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Quote: Originally posted by dadsbeaniemad on 21/5/2010

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Thanks - but all Southern stores lol

Please can we have some up North and more in Scotland - Inverness perhaps ........... please :0))

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Straiton by Edinburgh would be nice, right next to my local Ikea. I guarantee I'll visit often, get a card and buy lots.

Go Outdoors?

Well 'we' have one just a few miles up the road in Wolverhampton...The staff are always friendly and more to the point there are always a fair few of them available to assist with advice etc......

OK, they may not all have the survival knowledge of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, but hey, the average customer wants a gas stove and a fleece, not artic sledges and Everest mountain gear.

As for the discount card, I have one but more often than not I just give the people on the till my postcode.....IMHO it would be a better system to have a points type card where you get points from buying goods then you can use them against future purchases.

Go -Outdoors? yep I like them

Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 24/5/2010

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Quote: Originally posted by dadsbeaniemad on 21/5/2010

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Thanks - but all Southern stores lol

Please can we have some up North and more in Scotland - Inverness perhaps ........... please :0))

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Straiton by Edinburgh would be nice, right next to my local Ikea. I guarantee I'll visit often, get a card and buy lots.

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I have just visited go outdoors in Wakefield its the nearest on to us about 45 mins away. Its the first time i have been and was really looking forward to a spending spree! Sadly I was really dssapointed with it, they didn't have the table and chairs I wanted and mostly stocked 'hi-gear' branded stuff, is it their own make I don't know but it looked a bit flimsy to me.   The worst part was the tent display half of them looked like they had been pitched up for years!  It looked like an abandoned campsite .    Maybe I've been spoilt over the years, we have a shop near us called Winfields its great and has some really good offers 

Sally

Quote: Originally posted by sally 42 on 26/5/2010

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Maybe I've been spoilt over the years, we have a shop near us called Winfields its great and has some really good offers 

Sally

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Quote: Originally posted by sally 42 on 26/5/2010

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I have just visited go outdoors in Wakefield....... The worst part was the tent display half of them looked like they had been pitched up for years!  It looked like an abandoned campsite . 

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As I live quite close to that store, and am a frequent visitor, I can assure you that the longest any of those tents have been on display is about three months. Yes some look a bit tatty but they suffer endless visitors walking mud all over the carpets and generally abusing them - I do question the logic of putting carpets in them, but given there are no samples to display they have to use the real thing which quickly get wrecked.

Whilst they have tried to alleviate the mud problem by laying wood chip paths they are still in a field basically. It must be difficult to keep such a display in tip top condition without having to constantly renew the tents used.

So a tad unfair to them I think, but just my 10c.

Quote: Originally posted by AudsleyI on 27/5/2010

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Quote: Originally posted by sally 42 on 26/5/2010

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I have just visited go outdoors in Wakefield....... The worst part was the tent display half of them looked like they had been pitched up for years!  It looked like an abandoned campsite . 

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As I live quite close to that store, and am a frequent visitor, I can assure you that the longest any of those tents have been on display is about three months. Yes some look a bit tatty but they suffer endless visitors walking mud all over the carpets and generally abusing them - I do question the logic of putting carpets in them, but given there are no samples to display they have to use the real thing which quickly get wrecked.

Whilst they have tried to alleviate the mud problem by laying wood chip paths they are still in a field basically. It must be difficult to keep such a display in tip top condition without having to constantly renew the tents used.

So a tad unfair to them I think, but just my 10c.

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It was ten times the store it is now when it was Mitchells practical campers,the staff were all very informed on all aspects of camping, not now it is just a discount camping store which i use as and when i see something i want.

cheers

steve

Quote: Originally posted by mikegalagher on 27/5/2010

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Mitchells was a different beast. We got our first canvas frame tent there, then our Pennine FC. AFAIK it was a family firm specialising in camping, with some clothing. We loved it.

GO is, well, outdoors, and so picks up other activities of interest to many campers, just as the cyclists, for example, might be interested in lightweight camping.

Whether they can have specialists in every activity in every store is debatable, but if possible it's certainly desirable, I'd agree.

We've probably spoken to more staff in Pudsey, and they've been fine.

If they've got what we want at a there or thereabouts price, we'd use 'em, if only because they're local. But we've bought lots from Yeomans and online suppliers where G.O. didn't stock the item or with their pricing fluctuations, were out of line at the given moment.

Yer pays yer money etc.

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We still call it Mitchells even now,bought our old frame tent from them and look where we are now.

Its all their fault we have to get up at 3.30 in the morning for our trip to Cofton.

Andy

The thing to remember about Go outdoors is that when you purchase online its not picked from a warehouse but the shopfloor. If you phone about an order they cannot tell you if there is stock or not.

They take payment as soon as you order and sometimes forget to inform you that there is no stock..then they refund you. I have gone through this with them 3 times and will now only shop instore which us about 35 miles away, so it has to be a real bargain...to travel that far..