Goodbye Gander Mountain

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Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by wbook01 » Thu May 11, 2017 6:31 am

Gander Mountain just announced the bankruptcy liquidation of all its in-store inventory. Don't know what sorts of deals you can get online.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by jtgibso1 » Mon May 15, 2017 6:22 am

no deals online, they're not selling anything online and in store the fishing was only 15% of the already high prices. at least that's what i saw friday at the Gastonia, NC location....

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by DanD » Mon May 15, 2017 6:43 am

Same here in Waukesha, WI. I went specifically to buy some Missile Baits Ike's mini flip jigs and they had raised the price from earlier in the year, so it looks like they were offsetting the 15% off.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Lexy 123 » Wed May 24, 2017 8:49 pm

I stopped by one store by my house and found a Shimano Sahara 2500FD (4-5 year old model?) looked like an used one which was returned. They put a yellow sticker price for $79.99 with 20% discount. I was laughing on the way to get out of that store.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by johnnybass » Thu May 25, 2017 11:33 am

When these kind of things happen, they usually higher a liquidation firm to handle the sale. Whoever they are using is trying to pick up the dummy dollars first.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Big-Bass » Tue May 30, 2017 9:21 am

Looks like it's not gone totally...it will become Gander Outdoors and feature hunting, fishing, camping, and RVing...just no clothing or footwear. At least 70 stores will stay open from the latest email sent out.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Markanthony404 » Mon Jun 19, 2017 8:49 am

Gander will be missed, one of my favorite stores for finding good deals on lures. I just bought 4 curado's for $100 each at their going out of business sale.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Johnny A » Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:53 am

Big-Bass wrote:Looks like it's not gone totally...it will become Gander Outdoors and feature hunting, fishing, camping, and RVing...just no clothing or footwear. At least 70 stores will stay open from the latest email sent out.
I have read about the same.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Mang » Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:03 am

Anyone know what the % for the fishing tackle lures is now?

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Markanthony404 » Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:02 pm

Depends on where you live, here in Pa lures are 30%-40% off.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by QUAKEnSHAKE » Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:09 pm

I got the last spool of Smackdown that they had 40# and it was 30% off.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by BlaineFred » Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:13 am

Gander

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by BlaineFred » Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:23 am

Gander did business in odd ways. I recall several years ago when I was shore fishing in the Charlotte area. I broke a spinning rod, a $100 Shimano model of some kind that I don't recall exactly. I went to Gander, and they were on sale for $49. I was buying one, but when I went thru the checkout, it rang up at $19.95. Wow!

I went back and bought two more that I later sold making a few bucks.in

I opened an account with them, but they never sent me any e-mail sales announcements, or postal fliers.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Obz » Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:24 am

I always loathed gander mountain. It was really the only option in my area for hunting and fishing outerwear growing up. They would put two very similar named products on the same rack, the sign would read product gsx 89.99, when you would get to the checkout the cashier would ring you for 149.00 because it was product gsxc. On top of that the gear was always crap. I don't really think they are going out of business. I heard they are being bought out.. There will be another crappy and dishonest outdoor outlet in the same locations only with a different name.

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Re: Goodbye Gander Mountain

Post by Obz » Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:31 am

Big-Bass wrote:Looks like it's not gone totally...it will become Gander Outdoors and feature hunting, fishing, camping, and RVing...just no clothing or footwear. At least 70 stores will stay open from the latest email sent out.
Or this thanks

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