I want different ULE colors!!

[srrdude]

Why does agd only produce 5 colors for the ule bodies? Correct me if im wrong, but ive only seen purple, blue, red, clear, and black. I know for a fact that black dye for anodizing costs more than all of the above, whereas colors like green, yellow, and orange are dirt cheap. So why dont we see those? I want a lime green on or a skyblue! I wanna see a bright colored body to contrast the black parts! The best color option at the moment for ules imho is red, because it is the brightest and produces the most attractive contrast on emags. More contrast= more attraction. So why no more light colors? Yellow would be sweet, tequila would be even sweeter, but we only see 5. I dont know if this has been discussed before (i'd imagine it must have at one point so please do not flame me) but i want an honest answer.

I'm sure someone will give me a response like
"teguila won't sell well because its to custom" or "agd will not want to do custom colors" but they dont have to! They could make green, yellow, and orange along with the originals, but also pump out a few fades or splashes like on the original emags.

I know agd has the ules anodized before they sell them, so why cant they save the people who want a green yellow or orange body 50 bucks by having them anoed those.

[S.S Bandit1]

While I was at an AO meet at Paintball Sams in Wisconsin, Tom Kaye himself told me that he sells like ten black ones to every colored.

[Brak]

why cant you save yourself and spend the extra 50 to get it annoed yourself instead? why do you have to keep asking and wanting crap that your too lazy to do yourself?

[DiRTyBuNNy]

yes..well until i get the pimp daddy fade he will...

[srrdude]

Originally posted by Brak
why cant you save yourself and spend the extra 50 to get it annoed yourself instead? why do you have to keep asking and wanting crap that your too lazy to do yourself?

because i dont want to spend 50 dollars plus round trip shipping and wait a week to have a color that COULD be done at the time of purchase on a ule body.

While I was at an AO meet at Paintball Sams in Wisconsin, Tom Kaye himself told me that he sells like ten black ones to every colored.

Theres a lot of factors determinin that im sure. Maybe its in part because purple and clear arent very popular colors?

[�.C.]

Originally posted by Brak
why cant you save yourself and spend the extra 50 to get it annoed yourself instead? why do you have to keep asking and wanting crap that your too lazy to do yourself?

[personman]

They cant make every color that has ever existed, I think the colors are fine the way they are even though I would love a green one.

[-=Squid=-]

My god brak. I thought you were smarter than that. Please reread the initial post, and then move onto yours. I think something has gone awry in the wonderful world of braks mind.

[srrdude]

thanks bc, it most definately has nothin to do with being lazy (though lazy is often times fun)

its the fact that it takes 1 week for the body to get to the anodizer, 1 week (if they are decent) to get it done, and one more to get it back. Shipping costs like 8 bucks, if there prices are good (bout 50) then you end up spending 66 dollars, plus any other costs such as packaging or tax. So it is a seventy dollar, 3 week ordeal. explain to me how not doing that is lazy, brak?

[srrdude]

Originally posted by personman
They cant make every color that has ever existed, I think the colors are fine the way they are even though I would love a green one.

They make just about every fade imaginable for x-mags. I think they could spit out different colored bodies (i too desire green. Bright... like lime. looks killer with black parts.)


Squid- i concur.

bc- another comment, i know they are busy with a lot of things, but anodizing of aluminum is a set time for solid colors other than clear, so just asking for different colors from their anodizer wouldnt take much time.

[raehl]

One word:

Inventory.

It's just expensive to account for numerous different body colors, to carry the inventory on the, etc. If they did, the price would likely go up more than $50 each - so if *YOU* really want it, then *YOU* pay for it - most people don't want it, so they ain't going to make them pay for it.


Now, what I would like is a WARP FEED ULE body - I don't care what color.

I'll probably just buy an X Mag when it looks like I'm playing often enough to justify it though.


- Chris

[RRfireblade]

Maybe 'cause 99% of the time they go on black framed/railed mags and there's no way it would match any other "custom" colors anyway.I wouldn't put a fade body on a solid frame myself,and you'd never match a new fade with a old one.

Jay.

[personman]

Originally posted by srrdude
They make just about every fade imaginable for x-mags. I think they could spit out different colored bodies (i too desire green. Bright... like lime. looks killer with black parts.)

X-Mags are PREORDERED. Actual people call them and say "Hey, I would like to order a C&C Xmag with a so and so fade." They write that down and when it gets to their batch they say "Hmm, he ordered a so and so fade." They send it to the anno and get it annoed so and so fade.

ULE Bodies, they stock. They arent pre ordered, they have 500 or 1000 or how ever many of one color, and order more when nessicary. If they got enough demand for one color they might stock it. You cant just go up to them and say 'hey, I want a tequila fade ULE body, would you stock 500 just for me?'

However, you might be able to special order one. But then again, it would be easier to anno it yourself.

[srrdude]

raehl- yes i knew someone would metion inventory, but your pulling those number out of your back side pit of doom. It could go very simply. Agd has raw bodies sitting around at their anodizer, they take the orders from their online store (drop and click color options for customers) and forward them to the anodizer, who in anodizes according to the order. No additional costs required. There are other options as well. Agd has their raw bodies in there wherehouse. When you order from the online store, you specify a color (or have two drop and click options for fades and such for additional prices), and agd sends the bodies to their anodizier, the anodizer sends them back, and then agd sends them to you. That would get you you body (with a color of your choice) to you in 3 weeks tops at no additional cost to you or agd (Because they already send their raw bodies to an anodizer) as opposed to having the body to you in one week after ordering, and 3 weeks and 70 bucks after sending it off to an anodizer. Everyone wins.

[raehl]

You have a very poor concept of cost.

Who exactly is going to process all of that? Who is going to receive the now-special-colored, special order bodies, match them up with the correct order, put them in the correct box, and send them to the right address? Who is going to pay whoever is at the annodizer to count up how many of each color they need, make sur exactly that number is made, including remixing exactly the right amount of solution for that number of of each color, and get the order out? Who is going to pay for the extra number of shipments to keep product turnaround reasonable?


It makes no sense for AGD to add extensive costs to their system to carry extra colors that will make virtually no difference on the number of bodies they actually sell - and, in fact, might actually DECREASE the number they sell as the price gets higher.


- Chris