JA> > BOAT/U.S. has opened a retail store at 13660 Preston Rd., across
JA>from  > the Sears auto service center.
JA>
JA> > Now West Marine has some real competition in town.
JA>
JA>    Thank God! I hate going to West. THey have a real attitude and
JA>their catalog is next to impossible to get.
JA>
JA>    I'll go check these folks out real soon.
JA>
JA>                                                      Jamie
JA>
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JA>(1:124/5143)JAMIE - We have a BOAT/U.S. here in Connecticut, and i
went to buy a radio log book for my radio, and the salesperson asked me
if i was a memeber and i said no, he then told me that i would have to
become a member before i would be able to buy anything from them, he
told me that the only way that i would be able to buy anything, would be
to be to fake a membership number, which he did not want to do, which i
dont blame him. now as for the problems that you have had at West
marine, all i did to get their catalog is call their 800 number and
they sent one to me at no charge.  and you said that they have a real
attitude problem, it might just be the salesperson that you delt with,
if i were you i would either talk to another salesperson or if it keeps
up, i would talk to the supervisor or manager, because i have been in to
West marine 3 or 4 times, and i have had no problems at all with their
attitude.
i should have put this part up with the BOAT/U.S. info, you may went to 
check with the salespeople if you have to have a membership for them or 
not for the store in your area, but usually when you have to get a 
membership for a store, it includes all the stores and not just a few of 
them, because the store is new, they may have a trial period, where you 
can buy things from them without a membership, but after the trial 
period is over, than you have to buy a membership from them before you 
will be allowed to buy anything else.  we also have a boaters world 
store here, i dont know if you have any of those stores in your area or 
not, but their prices are pretty good.
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