How to lower paint prices?

[nak81783]

I understand businesses have to make money. Moreover, paint prices aren't too bad from online stores now compared to what it used to cost.

Anyway, I was just wondering from all of the business/marketing members out there, if there's anything the paintball community can do to get even lower paint prices?

Thanks,
Nathan

[deathstalker]

Buy more... especially at one time.

[Tom Sparkman]

Get together with a bunch of other players and buy 20 cases at a time. We do that with the local field owner and we've been getting Hellfire for $60/case, tax included. A store owner says he can get it for $55 for us but we haven't tried him yet.

Tom

[MiniMag84]

Yeah, if paint prices were lowered I know of a good 20 people that would start playing paintball. It's almost ridiculous. I'd like to know the wholesale price of a case of paint. I would play soooo much more often if the prices on paint just dropped like 10 bucks a case... Man, that would rock pretty hard.

[nak81783]

I know that paintball wholesale is like a lot of other things. The more you buy, the lower the price goes...to a certain extent. However, certain brands like PMI can only be sold at a minimum price...ie $42 for BigBall and $45 for PMI Premiums. If a store owner is caught selling below those prices, PMI yanks their product and doesn't let them sell anymore.

As for getting a big group together, that'd be great if there were enough regulars around to want to go in on that. We started our private field with 3 guys. Now it's over 60. Unfortunately, there's only about 3 regulars. Everyone else is hit and miss. We get about 12-20 guys a weekend, but never the same ones. Therefore, it's hard to organize paint purchases.

Good ideas guys. Keep 'em coming. We'll all figure something out.

Thanks,
Nathan

[punkcmonkiez]

paint prices are rediculous if you ask me... i mean isnt it somthing like 6-12$ to actually make a case a paint...i'm goin to iao and paint is 80 a case for blaze 90 for hellfire and 100 for inferno... there has to be SOME way to sell paint cheaper even to stores... i understand that they need to make money but why cant they sell cases for 30 bucks or somthin... if they only cost 6-12 bucks or somthing to make the case of paint why cant they sell it cheaper?? it cant cost that much to pay off the machines and pay for labor or whatever other costs they have

[MiniMag84]

I agree.

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

its called, paintball companies know they sell it for this much and people will buy it, so why lower the price? i say boycott them... if everyone boycotted then theyd lower prices or go outta buisness





WHO'S WITH ME!?!?!

[MiniMag84]

I bet if everybody stopped paintballing for like a week they'd lower them 10 bucks... But I mean absolutely nobody in the USA paintballs at all for one entire week.

[Animal Mother]

I buy my paint for $30 a case (Big Ball). I think paint prices are cheap!

back in my day sonny boy, paint was $120 for cheap crap. The reason I got back into paintball was because paint was so cheap. I couldn't afford to spend $120 on paint, $10 admission, about $8 to fill my 20oz tank twice plus gas to get to the field every week.

Now I pay $30 a case, $4 to fill my scuba tank, $10 to get into the field that just opened 10 minutes from me (less gas).

Back when I played Nelson was the best paint you could get, RP Shear was 2nd best and double triggers were stupid looking things that no one would dare put on their gun. LOL

[MiniMag84]

You forgot the off topic references to 'nam and charlie bein everywhere.

[adam shannon]

Originally posted by nak81783
However, certain brands like PMI can only be sold at a minimum price...ie $42 for BigBall and $45 for PMI Premiums. If a store owner is caught selling below those prices, PMI yanks their product and doesn't let them sell anymore.

then how come my local shop has big ball for $39.95.

even wholesale prices are dependant on how much you buy. we buy pallets from a major manufacturer for $26 per case for good paint. if we were buying a couple pallets a month it would be cheaper.

we sell paint at our BYOP field for $45 a case...the local bigtime field sells pmi premium for $65 a case FPO...it used to be $85 last month...and was $120 a couple years ago.

paint is becoming easier to produce...and there is more competition...when rp shearer was the only paint maker 20 years ago paint was $25 a ball...thats $500 a case.

fields have very small profit margins on everything but paint...why because with a captive audience at FPO fields if you wanna play you gotta pay their price. its the only place they can make any $ at...yeah some fields that are huge are raping and raking it in...they sell a couple pallets at $75 a case a weekend. but some small fields may sell a pallet a month. they gotta make $ somewhere to cover all the overhead.

paint will continue to come down in price whith all the new manufacturers...and when more fields open to give the big monopoly fields a run for the money. competition is the only market factor that really drives prices down for the consumer.

alot of field owbers are hesitant to lower prices thinking they are just loosing $ and not potentially making money by making the game more accecable>bringing more players>selling more paint=more money in the long run.

competition! i run a backyard field at cut rate prices. the last weekend the big guy had paint for $85 a case he had 25 people for open games and team practice at his 100+ acre megaplex. we had 55 people in our 10 acre backyard field...with 2 full sup air fields.

there are other factors in the equation like his sponsored team driving away regular teams that practice there thru unsportsmanlike behavior and childishness. and he had been planning to lower prices anyways. but still the overall moral is that if you get fat and lazy at the top...competition will stir you up and overall benefit the consumer.

[Infection5]

Originally posted by adam shannon


when rp shearer was the only paint maker 20 years ago paint was $25 a ball...thats $500 a case.

um....no. I think what you ment to say was 25 cents per ball.

[Animal Mother]

Is Bud Orr's "Worr Paint" on the market yet? He built his own factory and is making his own stuff now. Wondering if it hit the market yet.

[nak81783]

CO Paintball has there Big Ball for $42 a case and PMI Premiums for $45 a case. They said that's the lowest allowed price by the manufacturer. I never really understood that until I asked a local shop owner about it. He said if he sells it for less than that, PMI yanks his dealer account, and he can't carry their product anymore.

I don't know what's going on with that if you guys are getting it for below that price. I know I'd like BigBall for $30 a case.

Animal Mother, where are you getting BigBall for $30 a case. Is that a special deal or wholesale price or something? I know sponsored teams and such are exempt from that bottom price limit thing.

Thanks,
Nathan