Originally Posted by
jefnvk
I agree on the overprice bit, BUT they run enough sales through the year that it takes care of itself. Not to mention the stupendously good deals that can be had at Garage Sales..
A lot of people took issue with this, so I must not have worded it too well. What I was trying to say is that REI is not a big box store, and having rock-bottom prices is not how they attract customers, which is one of many ways they are different from being something like the Best Buy of outdoor stuff.
(Their Shimano pedals are sometimes a factor of 2 more expensive than other places, to take an extreme example.)
I buy much of my clothing there for example, and it isn't inexpensive, but it tends to look ok and is functional.
We booked our Galapagos trip through them. It was by no means inexpensive.