1600 down the drain

[bornl33t]

ya know rob.. those are actually really good prices.... I think it's 50-60$ right now for a case of "big ball" at both the local fields...Big ball is their cheapest stuff

[skife]

i buy all my paint local, my air aswell

Fantasy paintball in grandrapids michigan owns you!

haha

they have a centerflag cocker on the wall with 68/3k centerflag tank and a riccy 2k for $1200, but its on consignment(they don't pick the price the owner does)

[JesseB]

my local store owner is a dick head. So everytime I buy a new badass gun that i know he has one or two of on the wall I go in and get my tank filled...which happens to be on my new gun.

then i tell him i paid a little more than he had it marked after shipping just to piss him off...

Good god I love making him know that he missed any sales to me and my friends by being a dick

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by RobAGD
I tell you what.

Goto your local store, and ask then to sell you Bread and milk for cost because that the best way to get people into the store ?

Hey Rob,

I saw your later post and I actually agree with much of what you say. But surely if you were invovled in running any medium to large grocery store you're aware of loss-leaders.

I worked Canadian Tire (similar to Walmart for you Americuns) for a number of years and every week there were featured items in the advertisements that were being sold at or below cost.

You placed the displays of these items with related products that may or may not also be on special but make significant markup.

So how about this for a paintball store: Fill tanks for NOTHING or next to nothing. If next to nothing, make zero profit or a small loss. With everyone coming to the store to fill their tanks, they might pick up their paint at the same time. As you're filling the tank you can suggest upgrades and fixes. Offer other services at the same time. hook up with an anodizer, hydro tester, and all the other possible services so that the player can shop in one place and the details are handled by the store. Offer frequent customer rewards (free case of paint after X cases purchased).

Etc, etc, etc,

[Big_Chops]

i don't care what i have to buy i always support Aerostar of Wisconsin. Steve is the man. if Aerostar closed then i would actaully have to drive somewhere to buy stuff

[Jonno06]

well,i havent played since january, so im not sure how the local field is now-a-days...it really bit one last time i checked though:/

[Kaiser Bob]

888 shouldent be used to compare prices against a local store, especially a smaller one. For example in NJ most stores deal with NPS. Now unless you are buying in huge volume, NPS's dealer prices are maybe a couple dollars less then NPS's online store... 888 paintball! So basically they screw the dealers making it impossible for them to compete with online prices...

[ExtremeODD]

dude, my local shop ROCKS, they may not carry the best stuff, but they have the coolest owner, he saw a crappy gun i got, helped me with getting another (from a diff place not his) and that was GREAT, he helped set up a few things, throwing in macroline and connectors free. he even offered me his cocker for like 100 bux, cuz he dont care for them, and it needs a few things fixed (nothing major) i didnt take it tho (no moneys) but hes great, even let me try out his viking, that was greaaaaat

[Kaiser Bob]

888 shouldent be used to compare prices against a local store, especially a smaller one. For example in NJ most stores deal with NPS. Now unless you are buying in huge volume, NPS's dealer prices are maybe a couple dollars less then NPS's online store... 888 paintball! So basically they screw the dealers making it impossible for them to compete with online prices...

[cris8762]

i get anarchy for 40-45,
whitebox for real cheap (last time was 28 but it wasnt the field owner there that day),
hotspot (absolute crap, fill is EXREMELY watery) for 36,
and other stuff for pretty cheap

that's mostly because our field owner has a deal with Anarchy and his PSP team shoots their paint and wears all their stuff, so yea we've got da' hookup