Local Bass Pro no longer selling SureFires :(

I went to my local Bass Pro yesterday to pick up a couple things and of course I always have to check out the SureFire display and it was gone!

I talked to a BP rep and he said SureFire had priced themselves out of the store and they took the display down... He pointed me to the last remaining SF light in the store, on sale just to get rid of it... A 6P for $39!

Of course I couldn't pass that up so I walked out with a bittersweet attitude of the visit... One good deal but no more locally available SureFires.

Anyone else see the same thing going on at other Bass Pros?

Caleb Wilson

Huh ... interesting. I'll have to check my local Bass Pro now...

I don't think many of us buy Surefires for MSRP anyways which is what everyone sells them for unless they're on clearance or putting them on sale.

jugg2 said:

I talked to a BP rep and he said SureFire had priced themselves out of the store and they took the display down...

Caleb Wilson

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How can you blame them? I think SF is shooting themselves in the foot.

Rich

richpalm said:

How can you blame them? I think SF is shooting themselves in the foot.

Rich

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Even as a dedicated SF fan I have to agree with you... The average consumer isn't going to pay their high prices for lights.

Caleb Wilson

they are not gonna carry them here in nashville anylonger either. and im gonna wait it out, theyve got a m4 and m6 with my name on it.

I don't own a Surefire but would it not be a good idea for someone to write or contact them, via website, and let them know.
If I have a product and it may be a good product and I decide to price my product due to quality but then I don't realize that I have over priced myself, I think the concept that Bass Pro removing that product should be good indication of their ripeoff pricing.
I found that true with another product and I contacted the manufacture. They blamed the retailer. I contacted the retailer and they in turn told me that the manufacture is to blame for the high prices.
A lot of politics and we take the brunt of it all.

OK, so I've been debating whether to post this on the CPFMP or on CPF proper and just decided to post it here since there's already a thread here.

I checked out my local Bass Pro Shop today (Grapevine, TX) because of this thread and I discovered that there is indeed a clearance on most of their Surefire lights - at least the little that they had in.
So I talked to a guy there and they said that it appears to them that they will only be carrying the E2DL, 6PX, and the G2X in the future. Bummer.
I'm not particularly interested in the new "X" lights because ... well, you can't use drop-ins and I already own a E2DL. Anyways, it's not like I buy my SFs from Bass Pro Shop.

And for those of you who are interested they had a C3 Centurion and one M3 Combatlight Incan (Could have been a M4, forgot, sorry) left in stock, they were priced at $85 and $185 respectively.

Sportsman's Warehouse and Gander Mountain both dropped Surefire last year. I was in the Tulsa Bass Pro about six months ago and the pickings were slim then and the salesman said they were thinning them out as best they could then going to close them out. Of course I couldn't get a discount at the time!
I find this rather disappointing as Surefire was just getting on the band wagon with some neat lights the the public has been wanting/asking for, for a long time, like the E2AA. But at these prices, I can't even see LEO sales carrying them through the economy we face right now.
I'm going to go cry now.

sawlight said:

Sportsman's Warehouse and Gander Mountain both dropped Surefire last year. I was in the Tulsa Bass Pro about six months ago and the pickings were slim then and the salesman said they were thinning them out as best they could then going to close them out. Of course I couldn't get a discount at the time!
I find this rather disappointing as Surefire was just getting on the band wagon with some neat lights the the public has been wanting/asking for, for a long time, like the E2AA. But at these prices, I can't even see LEO sales carrying them through the economy we face right now.
I'm going to go cry now.

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my Sportsman Warehouse is still a full line surefire dealer. and the local Gander has the 6pl g2l and saint minimus.

i guess they really don't want our (regular folks) buissnes anymore.

alpg88 said:

i guess they really don't want our (regular folks) buissnes anymore.

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I dont think thats the case, its more along the lines of Bass Pros business model which is looking more and more like Walmart, they just keep getting cheaper junk.