they don't respond? HA!
Nah they just block you, then slag you off where they think you won't see or hear about it or create websites and 30 minute videos.
Respond? Nah......never....lol
Opus Finale .... A Warts an' all Exposé of Paintball's Very Own Megalomaniac
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Nah they just block you, then slag you off where they think you won't see or hear about it or create websites and 30 minute videos.
Respond? Nah......never....lol
From what I've now been told, Powerball have not supplied paint to either barnett or sables, and for that, they should be applauded.
Powerball have apparently chosen to sue barnett for the missing money and so we can only wish them luck in getting it back ...
On a wider note, I got told this morning where barnett eventually got his paint from and it's not from any of our established suppliers, which if you think about it, is an amazing thing.
Not one of them stooped sooo low as to entertain financial gain before doing the right thing ..... and for this, I think it's a good day for paintball.
For the first time in my knowledge, our industry took a stand albeit individually but in effect, together.
The paint barnett eventually got his grubby little hands on is called Pro Shar and it's made by a Russian company and distributed via Holland.
I've asked some friends of mine in the industry and it seems that hardly any of us have heard of this mob let alone know any of the people involved.
It just shows you how far barnett / sables had to go before they found someone willing to sell them paint.
And seeing as this Russian mob are new suppliers to sables / barnett, you can pretty much assume barnett and sables had to pay up front otherwise they're gonna live to regret it very quickly.
However, this is a huge risk for barnett because the quality of the paint is unknown and so we should hear how good/bad it was soon enough.
If there's one thing that paintballers value above all, is good paint; and if it doesn't come up to scratch then you can expect trouble.
I hope for the players' sake, it shoots ok.
Today is a really good day for UK paintball because people in our industry finally took a stand and would not sell paint to barnett or his partner in crime, sables.
The fact that barnett had to go to Russia to buy paint tells its own story ....
There's hope for us yet .....
PS I've just noticed something, barnett's initial and sables initial are 'B' and 'S' .... and when placed one after the other as in BS, anybody notice anything appropriate ??
I think they were made for each other ...
And so from now on, I just use the initialised version of their surnames and refer to them as an entangled pair using BS instead of writing out their surnames every time.
Powerball have apparently chosen to sue barnett for the missing money and so we can only wish them luck in getting it back ...
On a wider note, I got told this morning where barnett eventually got his paint from and it's not from any of our established suppliers, which if you think about it, is an amazing thing.
Not one of them stooped sooo low as to entertain financial gain before doing the right thing ..... and for this, I think it's a good day for paintball.
For the first time in my knowledge, our industry took a stand albeit individually but in effect, together.
The paint barnett eventually got his grubby little hands on is called Pro Shar and it's made by a Russian company and distributed via Holland.
I've asked some friends of mine in the industry and it seems that hardly any of us have heard of this mob let alone know any of the people involved.
It just shows you how far barnett / sables had to go before they found someone willing to sell them paint.
And seeing as this Russian mob are new suppliers to sables / barnett, you can pretty much assume barnett and sables had to pay up front otherwise they're gonna live to regret it very quickly.
However, this is a huge risk for barnett because the quality of the paint is unknown and so we should hear how good/bad it was soon enough.
If there's one thing that paintballers value above all, is good paint; and if it doesn't come up to scratch then you can expect trouble.
I hope for the players' sake, it shoots ok.
Today is a really good day for UK paintball because people in our industry finally took a stand and would not sell paint to barnett or his partner in crime, sables.
The fact that barnett had to go to Russia to buy paint tells its own story ....
There's hope for us yet .....
PS I've just noticed something, barnett's initial and sables initial are 'B' and 'S' .... and when placed one after the other as in BS, anybody notice anything appropriate ??
I think they were made for each other ...
And so from now on, I just use the initialised version of their surnames and refer to them as an entangled pair using BS instead of writing out their surnames every time.
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Another amazing snippett has just come in via the paintball jungle drums and it seems barnett has been telling people that he doesn't actually owe Gino 60 grand at all, he actually owes 21 grand ....... I've just double checked the amount with Valken and they were incredulous as to how he would / could say such a thing.
It is of course a lie, just another whopper from that big-fat gob of his.
It makes you wonder what next from his mouth, might he even tell people he's beaten me up - after all, he did people in our industry that he'd 'ran me out of paintball'
He's gonna regret ever indulging the truth with that comment .... from the moment I heard he'd been telling people that ... he was gonna have problems.
I think I'll finish a video of my preparations just in case my path crosses barnett's - after all, I wouldn't wanna be taken by surprise now, would I .... :/
It is of course a lie, just another whopper from that big-fat gob of his.
It makes you wonder what next from his mouth, might he even tell people he's beaten me up - after all, he did people in our industry that he'd 'ran me out of paintball'
He's gonna regret ever indulging the truth with that comment .... from the moment I heard he'd been telling people that ... he was gonna have problems.
I think I'll finish a video of my preparations just in case my path crosses barnett's - after all, I wouldn't wanna be taken by surprise now, would I .... :/
This is hearsay only, but I was told that Pro-Shar are the manufacturers of Valken paint for the EU, some of which was sold in white boxes at Staargate last year but marketed as Valken.
It would be interesting if verified as it would mean he's gone direct to Valkens supplier for the same grade of paint, but you can bet he'll be making sure people know it's exactly that same as Grafitti/Redemption etc and selling it at the same prices as he was selling Valken boxed paint.
It would be interesting if verified as it would mean he's gone direct to Valkens supplier for the same grade of paint, but you can bet he'll be making sure people know it's exactly that same as Grafitti/Redemption etc and selling it at the same prices as he was selling Valken boxed paint.
It's true that Pro Shar are Valken's supplier and we knew he had approached them two weeks ago.
Gino and Will from Valken were made aware of this but it seems a back door was found by barnett when he got sables to prepay for the paint.
Apparently Pro Shar apparently didn't know who sables was [hardly surprising because he's a frikkin nobody] and when he offered cash up front, they allegedly didn't realise it was for barnett.
Gino and Will from Valken were made aware of this but it seems a back door was found by barnett when he got sables to prepay for the paint.
Apparently Pro Shar apparently didn't know who sables was [hardly surprising because he's a frikkin nobody] and when he offered cash up front, they allegedly didn't realise it was for barnett.
Update: Yet more twists and turns as this odyssey unfurls itself from the tangled web of lies and deceit that barnett creates around him.
Apparently, the Pro Shar people are not amused ... when told of the barnett situation, they realised they'd been duped and consequently, ain't too pleased with sables for the integral part he has played in this saga.
I think this must be true because there's no way the Russian guys are gonna want to pis$ off one of their biggest customers, Valken.
Upon hearing the sordid details of barnett screwing Valken for the 60 grand and then using sables as the front-man to secure paint from them, their opinion toward sables and barnett has now come into line with the rest of our industry.
As for the paint itself?
There are 3 pallets on site apparently - One pallet is Pro Shar paint, a second pallet is a white box paint [usually low grade] that could be anything but still made by Pro Shar but it's ostensibly a lucky-dip paint, you don't really know what you're getting and the third pallet is called Skirmish which is a field grade paint - this has NOTHING to do with the Skirmish company over here I hasten to add.
Bottom line?
The BS show barely got over the line with this one but I tell you this much - with reduced numbers at the event, the amount of money barnett will stuff in his back pocket is not gonna be enough for him to continue promoting the events he's got planned in the way he'd like.
We can be assured of one thing hiwever, none of the money barnett may earn from this event will be paid to the creditors who he's screwed over.
He will see their plight as necessary collateral damage as he careers through our sport on his self-appointed mission of messianic madness.
And he will continue screwing people like he always has done till he runs out of money/credit/friend .. I use the word 'friend' in the singular and not plural because sables is his only friend / partner / whatever ... and even that will come to a sorry end.
Mind you, I just wrote 'money/credit/friend' - he's run out of money, he's got no credit and only one friend left ... desperate times indeed for the messiah of our sport.
Apparently, the Pro Shar people are not amused ... when told of the barnett situation, they realised they'd been duped and consequently, ain't too pleased with sables for the integral part he has played in this saga.
I think this must be true because there's no way the Russian guys are gonna want to pis$ off one of their biggest customers, Valken.
Upon hearing the sordid details of barnett screwing Valken for the 60 grand and then using sables as the front-man to secure paint from them, their opinion toward sables and barnett has now come into line with the rest of our industry.
As for the paint itself?
There are 3 pallets on site apparently - One pallet is Pro Shar paint, a second pallet is a white box paint [usually low grade] that could be anything but still made by Pro Shar but it's ostensibly a lucky-dip paint, you don't really know what you're getting and the third pallet is called Skirmish which is a field grade paint - this has NOTHING to do with the Skirmish company over here I hasten to add.
Bottom line?
The BS show barely got over the line with this one but I tell you this much - with reduced numbers at the event, the amount of money barnett will stuff in his back pocket is not gonna be enough for him to continue promoting the events he's got planned in the way he'd like.
We can be assured of one thing hiwever, none of the money barnett may earn from this event will be paid to the creditors who he's screwed over.
He will see their plight as necessary collateral damage as he careers through our sport on his self-appointed mission of messianic madness.
And he will continue screwing people like he always has done till he runs out of money/credit/friend .. I use the word 'friend' in the singular and not plural because sables is his only friend / partner / whatever ... and even that will come to a sorry end.
Mind you, I just wrote 'money/credit/friend' - he's run out of money, he's got no credit and only one friend left ... desperate times indeed for the messiah of our sport.
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