The ION and its effect on resale....

[punkncat]

I have been looking, through the classifieds and have noticed that the introduction of this marker has completly gutted resale on most everything. Its really quite amazing how good a price you can pick up some GREAT past year models right now.

Its like everyone has caught this bug to get the Ion, and to come up with the $300 they need are willing to loose insane amounts of money selling great(high end) gear to get one. I realize that it is a great price on an entry level tourney marker, but people are acting like this thing is made of gold and the best thing available.

On the other hand you have every noob in paintball trying to get what they paid out of their entry level markers to "upgrade" to the Ion. Asking $300 for Tippys and Spyder packages, etc....

It will be nice when after a minute the new wears off, people take off their blinders and really start recognizing what they are getting into. Hopefully they will stop gutting the market and hurting EVERYONE with these low resale prices, or taking up space asking rediculous prices for stuff that isn't worth it....

[TeamNausea]

Good gun GREAT price. But i do hope that it dosent hurt resale for long

[WingMan13]

Yep, I saw this coming. If other companies follow SP with a "cheap, high end, saturday night special" we are gonna see some big changes in the resale game. Hell, think about how much a used ION would go for!

[TeamNausea]

Well but that would lead to better guns at low-end prices so other then resale its a very good thing to the consumers and that is too if they are looking used

[punkncat]

I can't say that its not feature packed at a great price, but to say that its a good gun really remains to be seen.

I just feel like for all they are offering there has to be some issue with lasting quality, dependability over time, something. I know that the lowered milling/build cost makes a good deal of the difference, but the saying "you get what you pay for" is true time and time again. I just don't see these things holding up long. And really, due to what they are doing to my investments in paintball, I hope they don't.

[BeaverEater]

When all the electric, cheap spyders/clones came out, resale was hurt for a little while also but that changed right away.

[Miscue]

I have a feeling we're going to see more markers that are very good at this price range. And they will continue to get better. Little incentive to get something more expensive unless you want to piss away money on the "cool" expensive gun of the week. Retailers will love this marker - making good profit margin.

[teufelhunden]

Punk: You're still paying three hundred dollars for a machine to shoot little balls of paint. It's not like you're paying $45.. I believe that at the Ion's price it's perfectly reasonable to think that it will be a quality gun.

[Miscue]

When all the electric, cheap spyders/clones came out, resale was hurt for a little while also but that changed right away.

The cheap clones are going to be hurting a bit, with these quality budget markers.

[tony3]

Old school timmys=the way to go, get a fully uped 2k2 for 600 bucks, I love low resale when I never got a brand new gun to start with.

[Pyroboy597]

I think in the months to come the ION will impact paintball and make everything cheaper. All the other companies are seeing Smart Part's success and are probably in the process of making their own ION like guns. The prices on all guns are going to drop because people wont want to spend 1400 dollars wen they know they can get a great g un for only 300. Givin time, i think prices on everything will drop by atleast 10%.

[Miscue]

I think in the months to come the ION will impact paintball and make everything cheaper. All the other companies are seeing Smart Part's success and are probably in the process of making their own ION like guns. The prices on all guns are going to drop because people wont want to spend 1400 dollars wen they know they can get a great g un for only 300. Givin time, i think prices on everything will drop by atleast 10%.

I think we're always going to have the ridiculously expensive stuff - you're paying for mill work and the psychological advantage. But I think what's going to happen is, there's going to eventually be little distinction between a $300 marker and a $1400 marker as far as performance goes.

[JimmyBeam]

OMG stop crying and suck it up. SO your going to have to eat the cost of a marker you paid too much for. The Ion is a very nice marker, and the 300 dolalr price tag makes it even better.

[Glickman]

OMG stop crying and suck it up. SO your going to have to eat the cost of a marker you paid too much for. The Ion is a very nice marker, and the 300 dolalr price tag makes it even better.

haha yea.


maybe some people plan to keep it past a year. i do. hell, im getting another one. i plan on keeping it till they hit their 100,000 mile mark.



bye bye shocker and matrix, hello ion twins

[Pyroboy597]

Question, Are they really THAT good? im just curious