Ions unreliable??Theres no way id choose choose an Ion over an old angel, yer fair enuf ions are cheap ya can get everythin u need with em but there so un reliable, 2 of my friends have got Ions and there both broke and they've hardly been used, all in all id deffinately go for an old angel
Maybe they hit their Ions with an Angel IR3Ions unreliable??
Have you considered that fact that it might be your mates playing around with them that caused the failures. I've had two ions and both have worked fine. Only problems I've had have been easily resolved and were down to my playing around with settings and upgrades.
dm3's are cheap but you can pick up a 4 or 5 for not too much more these days, plus they dont feel like your carrying a breeze blockor, you could look at older markers, which cost the same as an ion but are in many cases superior.
for the same price as an ion you can get...... old angels, probably up to an a4 fly maybe. old timmys, don't know much about them but they cost a lot new so must have something to them. old cockers, gotta love fixing them and parts are getting hard to come by but still. old dm's , these seem to hold their value but can pick up dm3's relatively cheap. oh and cant forget old shockers. again these go for nothing.
make use of the fact that things like the ion and the pmr have ruined the second hand market and buy a stupidly cheap high end gun from 3-4 years ago!