Phantom Fireworks of Evanston, Wyoming

I’ll be the first to admit that the buy one get one free is a total gimmick, but buy 1 get 2 free specials are pretty good. As long as you know what you are getting, it’s about the same price.
We come up here from Utah where many exploding fireworks are illegal. We go to Phantom because they have a pretty good understanding of what’s legal in Utah, and even have some bundles and shelves marked as such.
I would normally give them a 3 star experience as they are a good clean store, with knowledgeable staff, who are sometimes a bit pushy to remind you of their deals. This last trip in particular, we actually had great customer service. We had received a coupon to purchase a $ 99 dollar aerial for $ 35. We had 3 copies of the coupon and 3 adults and our plan was to beat them at their own game and use 3 separate transactions to get 3 big fireworks.
The girl helping us said that was allowed, but went to check other coupons, and found one of the buy one get 2 free coupons, which actually saved a a few bucks. Upon checking out, we were at $ 243 and the teller told us if we spent $ 7 more dollars, we would qualify for a large reloadable mortar kit. I said I would do it, but that the mortars were illegal in Utah. She grabbed her manager, who swapped out the mortars for another large aerial cake, and a smaller aerial as well.
I realize Phantom uses sales tactics to try and push more fireworks, but they really did want us to get the most for our money.

There are basically «3» Firework stores in the area, right off the freeway (Phantom, Black Cat, and TNT). I went into each of these firework stores doing price comparison. One thing to note, each store has their own brand and style of firework. There are on a few fireworks that are generic (i.e. Roman Candles). After comparing all three stores, I found Phantom to be the most expensive. The advertise the heck out of buy-​1-​get-​1-​free firework, but they raise their prices a little more than double what the price would be at one of the other firework stores. For example, you can get a good size Roman Candle pack at the Black Cat for $ 2.50, but at Phantom, it will cost you $ 5.99 (which works out to be $ 3 a pack). A 10 – 15 shot firework show who will run you at least $ 50, but at Black Cat, you get a similar show with the same amount of shots for about $ 15 — $ 25.
All firework store has incentives for buying a certain amount of fireworks. Phantom was the first store I went to and I wanted to visit all three stores before buying any fireworks. When I walked out of Phantom, they handed me a business card that had an offer of buy-​1-​get-​2-​free discount (up to a $ 150 item). I came back here and purchased only 1 item to get 2 more free. Phantom is the only firework store that has the adult snaps (which are those cheap Mexican throw on the ground poppers, but only these come with a BIGGER bang).
Phantom displays their fireworks more like a grocery store and the store looks nicer. You MUST show your id to purchase any of the fireworks (the other two stores do not require it). Phantom claims that it is to monitor terrorist activity… just a FYI. Make sure you sign up for their text message when you enter the store and they will send you a free offer right away to your phone.

This place does probably have the largest assortment in the area. They also usually offer a buy one get one free special. This means that their fireworks are more expensive but when you account the one that you get for free in then they are pretty similar to other store locations. Sometimes you get it slightly cheaper than other places, sometimes more than other places if you priced it out by piece.
The assorted packs were not as good here as the other stores in the area.
There were several fireworks that were either not priced or labeled wrong. When I pointed out the mistake of the pricing the young kids working there were all kind of useless. I had to wait about 20 minutes to have them finally get a hold of their boss on the phone to figure out what to do.
They have a broad range of prices on items which is good but it also makes it hard to get things that are similarly priced for the buy one get one free promotions.
If you are up there when they have their buy one get two free promotion then it’s worth the hassle.