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cookie123
10-05-2005, 01:30 PM
I am looking into buying a case of paint off the internet and just wnated to know where a good place was to get a good case of paint for a pretty cheap price?
I would prefer not to buy from actionvillage because once i bought from tehre and the paint was mostly popped. then i bought from bradyspaintball and not one popped ball but now they only sell like one case of paint.
any suggestions on where to get paint?:eyes:

CapnCrunch
10-05-2005, 02:05 PM
Wherever its cheapest. The dealer shouldn't make a difference on how much paint is broken, that will mainly be the mail and luck of the draw...

spydadude
10-05-2005, 02:06 PM
Flatratepaintballs.com

..SilentAngel..
10-05-2005, 03:25 PM
yeah, use flatrate, they are really cheap, no tax, just the price that it tells you. ordered a case of xball bronze from them, it came in 3 days and all of the paintballs were in good condition, none broken.

IronCorps
10-05-2005, 03:37 PM
I ordered from flatrate, except that they had been moved to another website, converging with them. I ordered a full case and in all 4 bags there were popped balls ><

Omegaboy13
10-05-2005, 03:46 PM
I ordered from flatrate, except that they had been moved to another website, converging with them. I ordered a full case and in all 4 bags there were popped balls ><

I can almost guarantee you it was UPS's fault, I worked for them for a long time. Our job was to get stuff off the trucks as fast as possible, that doesn't require being delicate about it. You have to have a full 14-18 wheeler loaded to the top unloaded in under 45 minutes by yourself, or you pay the consequences. A lot of people think that broken balls in bags are because of the dealer, when 90% of the time it's because it was kept in an unventilated trailer then tossed like a newborn baby on to a conveyor belt where it then gets flipped and tossed again a 10-12 times. In fact a few of my friends that worked with me actually threw stuff like paintballs harder because they thought it was fun, that's what you get for going ground.

nerdcore
10-05-2005, 04:12 PM
I can almost guarantee you it was UPS's fault, I worked for them for a long time. Our job was to get stuff off the trucks as fast as possible, that doesn't require being delicate about it. You have to have a full 14-18 wheeler loaded to the top unloaded in under 45 minutes by yourself, or you pay the consequences. A lot of people think that broken balls in bags are because of the dealer, when 90% of the time it's because it was kept in an unventilated trailer then tossed like a newborn baby on to a conveyor belt where it then gets flipped and tossed again a 10-12 times. In fact a few of my friends that worked with me actually threw stuff like paintballs harder because they thought it was fun, that's what you get for going ground.You don't still work for them, do you? Because i dislike them boys in brown. Them AND Fed Ex.

Some of the cheaper paint just doesn't ship well but UPS is pretty hard on packages. We ship certain things that get returned re-using the same boxes and UPS completely rapes those boxes. They boxes are really dirty (more-so than usual) and the corners are all bent or ripped open. The post office ships stuff with more care... and lots of times cheaper.

Do you absolutely positively have to order paint?

jdolla
10-05-2005, 04:55 PM
I wouldn't recommend ordering it online, just b/c you never know what can happen during shipping. Broken paint in the bags has squat to do with the website, usually.

clown_13_2001
10-05-2005, 05:05 PM
You don't still work for them, do you? Because i dislike them boys in brown. Them AND Fed Ex.

Some of the cheaper paint just doesn't ship well but UPS is pretty hard on packages. We ship certain things that get returned re-using the same boxes and UPS completely rapes those boxes. They boxes are really dirty (more-so than usual) and the corners are all bent or ripped open. The post office ships stuff with more care... and lots of times cheaper.

Do you absolutely positively have to order paint?

Sorry for my OTness, but I <3 your umbrella hat picture from your website.

Omegaboy13
10-05-2005, 05:14 PM
You don't still work for them, do you? Because i dislike them boys in brown. Them AND Fed Ex.

Some of the cheaper paint just doesn't ship well but UPS is pretty hard on packages. We ship certain things that get returned re-using the same boxes and UPS completely rapes those boxes. They boxes are really dirty (more-so than usual) and the corners are all bent or ripped open. The post office ships stuff with more care... and lots of times cheaper.

Do you absolutely positively have to order paint?


No I don't and I have a torn minuscus and a limp when ever I walk to remind me of why I don't. Hey man, it was either us getting in trouble for being delicate or your package getting messed up. So be nice to a complete stranger who will never know why there are holes and broken glass in his package due to my negligence, or get a raise for being a good worker? Hmmmmmmmm

CountyPaintball
10-06-2005, 08:01 AM
We've shipped thousands of cases of paint with only 2 or 3 total reports of broken balls. We pack the cases inside larger boxes with plenty of foam peanuts to keep them from getting bounced around too much.

I do NOT recommend ordering cheap (budget) paint to be shipped though. We only had a 2 or 3 reports of broken paint, but they were all the cheaper brands. The better stuff (Blaze, Formula 13) has no reported incident of breakage during shipping.

SecretAsianMan
10-06-2005, 10:50 AM
i bought 14 cases of midnight at $31 per case (team Practice). all the paint came in 3 days, none broken.

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