More guns than ever

[Donster]

Originally Posted by surebet

I wasn't going to say anything either, but damn, prices are coming down to the levels Rangers stocked guns way back when in 2004 and 2005.

The thing I like most about this whole thing? You really need to get age verified now to buy stuff. Haha, burn in hell you underaged bastards!

+1 on the age verification. how can one describe age verification? well remember that scene in the first Indianna Jones Movie where they open the Ark of the Covenant and everything just goes to complete shit? Now picture the polar opposite of that, and than you are only halfway there.

[matt491]

Originally Posted by Arthraxis

Yes, so we shouldn't let ANYONE new come into our sport EVER again.

Clearly, that was not what I said.

Originally Posted by kalnaren

Yea, my accountant is going to hate me in the near future if this keeps up. Or at least he would if I had an accountant.

I sold mine to purchase my last airsoft gun

[Azathoth]

Originally Posted by kalnaren

Well, now that A&A's inflated prices aren't being used as the bar anymore, and with Shootsoft bringing in good stuff at competative prices...

Yea, my accountant is going to hate me in the near future if this keeps up. Or at least he would if I had an accountant.

I can be your accountant

If only the importation laws could change a wee bit

[Brian McIlmoyle]

Originally Posted by DONSTER 125

but there must be secrets. those "special individuals" that you were referring to should remain anonymous for the safety of them, their business and the community. i really think that by starting this thread, it was a really bad idea. within verified threads only, is a different, but in this way, everyone can see it.

this is a public forum.. I know of at least 2 members of the RCMP who are verified members... I'm sure there are more... This forum and everything that is on it is not out of the eyes of anyone who may be interested.

Fact is I doubt anyone is...

[The Saint]

Originally Posted by DONSTER 125

+1 on the age verification. how can one describe age verification? well remember that scene in the first Indianna Jones Movie where they open the Ark of the Covenant and everything just goes to complete shit? Now picture the polar opposite of that, and than you are only halfway there.

Huh. Never heard of anything being described that way. That's pretty interesting.

[Viperfish]

Originally Posted by matt491

But for every one good person who joins the sport, 3 annoying, underaged noobs who are incapable of using google try to join.

you have no idea how true that is, every fuc|<ing day at work i get prolly 10-20 kids coming into the store asking for airsoft stuff and how they want to play in the woods with there friends and stuff....i quickly shut them up by jamming overpriced paint ball stuff in there faces....

damn kids..

[arman]

Originally Posted by ColtFarmer

i noticed it but didnt wanna say anything lest i jinx it =)

tats what i was thinking...

[BBS]

Originally Posted by Brian McIlmoyle

Anyone noticed how there seems to be more guns available at better prices than ever now?

since the collapse of the retail market.. seems like quite a number of independant small volume sellers have stepped up.

I love a free market... but my cash flow hates it....

Happy buying everyone!!

yep but IMHO i really would like them importing quality stuff again KSC, TM, CA, WA to up the quality of the market not some WELL stuff ( no offense to anyone here, since i realized this is what the current market wants). You can diversify the market with high end and low end stuff but please dont just bring in low to mid end guns. JGs are ok though...The good thing is you can preorder guns you dont see listed for sale (just be careful...don't want to end up like some preorders at the AEG section...).

[Crunchmeister]

To me, these low prices we're seeing with these small dealers just seems to prove the big guys were just greedy fucks taking advantage of the shortage of guns to jack their prices by ridiculous amounts on a regular basis. I never bought that "but the license is expensive" bullshit then, and even less now. If a license is $2000 / year, at the prices the big guys sell them for, they'd have to sell about 10 guns to recover that cost. With the rabid demand for guns in Canada, that would take 1 day at most.

If the small guys can import veyr limited quantities of guns and sell them for about 30% less than the big guys and still turn a profit, then it just shows that the big guys who had large orders (therefore lower per-unit cost) were just gouging us for everything they could. The prices we see on Redwolf, UNC, etc that we would KILL to pay for guns, these guys gor for even less. I don't care how much people want to suck the retailers' asses and defend them and their regular price hikes. They were gouging us plain and simple.

As for quality guns, shootsoft has CA and TM now. In the past few weeks, there have been plenty of new TM & WA guns posted in the classifieds by these small dealers. And really, JG isn't as far removed from TM in terms of quality than many people make them out to be. And at the price they sell for compared to TM (even compared to JG that A&A used to sell), they're a really good bargain.

[RacingManiac]

I hope someone will venture out into bringing other stuff in, like MBK for 1911.....

[Ronan]

Originally Posted by The Saint

I figured it's one of those things better celebrated quietly... *glance around suspiciously*

+1...

[Brakoo]

Originally Posted by Syn

Good. More guns-lower prices- more players- sport becomes more mainstream in society-less soccer mom freakouts.

Amen to that, it's driving me nuts.

[Ghillie973]

Originally Posted by RacingManiac

I hope someone will venture out into bringing other stuff in, like MBK for 1911.....

I was just thinking the same thing.

[Crunchmeister]

I know shootsoft will do special orders. I believe they've imported some metal bodies for people. So if you want to get something in particular in, you should try contacting them.

[BBS]

since that unforgettable incident, i've nearly lost all faith from importing privately...