The ION and its effect on resale....

[Conversekidz]

This is how I see the ion in the market.

Yes the ion is cheap, and yes their will still be high end markets, and its like this.


The ion is the corvette of the car world, its a high performance car/gun for the money.

Freestyles on up to egos and cyborgs are the lambo's and ferrari's of the world.


Now if you follow the car world you will know that the corvette has the same, and sometimes better performance than the exotic cars of the world. Compare a ferarri mondenia to a corvette with reguards to performance you will see the corvette is just as good, if not better of a car.

Now the corvette costs 80k the ferrari costs 250k.....


Now I ask you, if you have the money which car would you want? they both perform that same....most people will say Ferrari, they want the image it gives, and doesnt' care so much if it only performs as well as the corvette.


I think the same is going to happen to the ion. Everyone and their mother is going to have one, its going to be the next spyder. People still want to be individual and stand out from the crowd. People are still going to buy cyborgs, egos and other high end markers because of the simple reason THEY CAN.

[Blazestorm]

Ion's are awesome, I got to try one out this weekend.

It fired one shot then stopped working... yay...

[Conversekidz]

Ion's are awesome, I got to try one out this weekend.

It fired one shot then stopped working... yay...

sorry to hear that....


but the first thing when I saw that I started laughing....

sorry bro...

[JimmyBeam]

T like this.


The ion is the corvette of the car world, its a high performance car/gun for the money.

I was thinking more of an NSX but whatever.....

[Baby Huey]

I was thinking more of an NSX but whatever.....

The NXS is one bad a** car.

[p u r e e v i l]

Welp..

Ultimately, it'll hurt the paintball industry if things continue to go the way they are. Low resale means manufacturers would have to decrease the original prices to make people want their guns... less profit, loss of jobs, etc. Sound about right?

[Conversekidz]

I was thinking more of an NSX but whatever.....

My annology is better with the corvette. The NSX doesn't have the same perfomance numbers and doesn't hold its own against most exotics.

[zzbudzz]

Buy something because you want to use it, not because you want to sell it later on.

yes , buy what you want and don't worry about resale.because it seems like you can never get close to what you paid for stuff nowadays...

[Lohman446]

Ultimately, it'll hurt the paintball industry if things continue to go the way they are. Low resale means manufacturers would have to decrease the original prices to make people want their guns... less profit, loss of jobs, etc. Sound about right?

Or... less cost, more participants, more sales, more need for production, more jobs, more profit. More units sold but less profit per unit can still be more profitable.

Pricing is a tricky issue, theres a balance somewhere but it could go either way.

[JimmyBeam]

My annology is better with the corvette. The NSX doesn't have the same perfomance numbers and doesn't hold its own against most exotics.

omg what??? you may now go wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such dirty lies!!! LIES I TELL YOU LIES!!!!


heh

[Raven001]

My point is, SP has to be disappointed with the Nerve sales... so they have gone an entire differetn direction. Why did the Nerve sales suck so much? I don't know. I am sure many people at SP want to compain that it was stupid paintball players fault, but rather than complaining... they did something revolutionary (for them).

Is that a dig at a particular paintball company?

[Lohman446]

Is that a dig at a particular paintball company?

That was an observation and it may have been targetted

It doesn't matter whose fault a lack of sales was. It is not the players that can make the changes that will sell more markers. You can complain about why something isn't selling all you want. You can point out, through hordes of testing and statistics that they are wrong. Unless you address why you are not selling in the marketplace and change with it it does you no good. If I am selling something and it is not selling... it is far more effective to change then it is to convince the buying public to change, especially if my trying to convince them involves minimal marketing and exposure. Can you change the market - sure, with enough marketing you can, its been done before, but if you are not going to market, then you better change to suit the market that exists,and quickly ebfore it changes. At least if sales is one of your top goals. Some companies exist to exist, to serve a niche market, to bring about higher quality, better thought. By all means thats fine, but don't do that and complain that the majority of the market is ignorant.. thats true in most markets.

[Conversekidz]

omg what??? you may now go wash your mouth out with soap for speaking such dirty lies!!! LIES I TELL YOU LIES!!!!


heh

Show me track numbers of the corvette getting walked all over by the NSX and i will take back my statement.

Better yet, match the NSX up against a 2005 Z06 and see who comes out on performance and cost.

[Lohman446]

Show me track numbers of the corvette getting walked all over by the NSX and i will take back my statement.

Better yet, match the NSX up against a 2005 Z06 and see who comes out on performance and cost.

Open road coarse involving lots of slaloms and very few straightaways? Switchbacks perhaps? The NSX is an awesome sports car, it may have some HP issues but its torque is good and its cornering very impressive

[Conversekidz]

NSX is over rated for the price.

The numbers I have been reading on the NSX give it a skid pad rating of .92 G's which don't get me wrong is a great number for handling.

The corvette is pulling a .98 G's on the pad, and it has almost double the HP and costs almost half the price.

The NSX gets worse gas millage at a 17/24 compared to the vettes 18/28

The NSX costs 89,000

the Vette costs 45,000

Now tell me how the NSX is a better car?

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