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  • Navy Seal
    I wanna Angel! :)
    • Feb 2002
    • 143
    #46
    Thank you. I also do say that the price is a wee bit high. Co2 is free at my place. But I want into Mags ang got a 48ci. Thc nitro did wonders, oh yea it did. After playing for a while I walk up to the HPA fill station. Acting all cool I say "Fill her up, 3000psi, 48cu". His answer hit me like a bullet. "Ok, that will be $10". I'm like "WHAT THE HECK!!!". So it ends up that I had to pay this rediculous price. Later a team mate found me in the fount bunker after a game all curled up in a fetal position with my thumb in my mouth murmering repeatedly... "10 dollars, need Co2...10 dollars, need Co2..."lol. Anyway. TOO MUCH MONEY!!!!
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      • zads27
        Student of Life
        • May 2001
        • 565
        #47
        Hey man, all I have to say is:

        If you don't want to pay for compressed air/CO2 fills, or your own compressor/CO2 condenser... then you're stuck.
        HPA/CO2 costs money.
        Deal with it...

        ...otherwise, you gotta make your own free compressed air
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          • InfinatyBPS
            Dead Black Rose
            • May 2001
            • 2404
            #48
            Re: Re: Ridiculous gas prices

            Originally posted by Hasty8



            The compressors for air can go as high a 5000 dollars...

            Lets figure somthing out shall we? Ok my local store charges $9 for a full 3k fill, and about 20 people (at least) come in everyday to get a fill. 20 X 9= $180
            Multiply that by 30 days... $5400, well looksie, within a month they break even and then some, and we know that stores are getting other money coming in from other stuff,
            especialy when they charge $100 over the msrp on markers which is already high. So it's not like store are not going to make enough money to pay back the compressor within a short ammount of time, so if it only takes a month to pay off, why do they still charge so much, thats $5400 a month that comes from nothing... just somthing to think about.
            You smell like dookie... No really though.

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              • MantisMag
                Dim Sum
                • Dec 2001
                • 1895
                #49
                geez. i never knew those compressors were that expensive. now i know why the shop owner was like "hey you want a fill. want a fill. i could fill that for you." i bought a nipple cover and he was like "i could fill that for you and put the nipple cover on." haha. now i see it. since he's got the equipment it costs him very little to fill it. but he initially made a very large investment on it. so he's trying to get every fill out of that thing that he can. either he's trying to make back his money asap or he's milking it for the profit that he's finally getting. oh well. he filled it for free when i bought the tank. :)

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                  • X-Plosive
                    AO's sexiest member, and biggest post whore :)
                    • Mar 2001
                    • 1807
                    #50
                    one store here is $3 for nitro and $4 for co2. I find thta is a reasonable price and they charge you the same rate no matter what size the tank is (within reason). One field down here is $5 for all day nitrogen and $10 for all day c02. I also find those prices very reaosnable. It's just this one field in Opa-Locka that pisses me off, $15 per c02 fill(any size tank within reason) and then $2 per 500 psi of nitrogen. Does that sound right? It seems like they did it *** backwards.
                    Last edited by X-Plosive; 02-22-2002, 02:43 PM.


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                      • zads27
                        Student of Life
                        • May 2001
                        • 565
                        #51
                        YOU GUYS HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT AIR PRICES!!

                        Get this:
                        In San Jose, (60 mi south of san francisco for the less geographically inclined), guess what?

                        The I&I nazi stores charge a whopping:

                        $3 for 1k psi!!! that's $9 for a 3k fill!!!!!!

                        Local field?

                        $15 all day air

                        Me and my friends resort to using my friend's scuba..





                        ..so don't complain.
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                          • TheTramp
                            Registered User
                            • Jan 2001
                            • 4019
                            #52
                            The one thing I think we can all agree on is that zads27 is really getting the shaft. That store must be really hurting if it feel the need to charge $9 per fill. If it isn't struggling and using the N2 fill money to stay in business then it is price gouging.

                            I understand and fully agree that fields can't just give fills away but I feel that anything over $5 per 3000psi is over the line. Go over that and you are asking people to bring their own SCUBA even if they have to hide it in their car.
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                              • gmag
                                Lucid Dreamer
                                • Jun 2001
                                • 409
                                #53
                                YOU GUYS HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT AIR PRICES!
                                Yes we do.

                                The I&I nazi stores charge a whopping:

                                $3 for 1k psi!!! that's $9 for a 3k fill!!!!!!

                                Local field?

                                $15 all day air

                                Me and my friends resort to using my friend's scuba..





                                ..so don't complain.
                                This is exactly what I'm talking about. Zads, you are getting ripped off, big-time. Don't tell us not to complain...this is when we should unite our complaints to try and get something done.

                                Infinatybps, thats a good point. The paintball shop I go to also sells other stuff(i.e. video games, role-playing games, toys, cards, etc.), so I know they're not just "breaking even". They are making a profit. I would be interested to see a response to your post.

                                ~Brett
                                "Men think they think upon great politcal questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side; they arrive at convictions, but they are drawn from a partial view of the matter in hand and are of no particular value. They swarm with their party, they feel with their party, they are happy in their party's approval; and where the party leads they will follow, whether for right and honor, or through blood and dirt and a mush of mutilated morals."
                                ~Mark Twain

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                                  • Hexis
                                    Green Mag Freak
                                    • Sep 2001
                                    • 2427
                                    #54
                                    Re: Ridiculous gas prices

                                    Originally posted by gmag
                                    Ok, first off, we are buying air. Whether its CO2 or Nitrogen, its still air. I think its ridiculous that we have to pay for it in the first place, and then for it to be so expensive is beyond words. It is AIR. We inhale it and exhale it everyday. I understand that there is some cost in the process of compressing it and thats fine. So charge me a dollar. I cringe everytime I hand 5 or 6 dollars to the guy who just filled my nitro tank. Its disgusting. If we want to introduce more people to our sport, than we should lower the prices.
                                    Originally posted by Hasty8
                                    The compressors for air can go as high a 5000 dollars (stand alone gens) and the Nitrous has to not only be bottled but maufactured. That's right. A lab somewhere has to make the Nitrous. What, you though the stuff just grew on trees or something like that?
                                    The point about blowing in your own tank was intended to illustrate that the pressures we are working with are incredibly high. My point is that even though air is easy to comebu, in no way means the cost to fill a 68ci tank to 4500psi is low.

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