Would you Save the Industry if it Cost you a MILLION BUCKS?

[AGD]

AO,

I want to ask a simple question. If there was an 80% chance of you saving the industry, but it was guaranteed to cost you a million bucks, would you do it?

Of course this is only hypothetical and has nothing to do with the SP stuff at hand. Any references to SP will be deleted without notice.

So I put it to you, I expect intelligent answers.

Thanks for the help,

AGD

[Fatjon]

if i had more than a million bucks.

[Johnny_Reb]

If it was an 80% chance of saving the industry, Id have to take it, even if it did cost a million.

[spydervenom]

yeah, if i could afford it and still stay afloat i most likely would.

[TNS2k2]

If you would be able to keep prices the same on products, and be able to afford that million, then i would have to say yes.

[cockermongol]

No. Save yourself. They WANT you to pay them the million.

[TigerMan]

Yes I would. Hands down for me. I'd do it because if you put it down you save the industry, then your company can still be around. Yeah that money loss could possibly lead to the end of your business or whatever, but if you didn't put that money down to begin with you wouldn't have had a chance to begin with since the industry be gone. So for me, I'd rather at least put up a fight to stay and save the industry then just to quit in the beginning.

[RRfireblade]

If I had a million and.....

If saving the industry would return my investment 100% and..

If I was real sure about the 80%......

I would probably take the risk......

Risk of losing my money and my wife.....

One of which I would miss very much.....

Jay.

[Johnny_Reb]

No. Save yourself. They WANT you to pay them the million.

Yeah, but would you rather lose a million bucks and be remembered as the man who saved the industry, or be remembered as the man to greedy to save it?

[Bulldog]

Depends on how much a million bucks was to me. Bill Gates' 1 million dollars = Bulldog's 5 dollars. So It's a relative question I guess.

[MarkM]

Originally posted by cockermongol
No. Save yourself. They WANT you to pay them the million.

Guess who didn't read the 1st post properly

To answer IF someone was in the position to have a $1,000,000 then the rewards further along will repay that "investment". It is said that the 1st 1,000,000 is the hardest to earn the rest comes easy so again "if" anyone had that amount of disposable income then it's a sound commercial venture. There aren't going to be many if any on these forums who have that kind of money, especially with the average age of the posters, there are exceptions but...

[nt2004]

lets see it in a different light...
1 million dollars to save a sport played by 8 million people. Semms worth it

[tranman]

I think it really has to do with how much you love the industry, and how long you want to stay in the business of paintball. If it is your life, and you couldn't see yourself in any other business, i could see your justifying the money spent. Also if you aren't going to be in the business long enough to make the money back, there's no point.

[breg]

I would say yes because of the way I feel when I play. I would say yes because there is so much left for paintball to accomplish. I would say yes becasue there are more than a million people who play and they count on you and other compaines to provide them with the necessary equipment to play the game. I would say yes because in life there is more than money, I don't care how much.
There is a point where you have to ask yourself, is doing what I do worth the money? If it is then by all means think of the million dollars as money invested back into paintball. If not then... do what you must.

Breg

[spydervenom]

according to HBO...its the first 20million thats the hardest.