Best bet for superior fireworks at great prices. I have been buying fireworks for years, from many places: big stores, i.e. the huge buildings you can see from the highway, the chains (Ph@ntom), smaller local folks (Indiana, WV, PA, TN, etc). Just took a chance and stopped by based on the reviews, but was a little skeptical....everyone says they are the best, but you never know.
These guys rock. You can get good deals many places, but I did get a better deal here than elsewhere -- e.g. the price I paid for Excaliber and other well known brands was ~10% better than other places. BUT what really sets them apart is the "Smalls" -- massive selection of mid and smaller sized items that perform as good or better than much more expensive items elsewhere. That's where I saved hundreds of dollars....and the kids went nuts picking out a wide variety of items.
Example: Found some smaller, 7 shot "cakes" (shoot flaming balls with report). Priced at $3.95 and after discounts paid less than that. These were seriously good fireworks that keep the guests entertained while waiting for the bigger stuff. But here's the deal: fireworks from other places that PERFORMED about the same were about $10. The other store that sold me the $10 cake couldn't describe how it worked, and it had bigger packaging -- so you'd assume bigger is better, right? But these small items from Wholesale had the same punch as fireworks we had bought other places for 2-3X more.
The selection of good smaller items was also superior -- in my experience many stores focus on the high end (mortars, cakes) and the very low end - firecrackers, bottle rockets, but have almost nothing in between. These guys have 2 walls of stuff in the $3-12 range, many higher quality, unique items we have not seen elsewhere, and so we literally filled a grocery cart with it.
So that's the quality side...in the Quantity side, in all, we spent about $1,000 and it filled the back of my minivan. We almost didn't have room for it all. I've spent that amount at other places and just didn't seem like we got nearly the same amount.
As a bonus, just remember that you will get a bunch of free stuff when they ring you up at the register. I feel like a lot of customers didn't know this and might have purchased more if they knew of all the free stuff and extra discounts given at the end.
Double bonus: owners have all big items on video (just ask-- it's on their phones), and have tried all of the items in the store....they can describe every item in great detail.
Suggestion for owners: it would be helpful to have descriptions typed up and attached to the shelf, or the product, and would also be good if you had a TV showing the bigger items in action. The personal tour and descriptions is helpful, but should not be the only way to...
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