On 3/7/2018 at 6:36 PM, burros said:

75% mainly tackle warehouse 

and target /Walmart on line.

I didn’t read the post rite I thought it meant percentage of all purchases online not just tackle.

   Tackle 90%

Probably like 90% in store.  I have a scheels, a tackle shop, and a Walmart all near my house so I do most of my shopping there.  Scheels has pretty much anything I need and they will price match so that’s nice. The tackle shop has other not as popular “new” baits that you don’t generally find in other stores so if scheels doesn’t have a certain lure there’s a pretty good chance I can find it at the tackle shop.  I like seeing the stuff before I buy it to make sure it’s the right thing and I get it right away so I don’t have to wait for shipping.

My Walmart always got the same ol crap!

Less than 1% for me. Maybe like .3%. I love to shop online, but I also hate to wait for stuff to arrive. I try to go out on the water at least once a week weather permitting, and when I find something new that I think could work, and know a local store has it, it kills me to wait a week or more for it to arrive via mail to use it. It's distracting when I go fishing cause all I think about is the thing I could be using but can't cause it's arriving via snail mail sometime the next week. I find that usually when I factor in shipping and everything, it's about the same to buy it somewhere physical- BPS, Cabela's, Dick's, or my local private store Serious Tackle. I'm also the type to look at something in person before I buy it, I've had too many bad experiences buying something online and when it arrived didn't meet my expectations. I don't really buy stuff cause it looks good, I buy them cause I think it can actually work. I watch videos, read reviews, all sorts of stuff. And when I see something I think could really help me out I buy it. Plus I don't mind helping out local stores. The internet is cool and all but it really does put a hurt on local and big box stores. I don't want to evolve to a purely online world, and this is coming from an early millennial!

20 hours ago, Catt said:

Zero %  ?

So where do you shop the rest 100%?

95% . I live 10 min away from a BassPro but they have gotten to be a bunch of bull_hitters as far as I'm concerned. Dicks 10 min away stopped selling fishing gear,and the Walmart 5 min away never has anything I want. 

I used to love going to BassPro. Guys were nice and knowledgeable but that has changed, it's gotten to the point where I feel like I'm bothering them when I ask for advice. Shame, you would think local guys would be a wealth of info and willing to help. 

About 90%. I go to Amazon Prime first and if it's no there, I look to Academy next, both due to the free shipping. Then I look to other sources like TW.

17 hours ago, the reel ess said:

About 90%. I go to Amazon Prime first and if it's no there, I look to Academy next, both due to the free shipping. Then I look to other sources like TW.

I used to buy a ton of stuff from Amazon, fishing-related and otherwise, but I feel like in the last year or two the prices have been rising so much that even with "free" shipping with Prime, I can usually get the exact same thing off of eBay for less even when I have to pay a separate shipping charge. 

 

I also got sold some very obvious bootleg batteries via Amazon last year, and when I looked around for information about it it seems like a ton of people are having problems like that now that most stuff on Amazon is actually sold and shipped by third-party companies.   

On 3/10/2018 at 2:39 PM, fishwizzard said:

I used to buy a ton of stuff from Amazon, fishing-related and otherwise, but I feel like in the last year or two the prices have been rising so much that even with "free" shipping with Prime, I can usually get the exact same thing off of eBay for less even when I have to pay a separate shipping charge. 

 

I also got sold some very obvious bootleg batteries via Amazon last year, and when I looked around for information about it it seems like a ton of people are having problems like that now that most stuff on Amazon is actually sold and shipped by third-party companies.   

Yeah, nothing's really free. But to make it worthwhile to pay shipping to a site like TW, I'd need to order a lot and I rarely do. I haven't gotten anything that seemed counterfeit yet though.

I buy most of my lures local, I buy all rods and reels online because I get reels a lot cheaper online and nobody around here sells decent rods.

I find it funny that guys admit too doing 75 plus % off there shopping online.  And the. Complain that there “Local” Stores don’t stock anything !!!    We are ruining small business or local business in this country.   Have I bought on-line.   Yes    Do I make a constant practice of it.   No.    I try and support local.   Even if it is Cabela’s , BPS 

Only about 20% online. I live about 25 min from a good sporting goods store, and like getting things there. If they don't have it I order online