Gruntbull Anodizing Woes. Not a happy camper...AGAIN!

[Warwitch]

Bunny's thread on PBN went poof!!

Why am I not suprised. Thats crap. Try to inform the community when someone has a legit gripe and you get pulled.

[Dend78]

Bunny's thread on PBN went poof!!

on PBN no never nothing ever just falls through the cracks there

:spit_take

[Warwitch]

WOW. Just checked GB's website and a couple of things caught my eye.

1: My Viking is on thier homepage under "Recent Work"

and

2: It seems that now they are anodizing yo-yos. And I quote:

"Heck even Todd has looked into a Yo to pass away some of the time throughout the day."

Im guessing thats what they were doing when they should have been watching our markers.

[Spider-TW]

I'll bet there's a new guy doing the work. It's hard to believe that someone would even bother doing the work in the first place if they were capable but didn't care enough about their work to produce quality results.

[Dend78]

Robert, what can i do to make this right?



A) complete refund.

B) reanodize complete marker.

C) complete refund and reanodize complete marker.

What do you think is fair?

glad to see this its great when a company will actually own up and say exactly that

[Ruler_Mark]

glad to see this its great when a company will actually own up and say exactly that

Yea after they ruin a virgin euro xmag body.

[Dend78]

Yea after they ruin a virgin euro xmag body.

very true, but ive seen crap all to many times go as is because a company wouldnt do anything about it even though it was their problem to fix

[DevilMan]

Kudos to GBA for stepping in and posting up.

Bunny... Best of luck in getting it resolved man...

DM

[Ruler_Mark]

How is it ruined?

How many times do you think a marker can be safely reanodized?


After anodizing almost 1000 paintball markers in the last three years I can tell you that they can safely be reanodized more times than you might think.


This particular marker has only been done twice. Do you really think its ruined?

From a collectors standpoint YES. Part of that gun's value was the fact that you can get it annoed and it would be the first anno on it. Thats something special.

sure a body can take a few re-annos but what about the threads. Espcially for tight tolerance guns.

Between this, war's gun, and the fact you lost the trigger to a friend of mine's emag without telling him and shipping his gun back missing the part. I advise no-1 to use you. Now if ya'll start producing quality again I could change my mind.

[xxkylexx]

Option D, free anodizing for all...

[Phaelynar]

From a collectors standpoint YES. Part of that gun's value was the fact that you can get it annoed and it would be the first anno on it. Thats something special.

sure a body can take a few re-annos but what about the threads. Espcially for tight tolerance guns.

I don't think the value of the marker drops based on the number of times its' been anodized...to some extent. If its' been done like 6 times I could see where purchasing it and having the idea of re-anodizing the marker at some point in the future would be worrisome.

On the other hand, if the anodizing job ends up looking like a giant turd, it also decreases the value of the marker.

I would say the best option would be to send it back at no cost to the owner of the x-mag, with the stipulation that it comes out right this time, and that if for whatever reason the marker no longer functions due to being anodized x many times when it should've only been done once, Gruntbull purchases the marker + eats the anodizing costs.

I would also advise the owner of the x-mag to eliminate the fade aspect of the anodizing. Do some parts black, and some parts red. Maybe he'd eat the cost of a tattoo or making it gloss to compensate for the removal of the fade.

There's also another option out there as well. Seeing as Gruntbull posted here offering a full refund, use that money to send it elsewhere, or just have him pay for another company to anodize your marker. If the other company screws it up too though, I'd say it's no longer in Gruntbull's hands, and that you'll just have to deal with it.

Or you could just leave it as is :rofl:

No matter what option you choose (and you have several) I'm sure it'll work out in the end.

[mobsterboy]

oh dear...
and i'm waiting on my PM5 to return from GBA. I did a solid color though so maybe I'm safe.

[BigEvil]

oh dear...
and i'm waiting on my PM5 to return from GBA. I did a solid color though so maybe I'm safe.

Im glad to see GBA's desire to make this right. You should be ok.

I look forward to Bunny's next set of pics

[Rudz]

Todd has balls showing up here

Kudos bro

He has offered a full refund and re anno, that sounds good to me

Only if todd can garantee that there won't be another "oops"

I think they are competent annodizers, just maybe for some reason a bit too relaxed at times


Hope this all works out


And I too vote option "D", put it to a vote

Aye!!!!

[Ruler_Mark]

I don't think the value of the marker drops based on the number of times its' been anodized...to some extent. If its' been done like 6 times I could see where purchasing it and having the idea of re-anodizing the marker at some point in the future would be worrisome.

On the other hand, if the anodizing job ends up looking like a giant turd, it also decreases the value of the marker.

I would say the best option would be to send it back at no cost to the owner of the x-mag, with the stipulation that it comes out right this time, and that if for whatever reason the marker no longer functions due to being anodized x many times when it should've only been done once, Gruntbull purchases the marker + eats the anodizing costs.

I would also advise the owner of the x-mag to eliminate the fade aspect of the anodizing. Do some parts black, and some parts red. Maybe he'd eat the cost of a tattoo or making it gloss to compensate for the removal of the fade.

There's also another option out there as well. Seeing as Gruntbull posted here offering a full refund, use that money to send it elsewhere, or just have him pay for another company to anodize your marker. If the other company screws it up too though, I'd say it's no longer in Gruntbull's hands, and that you'll just have to deal with it.

Or you could just leave it as is :rofl:

No matter what option you choose (and you have several) I'm sure it'll work out in the end.

The bushing in the rail effects the valve when changed by thousanths of an inch, who use al xvalves. There can be a preformance issue with mags when they are re-annoed alot. Wasnt GB who put a hole in a ww's vik imagine the tight tolerances and how they like the constant stripping. :rofl:


Whats funnie is thoose who jump to defend GB on this, you pay them todo something and they dont do it. QC failed again, I have been wondering why the GB gallery isnt updated as much anymore its cause this is thier new status quo, crap.