GAMBLER

Are you serious? Business is business. If you started your business today with zero customer base, you would fail in a hurry with your thinking. Who would pay a new business that is charging way more than the current businesses in the industry? As the new guy, you have to come in at the going rate or lower to build a customer base. Do the math..... 40 boats at less than $2000 a boat, will not pay the bills. It will barely be enough to keep the lights on. 40 boats is about the max this marina will do unless the channel is widened and the parkway bridge is removed. Frank still has open docks at way less per foot. Boating and fishing is a dying industry. It is being priced out of existence. Where are all of these boats going to come from? As long as Bald Eagle is still in business, you will not draw those guys back to Sandy. If you did, it wouldn't even come close to filling that marina. Most guys there would end up at the Oak due to their boat size. Not one guy at Tommy's will leave. Having the best mechanic on the lake to fix your boat on site is worth any headache the lake level will ever throw at us.

That marina in its Hayday wasn't full. It doesn't have the potential you think it does. Take out the parkway bridge, widen the channel leaving the marina and you have a little bit more potential. Both of those things will never happen. Those two obstacles keep a lot of bigger boats out of there. Look at Bald Eagle. It has a bar/ restaurant, it doesn't have the obstacles, and it still isn't totally full. Bald Eagle charges those prices with a building with amenities, a bar/ restaurant, docks with electric and water, No parkway bridge to worry about, a wide channel and they are not just getting started! As for the endeavor comment, that is exactly how I got Gambler Rigs off the ground and still made profit the first year. I didn't bust into the market by overcharge customers. You will not get customers if they can get the same thing for half the price. Busting into the market overcharging and not selling docks at all is a good way to lose it all. Can't pay the bills on an empty marina.

$65 compared to half that price up the creek is steep. Empty docks slips at $65 a foot will never pay the bills. No one will pay that when there are much cheaper options up the creek for hundreds less. The short ride to the lake isn't worth double the money. When I started Gambler Rigs, I wouldn't have sold a rig if I doubled the price of my competitors.. I had to start off below their price and gain a customer base. I didn't make a ton of profit the first two years but it paid off in the long run!

The reaction of the ladies kayaking up the creek that afternoon was epic!

Check Shumway, West Marine or Bryce.

Keep emailing them. I emailed them through paypal and through my personal email. Good luck!

Weird how you post on a fishing forum and they immediately respond back with an email!

Guys, I placed an order on 4/25/26 and have not received it yet. I have tried calling and emailing with zero response. I will never do business with this company again. Just a warning for all so you don't have this issue.