You are a wise and consciousness consumer. You have selected to purchase your items at the lowest priced establishment. Nothing wrong with that at all. But not every company does price-matching, nor do they need to or have to either. Every establishment runs their own business the way they deem best for them.
Just like running into a gas station on your way home from work and grabbing a gallon of milk... you're going to pay $1.00 to $1.50 more for that gallon at the gas station then if you went to your favorite local grocery store.... right? But eventually, the milk is sold in that store, and the folks who purchased there are extremely happy and have no problems spending the extra $1.50 on that gallon, knowing good and well they could get the exact same thing cheaper somewhere else.... The only problem is, "somewhere else" is not at a convenient location on their path home from work.
You have to weigh the issues, cost vs convenience vs YOUR time vs how much running around you have to do, vs how much you spend on the internet looking up things and comparing prices, vs the expense of fuel to travel to a stick and brick store.
So Camping World has higher prices, but for some folks, they don't do internet shopping at all, they don't have ready access to a Cabelas or a Bass Pro shop, or a Gander Mountain. Availability, ease of access, and TIME all factor into our personal decisions where we purchase items and what we are willing to pay for them.
Your choice for place of purchase was good. You did your homework. But that does not mean Camping World has to accept price matching.
FYI: Last Summer we wanted an outside folding table we could use for a dishwashing station. We checked Cabelas, since they opened a brand new one not very far from where we live. The price was more than we were willing to pay. On vacation, we stopped in a Camping World in South Carolina. Guess what my wife found? You're right! The same table.... and it was lower priced than Cabalas. Different region of the country could account for the difference in prices? Maybe. But guess were we spent over $100 that day!
