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    New River Sports

    3.5 (2 reviews)

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    8 years ago

    Condescending, indifferent and unhelpful. Sure was enjoying his apple, though. I won't be back.

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    DICK'S Sporting Goods

    DICK'S Sporting Goods

    2.9(7 reviews)
    23.2 mi
    $$

    Went to the Christiansburg location to buy an in-stock bike. I was told they could not sell it to…read moreme in the box. I explained I was from out of town. Didn't matter. I explained that my wife bought a bike in the box in the Roanoke store the previous week. Didn't matter. It's listed in stock and available for pick up. Didn't matter. It's right there. Didn't matter. Is this the policy because Roanoke did it. Not a policy... it's our "preference". Great, please sell me the bike. Didn't matter. Manager intimated that I wasn't being "professional" (not cursing or yelling on my part... just flabbergasted that it's this hard to hand Dicks money), and threw his staff under the bus -"I thought my employee could handle this" (I wasn't looking to be "handled" just wanted to buy a bike). He also said " I was going to offer you a discount". I explained I do not want a discount... I just want the bike so I can go riding with my wife this weekend. Didn't matter. I asked if it could be transferred to Roanoke in the box. He said that if Roanoke "wanted to get in trouble they could" and announced he had to go pick up his brother. Told him to drive safely. OK, is there another manager? 2nd manager refused to sell me the bike. Can you transfer to Roanoke? 2nd Manager (Ryan... although I don't believe this is how he spells it) said he would if it was OK with the Roanoke manager and even offered to drive it down in his personal vehicle after his shift (well done Ryan). Didn't matter because the manager in Roanoke would only do this if I picked it up at closing time. Can't I pick it up tomorrow? Only if it's "9AM sharp". But I'm out of town. Didn't matter. Roanoke manager "didn't want it on their floor". So I have to pick it up by appointment at your convenience rather than tomorrow afternoon? Didn't matter. What gives? Obviously not a liability thing- they were happy to sell me the bike in the box as long as I was willing to wait a day, go to a different city, and show up precisely when they preferred (when I was out of town). As they had told me the regional manager was coming into town and the communication seemed to oddly revolve around winning rather than selling me the bike I told the 2nd manager to give my number to the regional manager and that we could either work the issue out (wherein I simply hand someone a credit card and receive a bike) or I would just return the items purchased last week (incl. helmet, gloves, chain, vehicle rack, etc ). If I could have returned the first bike I would have (although it wasn't ridden it had been purchased over 24 hours ago). Interestingly, I was told that 24 hours was the policy but the store manager could override the policy. So the manager can override policy? Uh... OK. Having spent an hour and a half of my life attempting to buy an in-stock item, my desire to attempt to assist a third manager in a second store to understand this incredibly flawed internal logic had vanished. No call from the district manager yet so in the end I returned the above items to the Roanoke store as bike accessories do me no good without a bike. Despite my best efforts, and an hour and a half of my life, I could not hand anyone at Dicks my money today. Weird.

    They don't sell ammo or guns anymore so this place is just an overpriced clothing store. If I need…read more$80 sweatpants I know where to come. Besides the customer service here always sucked but I sucked it up cuz they sold guns and ammo. Waste of time!

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    C & E Gun Shows

    C & E Gun Shows

    1.0(1 review)
    28.2 mi

    I attend the C & E Gun Show when it comes to Hickory NC because it's the closest gun show to my…read morehouse, but even then it's a 45 minute drive one way. I've noticed over the past three shows I've attended that prices have risen to the point of being ridiculous. For example, a vendor had a Taurus GX4 XL for $481.50 with tax and that's if you pay cash. Using your credit or debit card will add another 4% to that bringing the total to a little over $500. I went home and bought the exact same GX4 XL online for $305 total including insured 2 day shipping and my FFL holder's transfer fee. That's a huge savings of between $176.50 and $201!! So that tells you how high prices have gotten when you can order on line, pay an additional $45 for shipping and a FFL transfer fee and still save between $176 & $201 over gun show prices. And most vendors are not willing to negotiate prices or if they do, it's only for a very small amount off of their already high prices. I had one vendor only willing to come down $5 off the price of a gun and he acted like doing that was going to bankrupt him! SMFH! Also if you want to sell or trade a gun you get offered an insultingly low price for it. Ammo prices are just as bad. I saw 9mm range ammo in 50 count boxes for as high as $35 a box when my local gun store has boxes of 100 count 9mm range ammo for just shy of $29 with tax. Same for .45 ACP I saw 50 count boxes of range ammo for as high as $45 a box when I can buy 50 count boxes of .45 ACP range ammo for around $25 elsewhere. Prices on .22's are beyond high. I saw 50 count boxes of basic .22 long rifle as high as $10 a box. Really?? $10 a box for .22 long rifle?? I went to Rural King and bought 50 count boxes of .22 hollow points for just $3 per box. I suspect that these much higher prices have something to do with C & E raising the prices of vendor tables from $60 to $75 each. On top of that admission prices have gone up to $12 per person after just going up to $10 per person not that long ago. I'm going to have to reevaluate if driving 1.5 hours round trip and paying a $12 admission fee is worth it to attend a C & E gun show if I know I'm not going to buy anything because prices on both guns and ammo have become so ridiculously high and especially knowing I can buy guns and ammo far cheaper online or in stores locally.

    New River Sports - guns_and_ammo - Updated May 2026

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