This is very hard to understand.
Every other country which has paintball fields manages to balance Punter and Tourney players.
why are these 2 fields either incapable or unwilling?
paint can be bought in bulk for far less than 25 pound a box(Bulk) and can be sold for 40 (for example) and we will still pay it! or even more! But charging
6-7 pounds per pot to people who are wanting to either try the sport or really play regularly is just incomprehensible.
I understand that their is a profit margine and that during the recession money is hard to come by but surely the owners of these sights must see that they are missing out on a large part of the players by being so single tracked using their current business plans.
Where i come from (Germany) where the ban has just been put off again (THANK GOD) i know an owner of a field whos making a good amount of money for himself.
Hes only open 5 hours every evening during the week and 10 on weekends.
and paint is 50 euros per box (DXS Rec)
all players pay that without a flinch even the people who just come for a "one off fun". 3 Teams play regularly there and many people come just for a try and tourney players and rental people even play together(unfair i know
) So i dont see why this trend for overpriced paint has kicked off SOO hard in the UK. If somebody would like to explain i would be very glad.(dont just say "cause it makes more money"
)
coming back to the point.
A field in this area would probably see 3-5 maybe even more teams on a regular basis(2-3 times a month) and more interested clients following. If each member pays 15 pounds field fee and i doono say 40 pound per box its expensive yes. but paintball is an expensive sport... and it means owners can make their profit and people who want to elevate their game can do so without jeperdizing the field owners existance!
Would be great if either of the two fields that have been discussed in this thread would agree to some kind of pricing to keep the community of this sport alive in Scotland!
Cheers