What is the price of your soul??!!

[G-Rock]

First off Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, hope yours is as enjoyable as mine!!

Now some food for thought while you chew down the turkey and gravy today....

How much is your soul worth? Hopefully by now everyone knows of the Dynasty deal, and if not, what rock do you live under??

So, how much is it worth!! How valuable is loyalty compared to the allmighty dollar? Is leaving a valued sponsor or friends worth it for more money? What is your price?

What would be your price to support a company, to leave your current sponsors for their competitor? Does your personal feelings towards their products have a price, will you drop the gear you know adn trust your game to, to support another company? How much is it all worth to you?

For those of you that have no sponsors, what is the price for you to take and say nothing but good things about a product, no matter how it performs, or that companies business practices?

Secondly, what is your individual price to leave your team, the guys you played and bleed for, for another team, what reasons would you leave, and what price tag would you leave under?

I am not talking about just money value here either for both of these, there is alot of reasons to leave sponsors, and teams, for another, free entries, free paint, etc...

What is the price of your soul??

Chris Geiger

[mirthvader]

Hey, business is business. No souls involved. People gotta eat.

I don't agree with Smart Parts suing everyone but after a few years in any large business you need to get a little hard to survive.

[Bolter]

if you play on a team with no sponsorship, a free JT t-shirt is the coolest thing to happen all year. If you play for a team like Dynasty who could pretty much chose (with some talks of course) who's product they want to use. WDP have been very very good to them and although they have gone for a SP product (spits on floor) I'm sure they are extreemly grateful to WDP for all they have done and probably will still do for them.

I wouldn't leave my team mates and buddies for any amount of money.

[JKW]

This is a good topic! Although I would need to give it some thought before I could offer my answers to the questions asked, I would like to add that there are some changes taking place in the coming weeks that are very relevant to this post. Sponsorship changes almost as surpassing as Dynasty/Smart Parts, and manufacturer to retailer associations that people close to the business side of paintball would not have believed possible.
I am going to look forward to the answers given in this thread, and hope that it does not degenerate into a flame war.

[magman007]

listen, despite the deal being really crappy of dynasty to go over to SP, it is natuaral business progression. What happened was a bigleap for the PB industry. These guys are now, the true Professionals of paintball. They now make enough, to not need to Work, and they can actually live off of paintball.

This is a huge leap for the industry, and i wouldnt doubt we start seeing it happen more and more. This would be good

Now, i will admit, the way dynasty did it, wasnt very nice, but you know what, it was bound to happen. Are Sp guns better? Probabally not, alot of people will say they are tho.

So really, it sux that it happened, yet it doesnt in the same time

[abaez]

21 grams.

[Bucky]

$11.43 and not a penny less.

[JoyInTheMadness]

Well for Dynasty it's $75000 a marker...

[G-Rock]

Originally posted by JKW
This is a good topic!

Yeah somtimes my mind comes up with some good stuff for conversation, now if only I could do that on a date so I could sound smart to a woman!!

chris

[Bolter]

Yeah somtimes my mind comes up with some good stuff for conversation, now if only I could do that on a date so I could sound smart to a woman!!

lol!!

[BTAutoMag]

an xmag

[Wc Keep]

from playing many competitive sports i have learned that loyalty to ones teammates is the greatest thing. i am not in this for money. my teammates are the best teammates a guy can ask for.it is not easy to gain my loyalty but once you have ill back you til the end as long as you dont break my trust for something as stupid as a sponsorship. never should the almighty dollar be put before a brother.

going from one sponsor to another.........
i shoot an agd marker, i am getting a cocker in 2 weeks, after i get that cocker im getting another agd marker one month afterwards. agd has shown loyalty to me so i in some way or another am going to show loyalty to them.

[Rope a Dope]

[Halliday]

I show my loyalty to whomever shows it to me. If AGD sponsered me, and took care of me I'd do the same to them.

[Big_Chops]

my soul a fully hooked up angel speed. ahhhhhhh so nice