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Timmee
04-14-2005, 01:52 PM
... looking for a 25mm composite ammo box, and found they didn't have any in stock. While looking around, my roommate stumbles (almost literally) across this box. He dug around in it for fun, and found a right feed Phantom that's seen plenty of use (and rust), and a Splatmaster (didn't examine it too closely). Out of curiosity, I asked how much they were. The clerk at the store quoted me a price of $5 each for them. After I recovered enough to ask him to repeat himself, my roommate ended up buying the Splatmaster, and I bought the Phantom.

What does this have to do with anything? I was just interested in hearing peoples stories of similar experiences.

SteelSoul
04-14-2005, 02:05 PM
I won a auction for a Ol Sherdian at goodwill, paid 20 bucks for it
It had a custom carved rifle stock with a bottom line adaptor on it
Got it all fixed up for 30 been playing with it for years :shooting:

fire1811
04-14-2005, 02:22 PM
good find

Lee
04-14-2005, 04:17 PM
excellent find.

best deals i ever got were a vsc stock class for 120$ and a new in brand new in box emag for 400$

wish i could find something like you did, thats awesome.

thorn
04-14-2005, 09:25 PM
an ion for 170 lol.

Gumbe
04-14-2005, 09:43 PM
my best find was a peace of chewed up gum on the side walk..it STILL HAD SOME FLAVOR who would ever though out a peace of perficly good gum :clap:

mark_1791
04-14-2005, 09:53 PM
The clerk at the store quoted me a price of $5 each for them...ARGH! I HATE YOU! WHY CANT THAT HAPPEN TO ME? I WOULDVE BOUGHT BOTH OF THEM!

yakitori
04-14-2005, 10:12 PM
lucky you. Makes me want to go check out whats at the local surplus stores :D.

Good buy.

Snertz
04-14-2005, 10:17 PM
Same idea, but somewhat higher in price was my deal: NIB Empire timmy when they first came out, for a grand total of 500 bucks. :ninja:

covadsucks
04-14-2005, 11:29 PM
My wife's parents gave me a hundred bucks to keep her...does that count? :rolleyes:

barrel break
04-15-2005, 12:37 AM
No stories here, except stories of paying TOO much cashola.

AGD
04-15-2005, 01:06 AM
So I was going throug my attic see....... and to my complete amazement what do I find???......

BOXES AND BOXES OF CLASSIC AGD STUFF!!! I was amazed! :dance:

so I sold it on ebay.....

AGD

Blazestorm
04-15-2005, 02:41 AM
Why didn't you keep it... :ninja:

Jeffy-CanCon
04-15-2005, 10:02 AM
Best deal I've seen was a friend (Hugh Franklyn) pull a handfull of old PMI parts out of a bin, for $10. That night he built a stock-gun out of them. It's not quite a PGP, and not quite a P68, but it still shoots darts even seven years later.

Next best: My pal Cliff bought an almost-new Tippmann Pro-Lite at a pawn shop for $75 that came with a $100 red-dot sight and an Armson Sniper barrel.

minimag03
04-15-2005, 03:21 PM
Mine is probably my Viking. $500 with eyes, Pandora noard, WAS board, and more upgrades. Oh, I also got a old Shocker that was missing a board for $10 too.

Scott Hudnall
04-15-2005, 07:24 PM
A friend of mine found 2 very old 'mags at a pawn shop.....both in excellent/new condition, for $50 each. This was in 1998. They apparently had a slightly different bolt/power tube, and someone who's been around paintball for longer than me (that would be pre-1992) and had been a paintball tourney player from before 92, a 'mag shooter, and an AGD fan, said the 2 mags were "level 6" mags. he even pulled some seals from his stash of stuff and gave it to the guy, saying the seals were specifically for the level 6.

I've not been so furtunate with my paintball gun purchases.

covadsucks
04-16-2005, 12:01 AM
The best deal I got was a free Line Si Bushmaster Pointman from a friend of mine who wanted to clean the floor of his closet and decided to call me first. I am havin' her rebuilt and soon to be tigerstripe anno'd. :D

Creative Mayhem
04-16-2005, 09:23 AM
So I was going throug my attic see....... and to my complete amazement what do I find???......

BOXES AND BOXES OF CLASSIC AGD STUFF!!! I was amazed! :dance:

so I sold it on ebay.....

AGD

Hooray for those who bought it... Like me. :D

Ratzo
04-16-2005, 10:12 AM
I found a BrassEagle Eagle(Nightmare) that I paid $50 for.
And was given a PGP this past winter.