ebolt/trigger question...

Tippmania wrote: I've seen a couple for 275$...http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/1156/

They were high priced even when they were a standard product. The market has never been large and the price reflects the requirement that a company has to make a profit to survive.

Look at parts such as the Cheetah board for the Halo hopper. Eighty dollars is absolutely outrageous. But we wait for three months to get one and gladly pay the price. The E-Bolt kit required R&D and, relative to other electro-pneumatic markers, this was an inexpensive upgrade. Remember, this was before the Ion hit the market. Every thing else that gave the firepower and ease of use one got with this conversion was available only in $1000+ markers.

You guys do not really understand the mark up of what you think are inexpensive items. Why do you think Tippmann replaces all these parts and pieces for free. Call 'em up and say the whatchamajigit is broken (even though you abused it) and they send you a new one for free. Significantly that is because the manufacturing parts are DIRT cheap.

Set up for production, I could produce the power valve for $1.00. They sell for $30. After the cost of the molds are amortized I could produce new right and left shells for about $1.50 each, but a company has to make a profit to survive. Do you know how much a full page ad in a paintball magazine costs? $3000 to $5000 is not an uncommon price. Creating the ad in the first place may cost 4 times that much.

Just a mini-lesson in the free enterprise system.