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Money for paintball, quite a long read

freshVIOLENCIA

whats wrong wiv dis ting?
Oct 17, 2008
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For any age ballers with a budget. but want to be better.
Ok so, seeing as I have always not had much money for paintball, I found that, sure, you can watch video's about making money for paintballing like TechPB's one on youtube, but in the UK, the paper round? you can doubt there will even be a job offered for it. I know my mate does the paper round, he delivers the advertiser each month and he gets £25 a MONTH for doing it, thats, at local venues thats less than 500 balls worth, and collecting up after I suppose 4 months will get you £100, but after that amount of time you are gonna be bored ****less. But, of course, it still makes money.

In most points, it is right to get your parents involved, maybe, seeing as you probably wont be in a tournament if your strapped for cash, they wont be coming with you to watch you play, but if you ask, they probably will give you money, but after a while of paying for half of your paintball games, your birthday presents aren't gonna be that good, so its always best to get them invovled but not too much so that you are nagging them all the time for money, because you do need to be able to make it yourself.

I found, one of the best ways to make money, for paintball or anything, at lower high school age would be buying wholesale of the internet and sell at school like in breaks or something, and what i did was i bought like these massive packs of haribo in quantities from wholesalers online, and then brought them into school and ended up coming hone from like a day at school with an extra £10 in my wallet, which beats doing a paper round. Also, if your parents are gonna dislike what suddenly arrives one morning in the post, you have to tell them, paintball is an expensive sport, and without making the money for it, your not going to get to go often. You have to tell them, that you're actually making the money for yourself and being independent. I also found that some schools despise what they call the black market, where kids are selling stuff inside school for profit, my school does that, and we have an unbelieveable amount of cameras, but nothing ever happened, and each month i was able to go out with like 3 or 4 mates paying for our paintball games, and for that, I also got a huge amount of respect from them.

Leave feedback please, and questions.
Shall I continue on?

here's mikes opinion
 

Bambulus

Wreckballer - PMGWC#2
Nov 13, 2008
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Interesting point about buying wholesale and selling in school:

It's illegal.
A kid used to do it around my school, he got a warning from both the school and the police as soon as they found out.

:/

So yeah, doable, but I wouldn't recomend it.

Techpb still offer good advice for getting a few extra quid around and about. Offer to wash neighbours cars, mow lawns and that lot. Just the odd chore that people can't be arsed to do themselves.

And of course, if you're old enough, get a weekend job. If you're not old enough, ask around in local pubs or grocers who are willing to pay teenagers for the down and dirty jobs like potwashing.

And save a bit more by playing hopperball. Learn to play a 10 minute match well with 200 balls and you'll be sorted when you get to a 4 minute match with thousands
;)

It's easy living on a budget when you know how
 

kylelnsn

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Mar 1, 2009
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I used to sell sweets at school used to buy a giant box from our local cash and carry and bag them up and come home with £30 a day, until a teacher caught me and pursauded me nicely by screaming to stop selling (if i see blue DINO Sticks now i cry and weep)

Kyle
 

BubbleGumBob

Free Style Baby!
Mar 10, 2007
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i use to sell sweets at skool made a fair amount, however someone els started offering a better prices so much so it was not worth it anymore, then i got a job and i was sorted
 

Xmini-ballerX

London Tigers & Team GB
Nov 15, 2008
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i serously thought about selling paintballs in school for like 5 for £1 i thought i could make a hefty profit but then i thought of the concequences and then thought na ,EXPELLED :rolleyes:
 

ShimmerShot

Platinum Member
Apr 1, 2008
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lol kyle :D


Howdy dude :)

I would recomend stop selling the sweeties lol, good plan and very enterprnuerial of you to come up with a way of making money, but at the end of the day, if its illegal I don't think its worth risking your neck for it. (Maybe I'm too honest of a person)

Have you ever thought about a shelf stacking job at like a supermarket?
Helping set out marques at farmers fairs or outside stalls at weekend markets in general?
Ask your perents if theres anything you could do for them in exchange for some cash out of their wallets?
Heck even ask the paintball site if they got any places open for you to work there to get a discount on paint, but the money would be just as good.

My first game of paintball was back in 2004, the first time I ever went out to play with all my own gear was in 2008, I waited until I had the cash from my student loan :) was a long wait but very much worth the patience.
 

Tom Allen

TFP
Jul 4, 2003
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ok i got a good one, i'm going to charge 1p for protecting your valuable posts. Any that get deleted i will refund the fee immediately.

Feel free to join this scheme, or i'll send the boys round.;)
 

CRASH

Team Rampage
Sep 23, 2008
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I have it all worked out for you.

Simply learn to do what this guy does....


Then all you have to do is spending 2 walk-ons a months catching paint and the other 2 you can shoot it. ;)
 
Feb 27, 2009
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And save a bit more by playing hopperball. Learn to play a 10 minute match well with 200 balls and you'll be sorted when you get to a 4 minute match with thousands

Lol just do what i do and go through 500 balls a day.
And if u want a paperound dnt do the free papers go to your local paper shop see if they have any rounds delivering paid for papers. I used to do a morning, evening, sat and sun round to leave with £35 a week in my pocket. The money is there if your willing to work for it