I hate to start my rant again, but this weekend I was trying to finish up a wrap on a rod I am build. I ran out of black metalic gudebrod thread so I sent my wife down to Cabela's to get me some against my better judgement. Cabela's is the only place I know that I can go in and buy the stuff without ordering.
The last roll I had I got from Wild River. It was great stuff. I don't think I ran into a bad spot the whole roll. This roll I bought from Cabela's had a bad spot about every two feet. I spent all of Saturday night and part of Sunday afternoon (about 8 hours) trying to do what normally takes me about 30 minutes. When I run into problem like this, I look at it like this. I take lost time and multply by my hourly rate. Let's just say I only make $10 per hour. That's $80 I've wasted on a $3 roll of thread. Not to mention my wife's tiem to go down and get the stuff. When you take my actually hourly rate... that would buy a nice rod. I wouldn't be so angry except that this isn't the first roll of thread I've gotten like this from Cabela's. Luckily, on my last rod I bought two rolls of the same stuff. One was bad and one was good. I lucked out. If any of you guys from Cabela's are listening, here is a thought. When a guy has more time that money, he doesn't have much to spend in your store. When I guy has more money than time, he is willing to spend. In fact, in a store like yours, it's easy to go overboard. If you've got more money than time, you'd just as soon get it all in one shot so you don't have to come back, even if you might not need it. It has been made abundently clear to me that I can't count on a quality product every time. Over the last year I have gone from buying a lot of merchandise from Cabela's to buying mostly elsewhere to buying there in a pinch to not buying at all no matter what the cost. Just my two cents. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
