Will (decent) paint prices ever fall?

[Zumina]

Honestly. Gun, clothing, accessory, and host of other prices have fallen CONSIDERABLY in the past 4 years. Yet decent paint prices remain the same, despite the entry of dozens of new producers.

[Brophog]

Nope.

Your only making 10-15% on most of the markers as it is. If paint were to go down, the prices of the other stuff would have to go up for any business to survive.

[tony3]

Paint really isn't that expensive anymore. I mean, you can get seconds for 30 bucks a box. That is really cheap, thats like 1.5 cents a ball, thats insanely low, back in the day what was it, a quarter a ball? This old field by me had an old sign of prices, 4 10 rd. tubes, a rental, and lunch was 30 bucks, and this was back in the late 80's, early 90's.

[hAppy]

are these second boxes good enough to use?
and where do you find these?

[NoFearPaintballer]

i think everything will rise in price once paintball gets flooded well maybe not crappy stuff but stuff like good paint (evil) good guns (mags trix) will rise but timmys and angels will decrease only because of the mass production then they will have their downfall and somehting else will come to rise. but with te SP patent things should stay where they are

[abrewin450]

I use Zap Rec Ball from an Academy store near me. It isnt great paint, but it shoots and doesn't chop easily and that is perfect for the way I play. It costs me $30 a case and that will sometimes last me for two weekends. So thats only 15 dollars a week for paint and for me its only like 3 dollars for air fills off of our scubas. Sometimes you will get bad bags of paint, but the people at Academy are nice enough to let me open the boxes and examine the paint before I buy a case. I've also tried a bulk paint special from www.firstcallpaintball.com and that paint worked well for me. I got four cases originally and then 2 cases were busted so they sent me 2 more cases. I cleaned the busted paint and ended up with 6 cases for like $120. So what Im trying to say is that if you are cheap like me, then there are definately ways to play paintball while keeping your budget in mind.

[Skoad]

Store back home has paint that they call "Stinger." It came in an RPS box. A friend and I shot it this weekend me with my dm4 and him with his cocker. Worked great and was only $40 a case.

[RetroEclipseMan]

Paint prices have dropped a lot since I first started playing like 5 years ago. I remember when people were paying over $120 a case for Marbalizer. Now you can find it for less than $60 a case.

[Halliday]

Why would the paint prices go down? There are more and more people playing and buying paint.

[Lohman446]

I am not complaining about current prices. It is still a relatively cheap hobby compared to some others.

However, paint prices will drop a bit more as we go. Colors went to field paint only, and dropped premium paint to $47 a case for one of the better Kick'n brand in a field paint color. For those that don't know what Kick'n is I would take it over any other paint I have tried recently (and for awhile I was shooting only marbs and evil).

Now, let me contradict myself, maybe it won't go down more but I expect to see it not rise more as inflation does.

[tasker89]

The sport has to generate $$ to survive. Paint is WAY cheap nowadays...I remember working two and three jobs in high school so I could afford to play every weekend. You can buy 2 cases of quality paint for what us "old school" guys used to pay for half a case.

[soccer4minimags]

I think its a problem in different regions of the country. yeah you can get paint cheap online but you always risk it not being fresh, breaking, etc. plus you have ot pay shipping on most sites. Now yes, some sites garuntee their paint, But thats not the point. If you ordered paint for the weekend and friday afternoon when it arrives and its broken that paint garuntee ani't going to mean jack.

The problem is paintball is more poplular in certain areas, so there is more competition between the fields so they have to lower paint prices, ex. california. But for example here, there isn't that many places, so they know people are willing to pay 60 plus a case just cause they really aren't going anywhere else if they want it that bad. They have found the market equilibrium right around that price. There isn't enough ballers to support more business, and they have the ones that are here in a hold.

[trains are bad]

For those that don't know what Kick'n is I would take it over any other paint I have tried recently

We played a tourney at intense in canton a month or so ago and they had Kick'n, and the cheap grade of it was the best paint I've shot in a long time. Super brittle (breaks if you drop it) and fies straight.

[magnj]

I ordered the Zap Seconds once and it was damn good for the thirty somehting dollars shipped that i paid. Good cheap paints: Viper, Whitebox, Bigball

[RoadDawg]

Originally posted by RetroEclipseMan
Paint prices have dropped a lot since I first started playing like 5 years ago. I remember when people were paying over $120 a case for Marbalizer. Now you can find it for less than $60 a case.

Unfortunatly some places are still that bad. Last time I played in Salt Lake City, UT it was around a $100 for a case of PMI premiums (field paint only). To me that is outrageous and I can see why the fields aren't bringing much in the way of money in. I for one don't see prices coming down cause that is the "money maker" item.