Smart Parts will be closed at the end of the month !!

[om3n]

^^this

[Smoothice]

posting in an epic thread

[DeuceSV]

I better go buy up all the 100 dollar Ions I can find on craigslist right now!

[Jaron]

Will be very interesting to see if AGD will have a resurgence now.

[SCpoloRicker]

Cynical poster is cynical.

[Tunaman]

Who would have EVER thought that AGD would still be selling product after Autococker and SP were gone. I wonder who they will claim is going out of business now???

I am sure the dealers still think we suck. I guess they can buy Tippy's and Kingman to stay in business.

AGD

ME!

[doc_Zox]

[mostpeople]

v-v-v-v-errrryyyy niiiiiiicceee!!!!

[nuclear zombie]

I won't believe it until it happens, and if it does happen I'll be nervously expecting a Houdini trick where they come back a month later.

[Watcher]

Will we hear of any high end mechanicals in stores after this?

[Frizzle Fry]

I am sure the dealers still think we suck. I guess they can buy Tippy's and Kingman to stay in business.

AGD

I'm sure you know that Boston Paintball is one of the bigger stores / chains in Massachusetts and has been around for ages...

In the last year or so I have not seen a single Shocker on the wall there. They didn't even bother to order the new Impulse, and the few IONs they have are 2 years old. The only SP markers they ordered in any numbers (and we're still only talking a dozen or so) were the VIBE and the SP-1 which are currently collecting dust.

They make their money off DYE/Proto and Eclipse/Etek for electros, Tippmann and BT for mechs, and the occasional Spyder in either electro or mechanical. Granted, there are a few DP G3s on the wall, and there have been BL Marqs and Victorys, but they haven't moved nearly as fast as the rest.

I'm sure Boston Paintball would carry TacOnes and ULE Pros and see if they sold. I'm sure they would sell, too. The only hesitance I've ever seen in buyers when it comes to AGD comes from the fact that a $500 mechanical seems scary when you look and it's not covered in MilSim crap... The whole "mags are hard to tech" rumor seems to have been put to death.

[fishmishin]

I'm sure you know that Boston Paintball is one of the bigger stores / chains in Massachusetts and has been around for ages...

In the last year or so I have not seen a single Shocker on the wall there. They didn't even bother to order the new Impulse, and the few IONs they have are 2 years old. The only SP markers they ordered in any numbers (and we're still only talking a dozen or so) were the VIBE and the SP-1 which are currently collecting dust.

Shockers haven't sold well in over a year, even used ones. I have had several ION's in the store over the last year, and they haven't sold very well either, nobody wanted them, they just didn't want to buy into the SP BS. That and the fact that SP flooded the market with ION's, and it seems a lot of people want something different. Don't get me wrong I probably sold around 25-30 SP markers this year, but that is a lot less than were sold the years before. All I can say is good riddance, I am glad to see them go. I am sorry that so many people have lost there jobs in the process, but it isn't going to hurt my feelings to see SP gone.


Oh and Tom, our company is an AGD dealer. We don't look at AGD as junk and never have. It has gotten hard to sell a high end mech gun these days though. I have already begun to sway people towards AGD since I acame back to playing last year, and I expect that I will be able to help sway more people towards the company. I have always been an outside sales person for AGD so to speak and I will be pushing harder than ever now.

[Skeeter]

[Shirow]

Shockers haven't sold well in over a year, even used ones. I have had several ION's in the store over the last year, and they haven't sold very well either, nobody wanted them, they just didn't want to buy into the SP BS. That and the fact that SP flooded the market with ION's, and it seems a lot of people want something different. Don't get me wrong I probably sold around 25-30 SP markers this year, but that is a lot less than were sold the years before. All I can say is good riddance, I am glad to see them go. I am sorry that so many people have lost there jobs in the process, but it isn't going to hurt my feelings to see SP gone.


Oh and Tom, our company is an AGD dealer. We don't look at AGD as junk and never have. It has gotten hard to sell a high end mech gun these days though. I have already begun to sway people towards AGD since I acame back to playing last year, and I expect that I will be able to help sway more people towards the company. I have always been an outside sales person for AGD so to speak and I will be pushing harder than ever now.

I'd imagine it's probably somewhat easier now than it was 3 years ago, right? Still, a lot of people see the capability to drop 10+ bps with a twitch of the finger and it's hard to convince them 'no, you actually want a fully mechanical gun'

One of the tough things I think is that there is no longer an entry level AGD marker. When I got into paintball, I never would've bought a mag if the cheapest one I could get was $500. I bought a $150 classic when I started.. I dread to think what I've dumped into it so far but at the time, I wouldn't have paid much more than that.

I got a couple of friends into paintball recently, they both bought A5s because they were fairly cheap, they had built in hoppers and they could run them off CO2. If they could've picked up a new classic from an online store for $150, I think I could've swung them the other way.

[Smoothice]

I'm so excited to go into my local paintball store and ask for a rebuild kit.

And when they say (as they always do) "nobody has that stuff. They're out of business".

I can say "no, that's smart parts your thinking of..."

then I will come here and buy whatever I need from AGD or tunaman.