If the place you went to in Grande Prairie was Splatters Paintball (Canadian Airsoft for their airsoft section) I wouldn't really trust them. I was recently ripped off by them for 3 springers.
They have them shown on their online store with hopup tags and priced the same as all the other Canadian Airsoft retailers (about $100). I emailed them and was impressed at the fast reply.
They informed me that they had the 3 springers I was looking for and that they were on sale for only 69.95!
I asked them about shipping and was told that they could do a COD, but not DD, so I set up COD shipment by Greyhound with them. I asked how much shipping should be, and was told a mere $10, which I really should have questioned, but I was already impressed by their service, so I didn't.
Our package arrived at the depot with over $50 of shipping charges for a COD (which was more what I'd expected, though I was still irritated that they had not told me the truth, though they hadn't directly lied to me.) I looked at the store's bill that was enclosed in the box, I found that they'd charged me an additional $10 for shipping! That was what they meant that shipping would be $10!
After opening the boxes of the springer we found them all coated in a thin layer of grey dust -alright, so they've sat in their storage area for a while... I work at a store and things sit there too.
I ordered a TM PC 356 springer from them, and when I pulled it out of the box, I was dismayed to find that the shiny-painted surface of the ejection port was scratched to shit. This springer had clearly seen some use. I decided that this was the reason for the price drop, and figured that a little cosmetic damage wasn't that big a deal for springer matches, if they'd used the springer a bit in their store.
I broke down the springer (a nice feature of some TM springers) and found that the tip of the cylinder nozzle (some people call it the nipple) was severely worn, to the point that the part that's supposed to be a round tube sticking out of the cylinder, was worn down to 45 degrees! This was the same with the M9 springer that we ordered, and would assume it to be the same for the P7 springer, but it cannot be taken down.
Upon further inspection, I noticed that the springer had no copper barrel, as all hopup models should have. The springers had no hopup!
All told, we thought we were getting a deal, but for 69.95 each, with no hopup and the springers being severely used and $60 tacked on for total shipping charges, we were had.
When you order something from an online retailer, particularily an airsoft retailer, unless it's noted, you should be able to assume that you're getting new stuff. Their site didn't specifically say that the springers didn't have hopup, but the fact that they had hopup tags in the pictures of the ones they sold was more than misleading.
Between all that and the finely printed "All sales final, etc." (the usual reciept disclaimer) and the fact that they hadn't so much directly lied to me as made a point of leaving out certain details, I knew there was no point in calling and complaining; their asses are covered.
After all taxes and shipping totalled up, the price for 3 $69.95 springers and a $30 tactical holster was close to $330 -almost the same as it all would have cost from any other retailer with them in stock new and with hopup!
If you can go there in person, you can check the stuff their selling you out yourself, and they can't rip you off for shipping, but I wouldn't reccomend taking anything said for granted. If you decide to deal with them, ask plenty of questions, and ask to see things before you pay for them.
If a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.
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