVICE. I know that's two words. But I know a lot of guys that work at various gunshops around central Indiana and they all push Customer Service along with reasonable pricing.
I have found that a shop can grow by word of mouth or they can die by word of mouth.
Case in point, the "Don's Guns Empire" ain't what it used to be...
