Reed's Sporting goods?

[Grimjack]

Add me to the list of guys that had a bad shopping experience at Reeds. That being said, I'd rather have a bad store close by than no store at all. I personally like SJGX better, but even more so Irvington Arms. Just don't like the drive.

[QuarterBoreGunner]

Well at least they were able to transfer FFL sales to the range; I hope they were able to buy the building - when we (NSC) were in there, the property owner wouldn't budge and man it sucked.
Hate to see the classic Reed's Sporting Goods die though.

[rebelmachine2000]

Sorry, came to this thread a little late. I'm actually pleased to hear that the gun dept is moving to the indoor range. Reason being that I drive a beater Toyota pickup and the day laborers always seem to think I'm some construction manager looking for workers. "Necesito dos hombres."

[///D]

Sorry, came to this thread a little late. I'm actually pleased to hear that the gun dept is moving to the indoor range. Reason being that I drive a beater Toyota pickup and the day laborers always seem to think I'm some construction manager looking for workers. "Necesito dos hombres."

Hahaha.....OSH

[Bowser]

I bought my 10/22 from there on Sunday. I bought it from the actual store on Alum Rock, not the range store. The guy with the full beard was really nice and made my gun purchasing experience an excellent one. He even joked around about OLLs and how "evil" looking they are.

[rebelmachine2000]

I bought my 10/22 from there on Sunday. I bought it from the actual store on Alum Rock, not the range store. The guy with the full beard was really nice and made my gun purchasing experience an excellent one. He even joked around about OLLs and how "evil" looking they are.

Coincidentally all my firearms purchases from Reed's were completed by that same man with the full beard and he has always been an adroit salesman. Though I understand that with the gun department as busy as it is some customers may be treated less courteously. Subsequently I have devised my own gun store technique in which I walk in and tell the first available employee "I am interested in buying a firearm today but I need to take a look at a few things." By speaking the aforementioned line I am informing the employee that I am a serious buyer and not just a window shopper regardless of whether I actually intend to buy something or not. In this way I receive the best possible treatment.

[ProtecSylt]

Subsequently I have devised my own gun store technique in which I walk in and tell the first available employee "I am interested in buying a firearm today but I need to take a look at a few things." By speaking the aforementioned line I am informing the employee that I am a serious buyer and not just a window shopper regardless of whether I actually intend to buy something or not. In this way I receive the best possible treatment.

I work part time in a gun shop (more because I like it than out of necessity) and I don't know of a single gun shop that pays there employees a commission. Frankly, I don't care if you buy a gun or not... at least not for economic reasons.
Gun shops are like every other social encounter - treat everybody nice and you will be treated nice.
Obviously if you take a look at 15 different guns, to just finally tell me that you have all these at home already, I will treat you like a moron - no matter if you buy a gun or not.
Then there is a guy that runs around and looks for the most oddball rifle we have on the used gun rack. He writes down the information and leaves for about an hour. Once he's back he lingers around the gun rack and waits for an employee to come into his vicinity. He then grabs the gun, strikes up a weird question and basically begins to lecture one on the history of that specific "75 Dollar POS shotgun knock-off from the 70s" and leaves after a 20 minute monologue. Without buying it of course.
Dude, if you read this: I don't give a flying f*** about this gun - if I would care, I would have read up on it myself.
Second. We both know you go home and look the stuff up on the internet or in books - don't play it off like you know all about it, because you're such a gun buff.
Third. Get a life. Go visit your mother... or put in some overtime at work, so you could once in a while afford to buy the crappy guns you keep telling people about.

I enjoy talking guns to people and I still take a decent amount of pride in knowing that the customer walks out with the best choice available (at least to my -limited- knowledge) and feels like he has been treated right.

Because I earn my living doing something else, I also reserve the right to walk away from any useless conversation somebody feels he needs to have with me. The next guy that starts telling me, on a very busy saturday, about every single gun he ever owned for thirty minutes (or worse keeps reciting random loading data for a German "9,3 x 75 Krauchzengruben") - just to end up with a plastic holder for his hunting license... you sir, deserve to sit thru my grandmothers medical history - told by her senile sister.

This had nothing to do with Reed's and I apologize for hijacking this thread and landing it on Cuba - in a metaphoric kind of way.

[rebelmachine2000]

I work part time in a gun shop (more because I like it than out of necessity) and I don't know of a single gun shop that pays there employees a commission. Frankly, I don't care if you buy a gun or not... at least not for economic reasons.
Gun shops are like every other social encounter - treat everybody nice and you will be treated nice.
Obviously if you take a look at 15 different guns, to just finally tell me that you have all these at home already, I will treat you like a moron - no matter if you buy a gun or not.
Then there is a guy that runs around and looks for the most oddball rifle we have on the used gun rack. He writes down the information and leaves for about an hour. Once he's back he lingers around the gun rack and waits for an employee to come into his vicinity. He then grabs the gun, strikes up a weird question and basically begins to lecture one on the history of that specific "75 Dollar POS shotgun knock-off from the 70s" and leaves after a 20 minute monologue. Without buying it of course.
Dude, if you read this: I don't give a flying f*** about this gun - if I would care, I would have read up on it myself.
Second. We both know you go home and look the stuff up on the internet or in books - don't play it off like you know all about it, because you're such a gun buff.
Third. Get a life. Go visit your mother... or put in some overtime at work, so you could once in a while afford to buy the crappy guns you keep telling people about.

I enjoy talking guns to people and I still take a decent amount of pride in knowing that the customer walks out with the best choice available (at least to my -limited- knowledge) and feels like he has been treated right.

Because I earn my living doing something else, I also reserve the right to walk away from any useless conversation somebody feels he needs to have with me. The next guy that starts telling me, on a very busy saturday, about every single gun he ever owned for thirty minutes (or worse keeps reciting random loading data for a German "9,3 x 75 Krauchzengruben") - just to end up with a plastic holder for his hunting license... you sir, deserve to sit thru my grandmothers medical history - told by her senile sister.

This had nothing to do with Reed's and I apologize for hijacking this thread and landing it on Cuba - in a metaphoric kind of way.

I agree entirely. I want employees such as yourself to know that I'm not wasting anyones time and that I am in the store to do serious business. If I have no intentions of buying a firearm shortly, not necessarily immediately, then I keep to myself.

The point here being that gun store guys like you and at Reed's get some weirdos like you described and that it is imperative to make it clear that "hey I'm just a normal guy who wants a change of scenery in his closet and to give you his money for that change."

[Steyr_223]

I work part time in a gun shop (more because I like it than out of necessity) and I don't know of a single gun shop that pays there employees a commission. Frankly, I don't care if you buy a gun or not... at least not for economic reasons.
Gun shops are like every other social encounter - treat everybody nice and you will be treated nice.
Obviously if you take a look at 15 different guns, to just finally tell me that you have all these at home already, I will treat you like a moron - no matter if you buy a gun or not.
Then there is a guy that runs around and looks for the most oddball rifle we have on the used gun rack. He writes down the information and leaves for about an hour. Once he's back he lingers around the gun rack and waits for an employee to come into his vicinity. He then grabs the gun, strikes up a weird question and basically begins to lecture one on the history of that specific "75 Dollar POS shotgun knock-off from the 70s" and leaves after a 20 minute monologue. Without buying it of course.
Dude, if you read this: I don't give a flying f*** about this gun - if I would care, I would have read up on it myself.
Second. We both know you go home and look the stuff up on the internet or in books - don't play it off like you know all about it, because you're such a gun buff.
Third. Get a life. Go visit your mother... or put in some overtime at work, so you could once in a while afford to buy the crappy guns you keep telling people about.

I enjoy talking guns to people and I still take a decent amount of pride in knowing that the customer walks out with the best choice available (at least to my -limited- knowledge) and feels like he has been treated right.

Because I earn my living doing something else, I also reserve the right to walk away from any useless conversation somebody feels he needs to have with me. The next guy that starts telling me, on a very busy saturday, about every single gun he ever owned for thirty minutes (or worse keeps reciting random loading data for a German "9,3 x 75 Krauchzengruben") - just to end up with a plastic holder for his hunting license... you sir, deserve to sit thru my grandmothers medical history - told by her senile sister.

This had nothing to do with Reed's and I apologize for hijacking this thread and landing it on Cuba - in a metaphoric kind of way.

That is the funniest thing I read today, because it's true..Thanks!

[AraiGuma]

In my opinion, all gun stores should have at least one Express Checkout Lane. I know what I need, and I know you (store owners) want to maximize your throughput. If you want to hang around and talk something all day long, fine, do it what ever you want, but not in front of me please. What do you all think?