it's a start at least!!!! PLAY.COM

[Dusty]

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=browse&r=GADG&title=0&searchstring=Paintball&searchtype=genre&id=0&adudisc=y&who=&pa=genbrw&cpage=1&ob=alpha


check it out.

not much but a good starting point.

 

[JoseDominguez]

Sweet, now anyone can buy paint for £32 a case, why should anyone bother with legitimate sites. The biggest danger to our sport is cheap kit that's too easy to get hold of. Why should a 12 year old bother with £50 for goggles when he can just wear safety specs nicked from school and spend the money on a box of paint........ why bother with paintball sites when you can just play in the woods.
I've been waiting for this, the day when someone started openly selling paintballs at these prices on an "open" website. Paintball has been kept safe because it's a pretty closed shop, you played a bit at rec sites, got involved that way, by the time you were paying £40 a crate you'd played a bit and were "part of the scene" now you can buy a full set of kit and 2000 paintballs for less than £150 from a gadget website, they are even selling prefilled airtanks. You can start balling without ever seeing a paintball site.
All control is now gone even the army surplus shops that sold markers charged so much for paint that it discouraged casual use. We've been left alone by the authorities as we've behaved, but now any Chav can get kitted out on the same website he buys LED's for underneath his fiesta.

 

[T.B.F.K.A.T.L.]

Fantabulous

Professional Paintball Gun Starter Package

The ViewLoader Orion at the heart of this pack is one of the most popular paintball guns on the market, and it's not hard to see why.

Come on then who's got one, as I can't recall ever seeing one of them.

 

[EyeFellOva]

Yeah, but they've got EvoIIs for £54!

 

[rawson]

my first ever marker was a vl orion there not to bad to start on

 

[JoseDominguez]

We do evo II for £45

Anyway........ there's a full set up for £89...... including a gassed up air bottle...... ridiculous, where the hell is that going to get used? Nowhere it should be.

 

[dr.strangelove]

Geez, you fellas would go nuts here in America, you can buy that same kit for roughly the same price at any WalMart, Kmart, ShopKo, or sporting goods store (basically all the largest retail outlets in the country).

 

[JoseDominguez]

Originally posted by dr.strangelove
Geez, you fellas would go nuts here in America, you can buy that same kit for roughly the same price at any WalMart, Kmart, ShopKo, or sporting goods store (basically all the largest retail outlets in the country).

Problem is, why would you worry about paintball when real guns are also available legally. We don't have that, it puts paintball in the firing line for bad press. In the UK, paintball kit just isn't that common, backyard paintball is almost non-existant and most players with kit play regularly at organised sites. So, we don't get much vandalism etc... as markers have until recently only been owned by "paintballers" in any great number. Not many people just happen to have one, in fact, most people aren't even that aware of it.
It's not the price, it's the fact that this makes markers readilly available to anyone, regardless of whether they want to play paintball with them, suddenly for £90 you can be shooting paintballs at anything you want.

 

[killer_carvil]

Its not that bad

I don't think its that bad really, JoseDominguez i can understand where you are coming from but any chav could go on google an type "paintball guns" an be bombarded with thousands of site's selling the same set up for £89 with home deliverey an off they go. i know on ebay that they stopped selling markers as they can not prove age etc. but play must have some sort of controls before you buy these gun's ie an age limit (not checked yet but will).

 

[Baca Loco]

Cheaper paint for just anybody?! That's the third sign of Apocalypse, isn't it? Quick, register all the proper paintball marker users so the confiscations can begin. And don't stop there. If you see someone with what might be an unregistered marker turn them in. It's for the good of the sport after all.