Another reason to be careful when shopping at Camping World

Executive wrote:
Watch the video, get a chuckle, think of what you'd do in a similar situation, chuckle again and enjoy the rest of your day. Don't overthink this. :) :) Dennis

The video did not make me chuckle. It made me sad that they even made the video, but that is what our society has evolved into.
I won't absolve CW of all responsibility, they certainly played a roll.
However the couple is equally as guilty.
If I get locked in a store at closing time, I can only blame myself for not paying attention to the time vs. blaming someone else.

dodge guy wrote:
Sorry, but CW knew they were back there and locked up without checking on them. saying they should keep checking in with the front desk to see when they are closing is no way to shop for an RV. If I`m looking around, I`m paying attention to what I`m looking at. you lock up and go home without knowing where I am then you are wrong.

CW deserves all the bad press they get!

And do you go to browse through RVs 30 minutes before closing?

We are getting very few facts to the story - just a drama-enhanced bit from the couple. Did the employee tell them they were closing in 30 minutes and the couple insist they just wanted to check "one thing in a certain RV" and then they would leave? Only to go wandering into other RVs? Did the employee have cause to believe they were gone?

As I said above, I've seen the way customers behave at a store's closing time. I've heard them lie to get into the store only to then ignore the employee's warnings/instructions and do whatever they want. I've had them tell me "I'm leaving now" only to find them browsing an aisle at the back of the store 5 minutes later. I can just imagine how difficult that could be when they have RVs to disapear into with no concern about the employees.

Just because you don't like CW doesn't make them wrong in every situation.

Sorry, but CW knew they were back there and locked up without checking on them. saying they should keep checking in with the front desk to see when they are closing is no way to shop for an RV. If I`m looking around, I`m paying attention to what I`m looking at. you lock up and go home without knowing where I am then you are wrong.

CW deserves all the bad press they get!

I was driving my Peterbilt up a mountain in Nevada. I stopped to Pee but I locked the keys in the truck so I couldn't get out.

Watch the video, get a chuckle, think of what you'd do in a similar situation, chuckle again and enjoy the rest of your day. Don't overthink this. :) :) Dennis

ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
:) Hi, these people are idiots. Electric fences have insulators. And a cop touched the fence to check it? If you can hand your kids over the fence it can't be very high. A Ford dealer that I worked at, some times, locked up before I was done working on a car; I had to climb over the fence a few times to go home.

Calling them idiots is way too nice, morons is more accurate. What business do you know of that has an electrified fence? The ambulance chasers would have a field day. You will not find an electric fence at an ICBM complex, a military base, or a state or federal penitentiary lol. An RV dealer is going to have one? Internet Drama no doubt.

As far as the units on a Camping World lot your not going to sleep in one overnight, or get to check them out, or get overlooked while in one at closing time. Every Camping World I have ever been to keeps the units locked up and they're only opened if your accompanied by a pushy sales person, and thats if you can find a sales person to begin with.

Once I find the units locked at Camping World or any other dealer that's when I get in the truck and head on down to the next guy that does not keep them locked so they can corner you into the sales BS.

Just like Milehigh says, everything bad that happens pertaining to RV is CW fault. Anything good is co-incidental or due to the very intelligent RVers.

CW dropped the ball in my opinion. (and that ball wouldn't have far to drop). If that family had wondered back there I might have a different opinion, but someone took them back there and then quit paying attention to them. I've asked more than once what time a Dealer closes, and the canned answer I typically get is "whenever we are done".

I pulled into a parking lot for CW in Colorado Springs on a Sunday and they had the 2nd exit to the parking lot chained off (because the Dealership wasn't open) I couldn't get out with my toad and asked them to unlock it because I couldn't get out. The old crank behind the manager badge wouldn't open it so I had to disconnect and turn around and reconnect right outside her window. I have no sympathy for a company run like that and smile at any bad publicity thrown at them.

Maybe a PA system would be ignored, but playing the PA system audio would make a great rebuttal to the idiot's YouTube video on the local news.

Even with a PA system, people will ignore it and keep on browsing. We did a 30 minute, 15 minute, 5 minute and a "we're now closed" announcement and we'd still find people just browsing the aisles afterwards like they had all the time in the world. We had people who came to the door a minute or two before closing, say "I just need to get X" and then start browsing the aisles. They just didn't care that we were closing and wanted to go home.

I suspect someone who arrived to look at RVs 30 minutes before closing is someone who will not pay attention to closing announcements, etc. 30 minutes is not enough time to look at one RV, let alone several.