Over Charging for paintball products

[tonysk83]

http://www.888paintball.com/product_card.asp?ItemNo=++16%2DA%2FA+CMP+D%2FF+SLV

come on that little drop costs 75 bucks, who else thinks that is crazy, i probably costs them a few bucks to make, i want to hear other people opinion on over priced products like this one.

[AK47]

Alot is overpriced, lil tube of dow33 is $20cdn. Or $8 per hundred, it should be like $2 per hundred:mad:

[halB]

youd be hard pressed to find 200 dollars of material in any paintball gun, and that goes for dragon timmys and all.

[StealthElephant]

yell at the companies....i have seen the price sheets of a paintball store...and i can tell you they make VERY LITTLE on everything they sell....i mean....when an owner tells you he makes very little profit...he's not just saying that....

[halB]

i know, its the companies im pissed off. and those damn fields that do fpo VIVA LE OUTLAW!!!

[Jiggaman8604]

i feel your pain but i think its one of two factors... either paintball is not popular enough in america to bring the prices down...or your paying for the angel name... its probably the name and thats what happens to all items just look at nike vs rebok or adidas:pissed:

[Meph]

That looks to be more than just a drop forward. What else could it be? I don't know, maybe something like the Thor from Pure Energy. Just looks to be more than just a drop.

Also, you know why things are overpriced? Because people will pay for it, that's why. Until there's a boycott and people refuse to pay top dollar, guess what? You're just going to have to put up with it.

[halB]

its the name, definetly the name. you know how much it costs to make the electro board for an angel? i wouldnt say over 10 bux.

[133+ Player]

Well good things rarely come without work. If ya gotta work for something cool then do. One benifit though, it keeps most guns out of idiot hands.

[Richy_C]

Originally posted by halB
its the name, definetly the name. you know how much it costs to make the electro board for an angel? i wouldnt say over 10 bux.
Know how much it costs to program logic for the boards that gives them their nice feel? A good deal. You think LCD boards are that cheap? They come with a thermometer for the board so you don't fry it, a game timer, with a vibrating feature, a back lite LCD screen, a shot timer, dwell, firing modes, shot counter, acheived rate of fire, and the gun even lets you know what's wrong with it. Angel boards are very nice. Know how much money goes into encapsulators and their maintence? Alot. Know how much it costs to make a drop forward? Nothing, it's abosolute *** rape how much they cost.

Solution? Don't buy drop forwards, improve your game, and have money to play. Wow!

[halB]

not with talons going for 20 bux, it only takes one ball to ruin paintballs name

[VeNoM]

Don't forget to take into account the cost of machines that it takes to make this stuff guys . . . the man hours and work that is put into this stuff (i'm reffering more to dragon timmies, guns and stuff like that, not that little drop) . . . machines, labor, payment for the warehouse, advertising . . . that stuff is not cheap.

[spyderdude]

u'd have to be an idiot to buy that drop from 888 paintball :eyes:

the pricing on that drop foward is ridiculous, but most other stuff is well priced, except, of course, cases of paintballs sold for over $100.

[matt197]

yeah exactaly what venom said the materials do not cost much but all the machines , labor , shipping, and avertising what costs alot

[halB]

ya, but they pay for it quick. it doesnt cost that much when your pumping out a thousand said products a day on an already established production line. the majority is just sheer profit and greed. know why a dragon timmy sells for close to 1k? because people will buy it for that. same with fpo. only when people REFUSE to pay a crap load of money will the prices be lowered.

[tonysk83]

dont worry i wasnt going to buy it, lol, well i think it is they name, you pay for, it is like abercrombie cloths, you buy for the label, this is also like fpo, 35 bucks for 600 balls, at one of the fields buy me, it is 130 for a case of 2400, entry fee is 15 bucks, i can only afford to shot 600 balls a day, and there field isnt that good, thats why i go to challenge park:nod:

[AngelsHolocaust]

id say alot of the stuff is reasonably priced, but some stuff is outragious..like that person said about the paint over 100 bucks or a dye gauge costing $5-10 more than a normal gauge..

challenge park sucks..go to badlandz its much better and its byop

[halB]

BOO YAH I CAN beAT ALL YOUR PARKS!!! BURGER KING PROPERTY IS ABANDONED AND READY FOR RENEGADES!!!

[jesuz]

i must say paintballing is the MOST overpriced sport(is it even a sport?) in the world! i though mountain biking was expensive!...till i got hooked in paint ball...now i got to sell one of my bikes JUST TO BUY PAINT!!! not PARTS!