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Which site/company in YOUR opinion, has the worst reputation

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Robbo

Robbo

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Jul 5, 2001
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Gups said:
Flint & SilverBike, thx for some sensible replies :)
FW have just had brand new Infernos, about 3 weeks ago and a new manager, about 6 weeks ago. I did some training with the marshals up there a couple of months back and they were all really keen to learn and are polite guys & girls. IMO it's a well run site in a nice location. We have a few planning issues there as it's on a private estate so we can't erect permanent structures like we can at other locations. Therefore basecamp is mainly army tents, but they serve their purpose.

Re set-up costs, our set up costs are much higher than £80k.. for an average DF site the guns and Co2 cylinders alone would be 30k, a van another 15k, one castle costs 15-20k and we have 6 fields at each centre. Our latest site at Bournemouth has been 8 weeks in the build so far and was built from nothing. A swamp was filled in and roads built before the guys could even start on the fields. It took 30 dumper-trucks of hardcore/planings to create a hardstanding for basecamp alone. It takes a long time to start making a profit from a new site but all people are interested in is 'oh my God, they charge £5/£6 per 100'. We gain nothing from 'entry fee' via the VIP tickets, out only profit is what people spend on the day and out of that come the running costs, wages etc.
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Gups, come on mate, I have owned a site and if they cost upwards of £80,000 to set up you'd hardly have any sites in the UK whatsoever...

Baby Dave I thought the cr@p was supposed to come out the rear end of a baby ... leastwise that's the theory... :rolleyes:
 
Mort

Mort

The big, bad I SAID NO!!
Sep 14, 2006
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I've always disliked the Skirmish site in Necton, the manager is the tightest c*nt you've ever seen (and not in a good way :() And now they've taken over the Norwich field. :rolleyes:
 
baby dave

baby dave

Team Stealth
Sep 21, 2006
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probably robbo :rolleyes:

the point i was attempting to make was that the site i work at does have a large number of people playing every single week and as i also said we've had alot of people come back over and over in very short space.....they obviously ignore the prices and come for a very good day out which is what they get
 
Robbo

Robbo

Owner of this website
Jul 5, 2001
13,116
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London
www.p8ntballer.com
baby dave said:
probably robbo :rolleyes:

the point i was attempting to make was that the site i work at does have a large number of people playing every single week and as i also said we've had alot of people come back over and over in very short space.....they obviously ignore the prices and come for a very good day out which is what they get
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A couple of things worry me and these are :-

Firstly, I had better qualify my questions in that I have never been to a df site in my life and can only go on hearsay. anyhows, why do df continue to use those people in malls when soooooo many problems can be attributed to them?

Secondly, I am sure some people who voted for df being the worst site are merely jumping on a bandwagon and haven't actually been to one but...why is there a bandwagon in the first place?
In other words, is there is no smoke without fire??

Oh, and one more thing Dave, I ain't picking on df here, as you may or may not have gleaned from other threads I have been involved in, I haven't got a very high opinion of the majority of our site owners.
 
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