Another reason to be careful when shopping at Camping World

[Executive45]

Camping World - Mesa, Arizona

1. Call the number on the gate.
2. Call the police department.
3. Call the fire department.

[Executive45]

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

[Ralph_Cramden]

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.

[1968mooney]

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.

[Mile_High]

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.

[jplante4]

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.

[toedtoes]

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.

[Bruce_Brown]

Hard to blame CW on this one.

I'd say there was enough blame in both sides to go around.

Also, may all their troubles be as big.

[jplante4]

Yeah, I'm in the "stay the night in the most expensive rig" camp. Employees needing to clean out and dump and brand new fiver in the morning would probably fix the problem at this particular CW.

There are systemic solutions. Give lone shoppers one of those vibrating pagers they use at restaurants. Install a PA system and announce that the gates will be locked in 15 minutes. I see a new business starting...

[toedtoes]

DutchmenSport wrote:
If it were me, I'd find a comfortable camper and just spend the night!

Great way to test out your next RV! 🙂

[ROBERTSUNRUS]

🙂 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.

[All_I_could_aff]

Luck that the Rottweilers weren’t on patrol that night

[Expyinflight]

Oh please. How ridiculous. Just another example of candidates for the Darwin Awards.

[midnightsadie]

X2 cw is not at fault. those people said it was about a hour till closing. there fault.

[mike_brez]

Lantley wrote:

toedtoes wrote:
Having worked retail and witnessed people who arrive moments before closing and think they can just take their time shopping because the employees will just hang around until they are done, I am not convinced this is the fault of CW.

Where were these customers? Did they go inside an RV and hang out thinking employees would check every single one for them? Did they just ignore a comment by the employee who took them to the lot and warned them they had just 30 minutes before closing? Were they just oblivious to what was going on around them?

So much unanswered to arbitrarily blame CW for it.

Agreed. If I am there near closing time and I get locked in on some level it's my fault as well.

X2 BFD

[Lantley]

toedtoes wrote:
Having worked retail and witnessed people who arrive moments before closing and think they can just take their time shopping because the employees will just hang around until they are done, I am not convinced this is the fault of CW.

Where were these customers? Did they go inside an RV and hang out thinking employees would check every single one for them? Did they just ignore a comment by the employee who took them to the lot and warned them they had just 30 minutes before closing? Were they just oblivious to what was going on around them?

So much unanswered to arbitrarily blame CW for it.

Agreed. If I am there near closing time and I get locked in on some level it's my fault as well.