Has negative public opinion hurt SP's sales?

[lather]

Since smart parts isnt exactly the most popular manufacturer lately, Im wondering if their bad publicity has affected thier sales. Anyone have any educated guesses on how well/poorly they are doing?

On a related note, does any company ever release their unit sales on a yearly basis for their markers? Its possible to track car sales from manufacturers yearly, but I havent ever seen any numbers on how many markers are sold.


Im curious on seeing hard numbers of how many Tippmans, Dm4s, Cockers, Mags, Imps etc are out there.

[AGD]

Thats a question I would like answered since the fate of the pantball world depends on it.

AGD

[Got_Paint]

I highly doubt it has even scathed them, it's only the on-line forum people who know about all this stuff, and they have thousands of sales...doubt it hurting them at all, especially from the money made by royalties.

[GoatBoy]

Well, the funny thing is, I've noticed a lot of people in these very AO forums have purchased SP guns/products since the whole debacle started, in full knowledge of what was going on.


I don't have any numbers, but I don't think SP is reeling in any way.

[afultz075]

Most SP owners I know are fully aware of the whole situation, but they're now starting to turn away from the company not because of that, but because all of their guns are constantly giving them trouble.

[teufelhunden]

I keep seeing new shockers, new imps, and i even saw a nerve...


sales can't be doing that bad at all.

[bokraham]

I will still buy some smart parts stuff, however I will not buy stuff of theirs that they plaster alot of logos on ie bottle covers, jersies. But I am proud to sport logos of AGD or NXe or something. oh yeah I also don't sport evil. For some reason the guys at my field are way anti evil. (peer pressure peer pressure peer pressure)

[MindJob]

People are a lot of talk when it comes to this whole Smart Parts thing....

Outside of the internet community there appears to be very little negative backlash against them. The only thing that can possibly affect public perception would be if some of the companies that SP sued would either team up or on their own launch some kind of ad compain. Judging the mentality of some paintball companies, i doubt cooperation of any kind would be possible. Not to mention no one really knows the details of any of these law suit settlements, OR of the licencing agreements.

Personally, I ditched my SP stuff. There are plenty of other options out there.

[shartley]

[Muzikman]

Well, rumor in the Latrobe area (where SP is at) is that they are building an entire new complex with even bigger facilities, fields, store, etc. So my guess is they are not doing too bad. But, we'll see what happens with the recent WDP ruling.

[slasherdan]

Hmmm...

Thats a question I would like answered since the fate of the pantball world depends on it.

AGD

And what would the fate be if SP was hurt? Just curious what you mean ....

I can understand how it would hurt, and I can see how it might help too ...

[Muzikman]

Slasher, he is talking about how SP is trying to rule the paintball world. If they succeed, it will put a lot of small companies out of business. Ie. "the fate of the paintball world"

[slasherdan]

Slasher, he is talking about how SP is trying to rule the paintball world. If they succeed, it will put a lot of small companies out of business. Ie. "the fate of the paintball world"

Then this will make you wanna puke .... Staged Elims, dancing chicks in jersy's .... I wanna know how many times they use the word patent in this thing. Funny seeing how the latest ruling basically said they don't own squat .... at least to my understanding ...

enjoy and be grossed out by the Hilters of paintball ..

http://furby.pbcproductions.com/smartparts.wmv

[_tMAN]

slasherdan - I want the last 7 minutes of my life back!

[slasherdan]

slasherdan - I want the last 7 minutes of my life back!

I'll try to get them back for you after I get mine!!