Tom Kaye Retires from Paintball, AGD Under New Management

[quik]

Those goofy air tanks, they'll never catch on!


Have fun with the rest of your days.

[evan123]

Holy crap

[nerobro]

Tom, we will miss you.

[nato]

Thanks for letting us know and I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your life.

N.A.T.O.

[mag88888]

wowwww. i thought that agd was getting more popular. i guess i didnt understand. well i hope that you succed in whatever you do from now on. good luck. ps:thanks for the great gun. its WAY BETTER than any of the others. GOOD LUCK.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

[trevorjk]

you said that you would answer questions in this thread. so here is one for you

can we still expect to see you out at some feilds occasionally, and i mean this as will you just wake up one day and be like, im going paintball today? and will you still be a father figure here on AO?

[RogueFactoryKid]

Oh Snap!

[BobTheCow]

you said that you would answer questions in this thread. so here is one for you

can we still expect to see you out at some feilds occasionally? and will you still be a father figure here on AO?

I have a feeling he'll always be a father figure for AO, whether he wants to or not.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

MR. KAYE MR. KAYE MY SYDARM NO WORKY! *waves sydarm around*

[AGD]

What will happen to AO?

I need to find a way to make AO pay for itself. If it can do that it can stay around forever. I will be selling banner space as a first try but if that doesnt work it might have to go to some kind of membership fee. Stuff like AO has to get paid for somehow and Dave didn't take over all the bills I have to pay.

Will I show up at events?

Maybe, maybe not. You have to understand how hard it is to come back as an unknown. You all know me but in a couple months I will be invisible to 99% of the paintball world. Thats just the way it is.

AGD

[FallNAngel]

You continue to expect that things will be the same but in reality the old days of paintball are gone forever. The general paintball public hasn't put it all together yet. They dont understand that AKA is done making guns forever. That Odessey who brought you the best loader ever is now hovering at bankruptcy. WGP just gave up the whole upper end marrket in favor of a spider clone. Glen Palmer is going to retire to another country. Tippmann is now controlled by the functional equivalent of a superpower and the best Bob Long can do is come out with a new look every month.

I suppose we should add Tom Kaye stepping down as President of Air Gun Designs to the list. Thanks for your contributions the the sport of paintball, you will be missed.

[magmonkey]

Tom,

first off, thank you so much for eveything you have done for the sport.
you and your company are the reasons I am in the paintball business .

I wish things were different, I kind of felt this was coming after talking with you at IAO, I was hoping things would get better.

I hope things change and someday we see you again, the sport needs more people like you not less.....


respectfuly
Alan
Destructive Customs

[trevorjk]

What will happen to AO?

I need to find a way to make AO pay for itself. If it can do that it can stay around forever. I will be selling banner space as a first try but if that doesnt work it might have to go to some kind of membership fee. Stuff like AO has to get paid for somehow and Dave didn't take over all the bills I have to pay.


AGD

ever try a donation thing? id gladly give money for AO

[Painthappy]

question

Tom:

As this may come to a huge surprise to me and 99.9% of the industry....

May I ask how long you have been planing this move? Or was this something that you just one day woke up and said "Enough"?

If it was me, I would see this as a decision that I would have to labor on for years.....


Anyhow....
God Speed, and good luck with your future ventures.


Carter
aka
Painthappy