SYDARMS: You want it, now get it!!!

[lord1234]

dragon lady

DRAGON LADY BLOWING FIRE!~!!! go dragon lady!

[Doobie]

Got my 2 Sydarms today...
Trina----->
Doobie--->

Heheheh!

[DogHouseDan]

holster

For high quality holsters (including left handed models) go to:

http://www.cops911.com/

They make a great product and I have used it for well over a year.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

ummm...how many sydarms are left?

[Got_Paint]

As of 8:30 Pacific Standard Time there are 11 left and they are waiting on the next batch of 100 to complete the 200 order.

[TAW]

Got mine today

First impression: QC went to lunch when this body was inspected or AGD is cleaning out their blem inventory. It would of been better to blast finnish it to hide the uglys.

-There is what I would call vice marks on both sides of the body
-Grinder marks on the top tube just aft of where the balls drop down
-The tool to cut or de-bur the slot for the ball tensioner slipped and skipped down the side
-I saw it in the pic in the store but there is no rear sight but there is a front
-The Tac rail is just different, as in the finish matches nothing else you could buy

Took it out back and let my kids pop off a dozen 12g and it shoots just as well as any other mag on CO2.

[G3PB]

Back about 5 or 6 years ago, I used to carry two of these onto a field in a Chuck Norris "Delta Force" shoulder rig like he used for Micro-Uzi's......they were not exactly accurate shooting them that way but it was rather cool looking. However, since I always played with Jeremy from Jackal Machine, he was great at providing support fire if need be....and it usually was.

[ERut]

Man, considering these are a limited time offer, I'm almost tmepted to buy one and sell it in six months. I bet I could make a tidy profit!

[Magglerock]

Man, considering these are a limited time offer, I'm almost tmepted to buy one and sell it in six months. I bet I could make a tidy profit!

I'll bet you won't.

[Arawn]

I'll bet you won't.

Bet he won't buy one, sell it, or make a tidy profit on it?




B.

[Magglerock]

Bet he won't buy one, sell it, or make a tidy profit on it?




B.

All of the above. These things are paintball guns, not Renoirs. Your market is incredibaly small; its not like you can just throw it up on Ebay and have 100 bids. And now that they are making more, they will depreciate ever quicker. If you're hardcore AGD cultist and must have a side arm made by AGD (why you would want ANY side arm is hard to understand), then go ahead and buy one. But there are several sidearms out there in the same price range that perform much better, and several that are cheaper that perform just as well. You read what the office lady said; these things are de-tuned and not meant for the rigors or velocities of paintball.

A word about investments. An investment is only as good as the other investments you could have made. If you bought a sydarm five years ago for $500 and sold it yesterday for $550, you made a profit of under 10% (factoring inflation). Had you invested that $500 in you basic mixed bond or mixed fund, your return on that investment over the same period would have been roughly 35-40%. Like comic books, baseball cards, and other adult toys, buy them because you enjoy USING them, not because you think you're going to make money off of them. In most cases you won't, and even if you do, if your intent was to make money, you could have been doing many other things with that money that would have made you multiples of that profit. Paintball guns arn't investment vehicles.

[GrasshoppaLPhiE]

Actually, I saw a sydarm that sold (with a few extras like a cops911 holster and some 10 round tubes) for a little under 700. Not everyone knows about the new release. Also, while not everyone will appreciate a sydarm, or any sidearm, there are people who do, and there apparently is a nice little "cult following" for them if you consistently see them being sold in the 500-600 dollar range. Also, for a pistol that costs over $400, selling almost a hundred in its first week (let alone the first weekend) of release is quite a feat.

[Arawn]

That example aside, I'm still in agreement with the folks who state that buying a paintball gun as an "investment" against future resale is generally not the most prudent of courses.
You buy a book because you will enjoy reading it.
Buy a marker because you'll enjoy shooting it.


Later,
B.

[chasden]

Just got mine today!

[ERut]

At the beginning of the thread, people were complaining about buying a sydarm used for more than $425. Since this is a limited offer, and since I'm betting most of the people who just bought one aren't planning on selling it any time soon, I don't think there should be much of a drop in resale value.