Paintballers organizing against Smart Parts

[$tevo]

theres no point in this guys. they do have the right to patent their stuff. its a pretty crappy thing to do but they did it, its over with. just think of it this way, its forcing companies to do R&D and we will get an all new design of marker out of it(maybe).

and you cant say that SP doesnt make good products, cause they do, and we all know it

[Tapper]

Originally posted by billmi


I really, really, really, doubt it.

http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tiplj/volumes/vol10iss1/steinman.html

http://www.gbpatent.com/cases/xnobelpharma.htm

[Ov3rmind]

i have hax

[Butterfingers]

Originally posted by $tevo
theres no point in this guys. they do have the right to patent their stuff. its a pretty crappy thing to do but they did it, its over with. just think of it this way, its forcing companies to do R&D and we will get an all new design of marker out of it(maybe).

and you cant say that SP doesnt make good products, cause they do, and we all know it

Just to set the record staight they didnt patent it they STOLE it from the industry through a loophole.

http://www.icedillusions.com/Anti-SP.html

[Octavian]

against smart parts

in regards to the sp lawsuit and witch hunt .... wh y not demonstrate at smart parts regional centers.. or simply not buy and of their product......

[SN toter]

tourny sit-ins at their booths...better believe I'll be there at the IAO with my fuc# smart parts shirt sittin right smack in front of their booth. get 20-30 folks and no one can get to the booth.

[shartley]

[50 cal]

^^^^^^^^

Exactly. If the event is held on private property, you may be arrested or told to leave. You can't demonstrate on private property. You can, but the land owner has the right to have you arrested for trespassing.

You can probably get away with a few people in front of the SP booth with some small sign or t-shirt on.

[Crimson_Turkey]

The nazi signs will destory credibility as well. Better to use an interenations no sign over thier logo.

[personman]

Originally posted by $tevo
and you cant say that SP doesnt make good products, cause they do, and we all know it

That is your oppinion. I used to own a 14" AA barrel. It was the worst barrel I've ever owned. I bought it brand new for $90 and within a few weeks of use I sold it for $50. My friend has an Impulse, and this may be my oppinion but honestly I would never want to own a gun like that. Its big, heavy, ugly, and slow. I owned a freak for a while and it was also very low quality. I dont like how Smart Parts is very slowly forcing their horrible products upon us. Sooner or later they are going to make a pattent on a metal tube claiming that their ancestors 1000 years ago created the first one or some BS like that.

[Rigster_TBB]

Smart Parts does indeed make excellent products. I own an Impulse (Bone Stock) and it is the finest marker I have ever owned (and Iv'e owned quite a few). My buddy just bought a brand new ANS GX-4. Those things retailed for close to $800-900 when they first came out. They have dropped down a good deal in price. It is a SWEEET marker and smooth as butter. He couldn't wait to rub it in because he had a nicer marker than me (it's a old guy vs. young guy thing you know). Anyway, I shot the GX4 (very nice indeed). But I told him to pick up my Imp and rip a string out on it. His jaw dropped and his exact words were "Wow..." Fact of the matter is, Smart Parts makes goooood stuff. I have been a product designer for years. Everything I have ever looked at with the SP name on it has been top notch and well worth the asking price. I can't say that about other stuff I have owned. I of course do not want to see SP hurt any company and I hope everyone involved can reach a settlement and go about their way. If not, that's tuff, that's life, that's a capitilist economy. Look, places like Wal-mart, K-mart, Lowes, Home Depot have hurt more small businesses that 100 Smart Parts put together. Who knows what great invention one of them would have made down the road if they were still in business. Life is far to short and painfull as it is for Paintballers to get all worked up with each other over something like this. Let the business guys fight it out. There will always be fine markers to shoot, I really don't care who's name is on the side of it...
Rigster...
(excuse any spelling errors, It's been a long day)

[Z-man]

Wouldn't a better and more civil form of boycott (besides the obvious "not-buying-SP-stuff" aspect) be to have a unified logo used that you can put on t-shirts / other apparel and stickers?

I don't know who made it but that little animated Gif of the SP logo morphing into the Nazi sign was trick. Course that IS an iffy thing to put on a shirt as someone glancing at it could take it VERY wrong....

Still the point stands. Everyone likes sporting clothing that says something that want said and it makes for a perfect in-point in telling others.

[ZAust]

Originally posted by Z-man
Wouldn't a better and more civil form of boycott (besides the obvious "not-buying-SP-stuff" aspect) be to have a unified logo used that you can put on t-shirts / other apparel and stickers?

I don't know who made it but that little animated Gif of the SP logo morphing into the Nazi sign was trick. Course that IS an iffy thing to put on a shirt as someone glancing at it could take it VERY wrong....

Still the point stands. Everyone likes sporting clothing that says something that want said and it makes for a perfect in-point in telling others.

just as long as its not iron-ons that fade completely after a couple washings.

[Z-man]

oh crap they did? $%$%^#$%%^&^%# I am sorry to hear that. Mine still works fine.....

Giess I wont be doing that next year..

[Miscue]

Originally posted by ZAust


just as long as its not iron-ons that fade completely after a couple washings.

Couple? Mine only lasted once! Oh well.