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How badly is oil price going to affect paintball ?

GODDY

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Oct 2, 2006
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draxxus/procaps have already announced that they are having to put up prices because of base materials and transport costs have risen,it wont be long before the rest do the same
 

NitroBall

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Feb 20, 2006
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At this time in the morning who knows ;)

marker prices seem to be falling
4:08am, if only you could get your @ss out of my power rangers duvet covers on sunday mornings, instead of me having to give you a good kicking:rolleyes:

If any thing it will hit the tournament market first.
I would have thought so too. Punters will normally goto a site once or twice a year with a group of mates to have fun. Tourney players will be playing regularly , twice or more a month.

yeah prices are going up like mad but it's not going to effect out sport is it, what you can get a box of paint for £18 so things can't be that bad.
Its not just about paint prices buddy;)

OK. The oil costs affecting paintball aren't simply in the fill of paintball, it's the transport costs, the costs of heating warehouses. How much of our kit is polyester/nylon/something else oil based? Plus shipping paint and gear costs money. It's all related.

Jimmymac, it's not all about the prices within the sport. Paintball is a discretionary spend, most people don't have to spend the money on it if they don't have to. With the problems in the US with their housing and gas prices, decided not to spend even $50 on a days play is a pretty easy way for people to save some money. Paintball costs money every time you play it too, it's not like Fishing, biking or climbing where you can spend the same or more on your kit, but it's pretty much free from that point with minimal ongoing outlay. The same holds true in the UK with credit troubles and things.
Someone who knows oil prices will affect everything in life.

It would probably not affect for those who are young, single and live at home. But for those who have to feed a family, own a house, business or a car , its going to make a huge difference .
 

beanbag83

I'm either drunk or high
Feb 12, 2006
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Fact is the petroleum based ingredients in paintballs are the tip of the iceberge. Like Beaker said the price of oil effects everything for example:
Say you play a tourny,
HPac has to bring the air fill rigs and power their generators, their costs go up so charge the organizer more. The portaloos need to be transported to and from the event, organizer pays more. Marshals have to travel, if there travelling costs go up they'll want to be paid more to make it worth working tournies all of which means :
Entry fees go up!
Manufacturers Transport costs increase, cost of materials go up and market slows down as people having less money means less demand for products which means:
Price of Kit goes up!
Add this on top of the fact that everything is getting more expensive and people struggle to afford to play.
Turnouts at tournaments go down, possibly.

As someone with a mortgage, car and have to drive around 200 miles+ a week for work money is pretty tight as it is.
 

!xobile

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Dec 24, 2007
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um...I am quite unfamiliar with the UK prices and standard etc. I assume that the UK have UK based-american companies, so manufacturing plants in the UK. One thing the UK NEED is their own major manufacture (zap/chronic, draxxus etc). Why would that make a difference. For some reason I see that making a difference.
Also, why is it that the UK pay a lot of $$$?
I think we in fact pay more if you are a normal player here. We have a special (I mean REAL special) sponsorship w/ chronic, but a decent case of paint in Canada (XO V1) is 60 (which is like 30 quid). Anything less sucks. Also, the paint is always inconsistent cause it is almost always shipped from the states
 

jknight15

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Feb 3, 2007
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balf

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May 20, 2006
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!xobile

Canadian assassin
Dec 24, 2007
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ok, well the price of chronic for you guys is what I would expect. It's around $68 which is how much we would spend here. However on gas you are right. Now it's about 1.03/L which is around 50 (pence?). So, you end up paying double of gas. However paint prices seem to be the same. I spend $40 on a case of spank (I WOULD spend 40) and you guys are spending around the same (21 quid).
 

SAMUEL.D.RYAN

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Mar 17, 2007
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err exactly....manufactures make the smallest mark up on site paint!

i think it is you who are pissed sir.
Um, not really. You need to check your definition of markup mate...

Markup is the price the SELLER puts his/her product at to be sure he/she makes a sensible profit on the product. If you're talking about the markup manufacturers put to a product, then sure, the site paint has a smaller one because they buy it in such huge quantities

But this thread is about the markup that we have to pay. So therefore, the tournament ball is closer to cost price, and has a smaller markup.

Either way, the cost will come in actually transporting the; paint, staff, packaging, machines etc. not actually the oil in the balls themselves. And this cost will not go unnoticed in other industries, so generally life will get expensive ;)