Shunning Smart Parts

[doc_Zox]

Considering that SP buys at least 6 full page ads in every PB magazine, i doubt any paintball magazine editor is going to publish anything controversial.

The biggest mention in PB2X so far was one sentence mentioning the "Smart Parts issue".

SP is heavily invested in promotion and we know their books are balanced on forecasted sales. Really lousy spring sales for SP will cause an attitude shift.

Making the delivery of the pain personal takes effort.
Refusing to play a SP owner would take intestinal fortitude.

"'If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out"

To you nay sayers:

Pony up something other than negative waves.

[tony3]

doc I really suggest you stop talking. If anything SP springs sales will go up with the release of the 2k3 shocker, and maybe the nerve. Oh wait, they also got dynasty using their guns which will only boost sales more.

[doc_Zox]

Tony, yer a 14 year old child

isn't bed time?

Santa's watching

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

lol tony...by any chance do you shoot a impulse or a shocker?

[LaW]

I agree with tony's comments. Smart parts is doing what some people will call smart business. This has happend many times in different industries. For the most part we will not feel a huge affect from all this. Most of these small companies will pay the loyalties and it the affect will not be seen by most of us. In a lot of big industries you dont find a lot of big name, small companies ... they exist but they do pay up to some bigger company. Smart parts is smartly moving in that direction at the moment and will continue to grow to the likes of Kingman, or brass eagle to be one of the top paintball companies. They will most likely never go after kingman or other large marker companies because they would lose too much money doing so. Give me a break with this "Die smart parts die" mindset

Just my .02's

Oh yeah and Doc... Tony may be a "14 year old child" but his short post actually speaks some truth

[NoJoyPunk]

Originally posted by doc_Zox
refuse to play anyone using a SP marker

make it personal

Stores react to picket lines

make selling SP product unprofitable and SP will back off

Picket lines arent as effective as you might think. I been holding a picket sign in the grocery strike for three months. Money talks, even if store or field owners disagree with Smart Parts law suits they most likely wont boycott their products. Plus there are always gonna be people saying companies like ICD and AKA are getting whats coming to them. I am firm in the belief that AKA will win, but if they dont you gotta think who's next? What group of loyal gun owners are they gonna upset next? Will they do anything about it? Probably not. But this was bound to happen sooner or later. Long live inovative companies such as AKA, WGP, WDP, and AGD.

[barberjohn]

hey NoJoy, WELCOME TO AO!!! i just had to do that.

[Xyxyll]

Originally posted by LaW
I agree with tony's comments. Smart parts is doing what some people will call smart business. This has happend many times in different industries. For the most part we will not feel a huge affect from all this. Most of these small companies will pay the loyalties and it the affect will not be seen by most of us. In a lot of big industries you dont find a lot of big name, small companies ... they exist but they do pay up to some bigger company. Smart parts is smartly moving in that direction at the moment and will continue to grow to the likes of Kingman, or brass eagle to be one of the top paintball companies. They will most likely never go after kingman or other large marker companies because they would lose too much money doing so. Give me a break with this "Die smart parts die" mindset

Just my .02's

Oh yeah and Doc... Tony may be a "14 year old child" but his short post actually speaks some truth

It's smart unethical business. This industry is too small and the consumers are too close friendship-wise to several manufacturers that this should go on. Plus, Smart Parts shouldn't even own that patent. So this bullcrap should all really be null! Here ya go: Die smart parts die

It was only a matter of time before the SP die-hards showed up in here.

[tony3]

Originally posted by doc_Zox
Tony, yer a 14 year old child

isn't bed time?

Santa's watching

And I still have realistic ideas, know more then you. Doc maybe its timed to grow up and just accept what sp is doing? Or are we going to still keep crying?

Also snyper, I own an impulse, and a 2k shocker. And yes, I have owned a mag and a cocker. So I'm not biased at all. Yes I really liked my mag also.

[Eric Cartman]

It's smart unethical business.

That's it right there, and that should mean something. Sadly the apathy of the average consumer means that it probably won't mean anything in the long run. I'll still try to spread the word everywhere I go that what Sp is doing is WRONG no matter how you slice it.

[Gabriel]

Originally posted by LaW
I agree with tony's comments. Smart parts is doing what some people will call smart business. This has happend many times in different industries. For the most part we will not feel a huge affect from all this. Most of these small companies will pay the loyalties and it the affect will not be seen by most of us. In a lot of big industries you dont find a lot of big name, small companies ... they exist but they do pay up to some bigger company. Smart parts is smartly moving in that direction at the moment and will continue to grow to the likes of Kingman, or brass eagle to be one of the top paintball companies. They will most likely never go after kingman or other large marker companies because they would lose too much money doing so. Give me a break with this "Die smart parts die" mindset

Just my .02's

Oh yeah and Doc... Tony may be a "14 year old child" but his short post actually speaks some truth

Smart Parts isn't being 'smart' by going in this direction, they are being greedy and detrimental to the sport. More over, they will never go after kingman because they legally cannot go after kingman. Kingman is a Taiwanese firm, and can avoid having to pay any of the fees to smart parts by simply no longer importing to america. American patents don't hold true any where but in America.

And tony's threads don't speak truth, they speak baby language.

[tony3]

yeah, my threads

[Gabriel]

I was just giving you a hard time dude. A little friendly rubbing on the young kid

[NoJoyPunk]

Originally posted by barberjohn
hey NoJoy, WELCOME TO AO!!! i just had to do that.

Thank you. Good to be here.

[LaW]

Originally posted by Xyxyll


It's smart unethical business. This industry is too small and the consumers are too close friendship-wise to several manufacturers that this should go on. Plus, Smart Parts shouldn't even own that patent. So this bullcrap should all really be null! Here ya go: Die smart parts die

It was only a matter of time before the SP die-hards showed up in here.

So paintball will never grow into big business? It is better to keep these "close friendships" then to expand and grow the industry!...

I am not at all an SP die-hard, give me any other company that does this and I would say the same thing. Lets all boycott brass eagle then because they took over JT and Viewloader. Sure they bought them out, but they did it to grow their company. Hopefully this extra revenue that smart parts brings in will help improve the sport who knows. That is not what I am saying is going to happen.

All I see are people that want paintball to grow, but get made when the way the industry is growing is not the way they invisioned it. Add that to the already underlining hatred that people have for smart parts, along with the thousands of mindless sheep that follow what the rest of the flock thinks... Its not a suprise people react this way but I just think its silly for them to do this. We can argue our opinions back and forth and thats all they will ever be so give me a break.