For me using PayPal has been a pain and comes close to a scam operation. I made past purchases using PayPal but for some reason some charge(s) gets shifted over to their credit unit. I always pay off all my purchases immediately using my credit card. I never carry a balance. I see no reason PayPal credit unit should get involved. When that department does get involved they charge huge late fees for any small amount. I got so pissed…
Archive post (taken down 12/2016) United States, Brick And Mortar Sporting Goods Stores Are In Flux Why Sports Chalet May Have Been Taken Down It seems to me that Vestis Retail Group may have realized that it could not easily appreciate, measure and thus manage a store that offered technical customer service in addition to everyday fitness and sports product. Vestis typically offers product only and may have come to realize that Sports Chalet had technical services that were not…
I received reports that the Sports Chalet store in Brea, California seemed to have a special positive standing in the community. Here are some empirical indicators: Customers arriving at the checkout during the liquidation sales made comments to the staff that they did not like any other sporting good store. Some were close to crying. The manager of the liquidation company made the statement that in over 10 years of offering liquidation sales, he had never seen a store like…
Thank you for contacting REI regarding a store in the Brea, California area where the Sports Chalet was.
Vestis may have lost a good chance to leverage some of the Sports Chalet stores into a full service community sporting goods store chain and thus dumb down further the brick and mortar landscape.
The product reservation card had a scratch off one time code that she needed to gain the game reward The customer allegedly should have retained the card to activate the code. It took my daughter some time to realize that she needed the code to activate the reward.