Can I have your opinions please......

[robtattoo]

Taken from Fat Bob's forum.



What would you do?

Had an interesting conversation with a guy at the PA league today.

He was complaining about how bad the paintballs his team were using, so bad they were loosing games because of it.

I asked him why he diddnt just buy a different brand for the rest of the day. His answer was to point at a logo on his shirt. (Meaning that he was sponsored by a particular manufacturer).

As a paint sponsor for teams in the PA league, if a particular batch of paint that I had supplied to a team turned out to be a bad batch and thus the team was suffering, I would expect the team to go and get a different brand certainly for the rest of the day, then sort things out later.

I would not want or expect that team to continue using a sub standard product.

The performance of the team and enjoyment of the event would over ride any undying loyalty to a particular brand.

Your thoughts and comments would be very interesting

 

[Buddha 3]

Most teams that claim to be sponsored just get their paint at a discount. Given that most paint brands are present at events and sell their stuff at reasonable prices, it would make sense to pay a few quid more per box if your regular brand is giving you grief. Discounts are all well and good, but not if they cost you games.

Then again, they may just have been blaming their lack of game on one of the usual suspects....

 

[Lucky]

If the team concerned switched paint, "and did it quietly", who would ever know?
Surely if you were sponsoring a team you'd make sure they had the best, freshest paint available.......because if i was watching a match and i were to see that team playing and the balls were breaking or leaving the barrel at 45 degree tangents, it would really make me think "hmmmm i must do business with their sponsor because they're using such great products" !
Therefore sponsor loses money and reputation.......................
"well what little reputation they have left" ?

 

[IanC]

looks like a case of no-game losers looking for an excuse!

If they are having that much of a problem then they should bail out and get another brands paint. If they truly do have a proper sponsorship deal then they need to batter the supplier to help!

On my previous team, we were only low division monkeys with trade assistance, and I have to say our paint always arrived in perfect condition!

 

[Fat-Frank]

Nice way to promote your sponsor
I`m sure they would have appriciated if he took it with them first, and if they couldn`t help the team out, (maybe because the hole batch was damaged) they would say " try another brand for today"...........

What goes around comes around!
Just my 2 ...

 

[Bolter]

it was bloomin cold, so paint breaking would have been a problem in some guns, but, having the team get some alternative paint may not have been an option as they would have spent money on paint already (albeit a sponsored reduced amount) and then to have to buy more paint at full price from somewhere else would double the cost.

 

[Chicago]

No way should the team switch. To do so would be an admission that their sponsor can't reliably provide good paint. Yeah, we know that it happens to everyone, but, in the grand scheme of things, one team losing an event one time when they get a bad batch is much more acceptable than ever having a team switching paint at an event because your paint sucks.

If the sponsorship is valuable to you, you need to roll with it if a bad batch comes along. If that happens often, your fault for picking a crappy sponsor.

 

[Nickyboy]

If its that bad you can take it back you know........

And if it is actually sponsership paint, you would get an apoligy and probably enough paint free for a training session.

 

[DANIEL]

The guy you were speaking to should not have been badmouthing their sponsors product to anyone in the first place..


it was cold yesterday and the problems could have been with the way the players guns were set up and if they took any care to protect their paint from the cold.

Also the type of paint the team chose.. we chose a harder paint than we usually would because it was going to be cold, believing in was better to risk a bounce off a player than blending..


might not have been the suppliers / paints fault at all.

 

[SiXplicit]

I don't think Robtattoo spoke to anyone about this. Like he said before, it was taken from Fat Bobs forums & he was just asking opinions. Or does that mean it just started as an equivalant to "a friend of a friend once told me.......!"

Anyway, imo whoever it was should certainly have gone to their sponsor before ranting to the general public about it. Maybe he/she did, we don't know all the facts. We're in a fortunate position where our sponsor can supply us various different paintballs so if we ever were to get a bad batch we can still switch paint without upsetting our sponsor, because we're getting it for them anyway! Very handy position to be in.