AGD in trouble?

[Mutilus]

Newsflash: AGD is going out of business also The end of the world, scenes at eleven... now here's Tom with the weather.

[xadamx]

if all the remaining mech companies went out of business this is the order in which they would iIMO
1kingman
2tippman
3agd
4wgp


spyder markets their guns to kids too well. they are cheap, fast, and pretty(kind of)

tippman OWNS the rental industry and most of the senario world

agd and wgp make the most high end mechs out there. they shoot good look good and are tough as nails(if you dont mess with your cocker anyway)

these people will be around for a long long time

[BD_Paintball]

they didnt say "you just got Punk'd" at the end??

[alkafluence]

Originally posted by LaW
I aslo heard that the world will end in a couple hours. Fairwell all

To quote a children's book: "The sky is falling."

[thei3ug]

here's what I've heard from both Evil AND PMI reps (not to pick on them.... just i haven't been able to laugh at palmer or AKA out loud yet):

AGD is out of business

AGD doesn't make guns anymore

Aluminum bodied mags? nice toy, but it'll never perform anything like the epiranha/omen.

we don't carry parts for mags, no one uses them anymore. We carry lots of parts for the impulse... (for this conversation i was privvy to a few prototype pieces from Evil a few months prior to this... the ones they showed me degraded performance and needed serious thought).


A competitor will say ANYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND FIRST. It doesn't mean they're necessarily bad people. It means they're doing what they can to MAKE A SALE. I had to work side by side with a PMI guy once... my god, he could talk your heart into a piranha after looking at an angel in a heartbeat, and never lift a pricetag.

Would I mind an automag sold cheap by a frightened owner? Not at all. I can not afford even a basic, but... don't trust anything a store owner says, a store employee, or a sales rep. They're there to sell what they can, and if they don't have the info or it goes contrary...

that's that.

[Python14]

Hey yall, my internship supervisor told me that Microsoft is going out of business due to bankruptsy.....

AGD isn't going anywhere but up.

[GT]

Originally posted by skittlesRgood
tippmann is gunna go out soon to but that national is gunna buy them.

Right, didnt they just build a 3millon sq foot facility to intagrate everything in one place?

[ezrunner]

simple measure

If AGD was going out of business they would start shedding fat to reduce load, all mags would start flowing out at bottom prices, the new TAC-ONE would not be coming out, and they would have not just spend probably $10,000.00 or whatever to setup at world cup.

AGD is going to be around for a while and TOM! !!!!

THAT PNEUMATIC TRIGGER IS THE MOST EXCITING THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN PAINTBALL.


AGD is going to be around for a while and if they cared to they could destroy the industry since they own patents that could break certain other operations.

Think about this, how many markers have a "blow forward" system with "one moving part"? Tom holds them in the palm of his hand.

-rob

[~WarpedRT#2~]

Yeah that Pop Rocks and soda thing isnt true. That rumor started when the actor who played "Mikey" from the life commercials supposedly drank 6 cans of soda, and 6 bags or Pop Rocks. They said his stomoch exploded.

It didnt. He is alive, but his acting carrer...RIP.

[Trina]

Wow, that is craziness!!

I can't stand when people make stuff up just to get a sale...after the moment he said that, if it were me, I'd be doubting this persons integrity and it would be hard for me to buy anything from him after that!!

[deathstalker]

Looking at it from a business side of things, AGD is a private company; therefore it is highly unlikely any competitors know their financial status. Conversely, AGD could close up shop in a heartbeat and the first you would know about it is when you can't log on to AO anymore.

As much as I hate to throw out the ever-popular, "Sue them!" phrase, rumors like this could damage AGD's business and if they can demonstrate that, their competitors could have a lawsuit on their hands. Granted, the lawyers would cost more than they're worth, so it's doubtful any legal action would be taken.

Good salespeople don't badmouth competitors' products; they talk about how their own products fit the customers' needs.

[skittlesRgood]

well all ur points are well taken, i was sceptical about that info too. as for the people making fun of my boss and me, the owner of national paintball's name is johnny. he visits our store and has told me a lot about paintball. also, he was selling me the guns at less than whole sale so he wasnt making any money off of me, so y lie? i just found out today that hes going to have bob long himself come to our store to talk to me about the guns. and i might be getting the 2k2 intimidator for $600 from johnny. but so that there are no hard feelings, my boss lives on BS, he lies about a lot and will go stongly with whatever he is told. as u said hes a sales man, thats his job. but thanx for the info everyone.

[skittlesRgood]

well to wrap this up im just gunna say that if national cant get me a mag then im gunna go for an impulse and a hpa tank. cant aford the mag when its full price but he impulse seems to be nice enouph. thanx again guys. cya

[Impuls]

The day AGD goes out of business is the day the Gardeners decide to let everybody build electros free of lawsuits Like that's ever gonna happen

[Tunaman]

jOHNNY?