Money Issues!

[Iron Mag13]

Well im 13 going on 14 this july and need some money for a mag, i was thinking a devilmag, but honestly dont know. and i have aobut 200 in bank and i need more money. I live in Il. and if there are any people out there who are/was in the same situation and some how got out of it plz give me some ideas on how to earn some cash. I dont really get alot of money for my birthday and i dont mow the lawn(sucks) so i need some ideas.

Thanks Iron

[yaddatrance]

First, get your parents buy in on the idea of you earning money.
Then Buy'n sell on ebay Buy at the end of the month
and sell near the middle. (If you coincide with people's rent,
you can pick some nice deals up)

[Iron Mag13]

so just buy things off e-bay and then sell them again??
didnt get wat u saying really.

[silentdeath55]

I think everyone who plays paintball when they are your age has this some issue. unless they are the rich spoiled kid we all know and dispise. My tip to you is to slowely earn as much as you can, and buy a gun in your price range. Then play when you get money for paint. There really isn't much you can do with out a job, so look for one of those, that's what I did.

[Iron Mag13]

im 13 years old i dont think i can get a job...........hey yaddatrance my freind has a tippman 98 with co2, flatline, and revy he said i could have it for 170, and if i denied the offer he would sell it on ebay, so u saying i buy it then sell it?

[FreakBaller12]

ump!
dude i umped last year(i was 14) and am 15 now. I umped 32 softball/basbeall gamees, with like 3rd, 4th, 5th graders and i earned 500 dollars, which is how i payed for mosyt of my emag

[CaliMagFan]

dude... work is work....it just plain sux for most of us and at 13 you dont have much choice as to where you work and how you earn your $$$... i would suggest that you take every chance you can get to earn money... the other thing is that you are going to have to spend money on paint, air and field fee (if applicable). now i'm not trying to dissuade you from gettting going on paintball... its just that, damn this is an expensive sport...

i started playing at about 14, which is before i had my first job... my combinaiton was to play a lot of woodsball, shoot a spyder compact and play inexpensively... i know you want a mag, who doesnt, but when you are strapped for cash, and the mag that you might get probably isnt going to be the last marker you ever buy, you should MAYBE settle for something less... after all a spyder shoots just as well as a mag for the most part.

sincerely, i wish you the best of luck and i think you should troll the B/S/T forums here... people are always letting classics and the like go for relatively cheap... that wasy you wont have to clean you bank account before you hit the field.

-kyro

[abunkerer]

mow your neighbor's lawns, if you get 5 lawns a week at 20$ each thant 400$ a month....It's an easy way to make money. I did it when I was your age and I made lots of $$, plus I got some good connections along the way. When you get a few regular customers, they will see that you are a responsible hard worker they will give you other jobs, and refer you to other people = more$$

[GT]

my advice is get a tippy/spyder/classic mag setup for around 200. play with that for 2 years and when you turn 16 then buy something real nice.

The best thing you can do for paintball right now is keep you nose in the books and prepare for college.

[dwab3000]

well since you dont mow lawns, you should start..
find your nearest offbase military housing...go to places like cheifs housing and such. ask them to mow their law. thats how i earend money as a kid, and thats how my roomies kid (12,younger than you) earns money, he now plays with an e-cocker from that

[Iron Mag13]

Well i could ump but i dont know much of teh rules of baseball and i guess mowing lawns is ok but evryone around here are rich(i live in a good nebiorhood) and i dont think they would want me to but i guess ill try. My freind told me to buy a fish tank and bread fish and then sell them but i dont know much about fish and **** like taht..... i also live by a near paintball feild and i could ask them if i could ref, but i dont really know.

[tony3]

I have a hard time supporting paintball and I'm 15....then again I try to play everyweekend.....I umped baseball from when I was 12 to 14, it was decent, 20 bucks a game for me, but with the large amounts of umpires I'd only get about 10-15 games a season. 300 bucks is good, but not nearly enough to support myself for paintball. I'm trying to find a real job this summer but not being 16 is having its problems getting jobs. Mowing lawns and reffing/umping sports is definitely the best way to make money for kids under 16. I have also started buying cheap gear and selling it for more. Or buying broken gear, fixing it and selling it for more. Hang in there, it sucks not being able to get a job.

[Iron Mag13]

yes i know what u mean lol. but do i really have to know all the rules to be an ump??

[dwab3000]

hey like i said...military housing...worked for me

and if that dont work...buy something cheap to hold you over like an 04 bko

then save build people markers (with hard to find parts) and then sell it to them for a bit more..but not too mcuh

i do that alot locally

[Gauntlet]

I'm 14. No job or anything. But when Christmas rolled over, about 300 came. With that I began a buy/sell operation. I bought cheap, sold for more than I bought it for. Like an Ebay Powerseller. Eventually I ended up with a pretty darn good mag, and the money is still rolling in.