I’ve abandoned my local shop.

For awhile now, my local paintball shop has overpriced things.  Not to a noticeably large extent, but they have been over pricing everything.  The last straw came yesterday when I was at the shop and I saw a BKO on the wall...for 325 dollars...

My parents went through hell for a BKO for christmas and the shop totally screwed them and sold it to them for 380 bucks...all it did was break down...never shot a ball, just chopped, thats all it ever did...chop chop chop.  It leaked consistantly, and I got about 500 shots per full on a 45/4500 tank...

I was really dissapointed that the store that I have come to like a lot has stooped as low as to take my bko back, send it into ICD, get it fixed (i did it a number of times, came back with a different problem each time), and then put it back on the wall  for 325 bucks.  That is poor buissness.  That gun is only worth 280 at the most and they have even said it is worth less, they are only hoping someone will buy it out of stupidity.

I've always been a "support you local buisness" kind of guy.  But that was, like I have said, the LAST straw.  So, I'm sad to say that I'm buying all my equipment from ebay and other online dealers.  While I'll miss the people, it serves them right for poor buisness ethics and not being able to give the right price for the right stuff...i mean, they were selling dye lock-lids for nine dollars each last time i was in there, and thats absurd.

The purpose of this post is to find out if any of you have had the same problems.  Because I am really, really dissapointed.

Well I'm glad someone else had something like that happen to them.

I am suspended 2 weeks from my paintball field I work/play at/live at(for the weekends)

What happened?
I fill tanks/send out the rentals, all that good stuff.
I set up about 80 or so rentals and fill 8 or so milk carton crates full of 12oz c02 tanks. For anyone who sets up guuns or fills tanks knows that is alot of work! I used about 2 scuba tanks to fill most of the tanks(alot are half-filled we take off rentals at the end of the day). So after busting my ass for a few hours and replacing the scuba tanks and cleaning up alot and organizing for the next day I go back to my boss's house(he lives on the land, I'm good friends w/ his family) and I just chill untill the next day.

That next morning I wake up at about 8 and go and check on my rentals, tanks, etc. I see this older lady in there who "works" there but is married to my boss's wifes brother. She is 43, blonde and nasty. I see her filling a compressed air tank. We use 5 scuba tanks to fill compressed air because our compresser hasn't arrived yet. Well for anyone who has not filled compressed air, you slide a quick disconnect over the fill nipple and clamp down the QD so it won't blow your tank off. Will she didn't clamp down the QD and she blew the tank off the line at about 3000 psi. I will let you guys think of the results. She was in there the whole day filling tanks and sending out rentals.

About half an hour later we have about 40-50 people getting their gear ready to play and my boss says I can go home or play. Infact, he told his best 3 employees to go home or play. That was a stupid decision. All 3 of us show up expeecting to work. I guess not. The person who usually does the work schedule was sick(the person who does it is my boss's wife). SO my boss's wifes brother does the schedule sometimes and he didn't know what he was doing.

So after BS'ing for awhile with my friend who was also told to go home or play, we decide to play. I paly for a few hours, then I'm told I need to work. I'm like..wtf, why? I was told to play or go home. Being a nice guy I work. We had about 74 total on walk on play at one time. We had over 150 people that day though. So I understood they would need me to work. Right now I'm a little pissed. I set up alot of rentals and filled tanks for my self and that old nasty lady who doesn't know what shes doing is in there screwing stuff up. She came to me about a dozen times asking where this was, where that was.. etc. I told her each time that everything is where it belongs. She asks where that was.. Well if your not trained to send out rentals or fill tanks then you need to get out of that area. That made me a little more up set. I get on the field to ref. People w/o barrel plugs, masks off and shooting refs for fun gets aggrevating very fast. Add that on top my already pissed off self would set many people off.

Then I made a poor decision. I gave my dad my ref jersery/walkie and took my shocker, pack and hit the field to play a game. My batteries are dead in my halo. That just pisses me off a little more. Then I rushed this one kid who does work out there only because I can shoot 3 balls at a time. We have that "surrender" rule, only because with 80+ ppl playing, little kids here and there, honestly who would want a little kid to get hurt? But this rule is for everyone. So I slide into the other side of his bunker, he shot me while I was on my way there but I did not feel it. I slid into his bunker and I get shot about 80 or so times while he is screaming at me to move. Well I don't mind getting shot once or twice up close like that because thats the risk I took. But when someone empties half a hopper on you and they know that they are not hitting anything but the person who is not more than 2 feet in front of you then you might get a little up set. Well I lost it, I was already so pissed off that just set me off. I stand up and I am screaming at him that you cant shoot within 5 feet and you can't over shoot someone like that. I'm livid, all you can hear is the F word over anything else. I reach down to pat him on the back and tell him he needs to get off. He is a ref, he works there,  he can't cheat. Truth is, I was so pissed off I picked him up and moved him. He was laying down shooting and I picked him up by his neck and pulled him to his feet.  There was a ref between us, he is in the army(not one of those sniper guys though) and he was the only thing holding me back from punching the kid in the face. So he escorts me off the field.

My boss is on the other side of the netting and watched the whole thing. He pulls me into his office and just goes off..
I was at work. I was playing when I wasn't susposed to. I was wearing a work shirt while I was playing(wich can confuse ppl w/ a ref), I made a big scene, I used way to much profanity, physical contact. All that is understandable. I made a poor choice to step on a paintball field while I was pissed off. Everyone knows that just playing plaintball and having someone get a lucky shot, have your batteries die or something like that will up set you alot and will somewhat make you a bit mad. I was pissed, I blew up and reacted w/o knowing.

But the kid I just about killed,  no one likes him. So everyone was a slight bit happier when they found one I nearly knocked him out. If you have seen the end of 300 fps, it was a little like that. I can't even go to the house w/ his family and hang out with them. lol.

IF you have read all this then learn from it. IF your pissed while playing paintball. Take a break. Sit out a game or two. Get a drink, empty a few halos in the chrnograph. Go talk to one of your friends your playing with and just sit back. ITS JUST A GAME.
But I'm avoiding my local field for awhile. In fact, about 5 other employees who work there are also not showing up untill I show up to work again. I'm so loved.
I wont put all this blame on me though. It was my fields poor decision to not let their top 3 employees work that day. I swear alot of things would of been run alot smoother if they would of known what they were doing. I'm glad I'm not out there today. I do kinda miss it though. ahh I need a break. They worked me every weekend for 9 months.

PM for more details and crap like that.

There are 4 paintball places around where I live and a small 1 at the field I work at. I bought my dynasty shocker for $900 at one of the stores(saved $300 off internet prices!). So prices and crap like that is pretty good. I just hate it when people can't fill c02 tanks, or only fill them half way. But working at a paintball field or proshop helps out alot. I won't even mention how much stuff I've gotten for free.

Anyways, sucks to see your proshop has crazy prices. That is a dissapointment.

LastShot0330 wrote: ^Ultimate I feel u man. Pple who don't know what they are doing should just stay out of the way!!!

Well what really made me mad is that I have been told by my boss, his wife and every other employee that I do one hell of a job in there w/ the rentals and tanks.

Also alot of people have said my biggest weakness is because I'm to nice. Its all good though..they can't function w/o me as well as they do with me. :)

100$ for an egg with y board
400$ for a5 r/t
70$ a marbs case
55$ zap spank
5 bux a fill they say 4500 but its 3
a guage 35$
revy 65$
thats all i can think of but they are very very very high priced