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loply

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Cool. Youre shifting 40 or so markers a month? Man, thats quite a lot, I cant believe 40 people acquire a new marker in the UK each month lol.

Do you have problems acquiring funny little parts like regs, valves, drop forwards, specific barrels, etc?

I would imagine from what youve said that a lot off this stuff can only be imported... Import tax is a ******* huh. Everything I buy for my business comes from bloody Taiwan, and usually arrives in a 20ft ISO container so I have to pay for cranes and all sorts.

What sort of premises do you run Havoc from, just from home or a small business unit?
 
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Havoc

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we run our three buisnesses from home but we have units on several airfields we are going to be getting involved with a shop very soon which will be good as we will be able to invite more people down to view before they buy. we have problems getting some spares but on the whole it all works ok. we are lucky in the sense that we only use UPS so containers will never be a problem for us
 
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loply

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Three businesses? You must be busy!

Are you sales increasing or decreasing? I wish paintball would pick up in this country like it is in the US... I get the Jedi Sense that it is slowly expanding, since new fields are popping up in higher exposure places regularly.

I would imagine youve got a nice appreciating asset there.
 
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Havoc

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we have only been doing paintball since last july selling that is, and in that time it dose seem that it is on the up. when i started out a very wise man said to me pound for pound milr for mile there are more paintball sites in the uk than in the states, that came from one of the founders of paintball in the uk who is a good friend of mine the other two buisness will always be around while there is a police force and the armed forces so they arte realy good but not everyones cup of tea.
 
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loply

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One more thing, is it really illegal to sell burst-mode and full-auto capable paintball markers in the UK? Even if the dip-switch needs to be manipulated in order to activate these modes?

Or is it just illegal to discharge the markers in these modes?

Ive heard quite a lot of people say its illegal to sell em, but I see some quite major UK shops selling electro spyders and whatnot. Whats the deal with that.
 
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Havoc

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hi yes it is illegal to sell or to buy full autos in the UK, we only sell them to europe however if anyone wants one we can sell them with the locking chip removed as that covers us as regards the law, if the buyer replaces the chip then that is up to them and we cant do anything about that, as long as we make it clear that it is illeagal to do so, i have had quite a bit of stick in the past about full autos and it seems that most electric guns are capable of full auto just not all advertise the fact.
 
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