Undisclosed fees and poor customer service
We purchased an Otter flip over ice shack on 12/31/2025 from the Eau Claire store. We chose this one because the sales person said it had integrated lights. We asked if they could assemble it and he said they could. They didn't have any in stock but could ship from another store. Even though it was being shipped between stores it would cost $175. We purchased $550 worth of accessories that we left there to install. Total spent that day on just this was $2200. We received an email confirmation which showed it was setup to ship to our home so we had to call and get that straightened out. Once it arrived at the store, they called to notify us and learned it did not have integrated lights. We asked to have Otter lights installed and we would pay when we picked it up. They told us no, we'd have to buy them separately and install them ourselves. When we went to pick up the shack we looked for lights but we're told scheels didn't have any in stock and we'd have to order online. OK fine. So we drive around to get the ice shack only to be handed a bill for clam lights they installed and a$300 assembly fee. Not only were they the wrong lights but we were never told about an assembly fee - for that cost plus the shipping between stores, we would've just did it ourselves. We went in to speak to the store manager, who was quite frankly a jerk. We simply said if the fee wasn't waived we'd like to return it all and go somewhere else. He eventually agreed to refund the fee but said "I'm looking you in the eye and telling you we're never refunding this fee in future" and made us feel like WE did something wrong. There were so many mistakes made by scheels throughout this entire process and we never received any apologies. We've spent a lot of money here over the years but this one experience has us reconsidering shopping here in the future.