Crye baby, Crye - off topic from Mack's dreamers
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clumpyedge
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Meh I consider having to buy gear over and over again because I bought cheap a rip off
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Lozart
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Buy cheap, buy twice. As far as that CP shirt goes, AOR1 is relatively hard to find in genuine G3 shirts which tends to inflate their value. As to whether or not it's "worth" that price is down to the person that really wants a genuine AOR1 G3 shirt. Whether or not it's sensible or otherwise to buy genuine CP gear for airsoft is entirely down to the individual player. What represents good value to you doesn't necessarily represent good value to anyone else.
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Yup from fleabay and it did say all import and tax cost covered .
If your happy to pay it then that’s your decision , I recently paid over 50 for a second hand frog AOR2 shirt , and had a guy at a skirmish go off on one about how thick I was as he’d only paid £25 for his TMC one !? yes you may have paid less than half of what I paid but mine is more than twice as good as your shirt ! ?
And it’s your money in the end ,
not as if your some crackhead mugging grannies to get the money ?
clumpyedge
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I think you’ll find I do, after all I rarely buy second hand rifs for that very reason unless it’s a complete steal!
Horses for courses. If you wouldn’t pay it someone who collects or wants it bad enough will. I stand by the fact I don’t think it’s a rip off because of the amount that are on the market. Some like @Druid799 may find a nice deal (£30odd quid cheaper - some would say big whoop) but to most that’s what they’d have to pay if that’s what they want.
Yup from fleabay and it did say all import and tax cost covered .
If your happy to pay it then that’s your decision , I recently paid over 50 for a second hand frog AOR2 shirt , and had a guy at a skirmish go off on one about how thick I was as he’d only paid £25 for his TMC one !? yes you may have paid less than half of what I paid but mine is more than twice as good as your shirt ! ?
And it’s your money in the end ,
not as if your some crackhead mugging grannies to get the money ?
I find most “gear whore bashing” posts could be ended in this way. It’s the buyers money who is anyone else to say how they spend it. I for the most part will always buy new because I’ve got that piece of mind that I know if something goes wrong or it’s able to be returned I can.
Ive said this before about people that moan about systema/recoils/crye or die fan boys, some people are just salty because they havnt got one while some people of the above groups are actually elitist bellends. At the end of the day what people spend their hard earned cash on is nobodies business except the persons mrs and them ?
Would you have a pop at someone for buying a Lamborghini if they can afford to run/maintain it just because it’s more expensive than your corsa that gets you from a to b... probably not, why is Airsoft any different.
You say selling/buying for silly money, I say making an investment in something that will ultimately get good use and out last some cheap crap that will undoubtly fail right when you need it the most.
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TheFull9
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I've sold many bits of crye stuff for very similar sums (more in some cases), in fact I'm pretty certain the shirt in question was mine originally. I imported a G3 combat shirt in AOR1 and Med/long from the US a while back and sold it on when I was able to replace it with a med/reg. Hell I've bought rare crye stuff (amongst other gear) for many times more than the cost being debated here and if people want to be actual dicks about that without seeing my bank accounts it demonstrates nothing but their own immaturity towards others and ignorance of the market around this stuff.
Better not post this link... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Crye-Precision-DCU-Combat-Shirt/263695643213?hash=item3d657c324d:g:soIAAOSwvDpa~hUE
E21A
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I think you’ll find you don’t. A rip off is something that’s grossly over priced, which the original linked shirt is. Can be had for less money brand new, and as you’ve mentioned, new is better.
£30 cheaper and BRAND NEW. Not second hand and stained.
If if anyone pays that much for a shirt of any kind they are fucking insane
Druid799
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But with this kind of price your in to the realms of collectors , NOT users .
this sale is no different to the shoe collector who spends 5 or 6 grand on a pair of unworn still in the box first run airJordans , by the very nature of it the kind of collector who would buy (or could afford it) it will probably have the connections to even assert some of its history being a custom piece .
clumpyedge
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YOU think it’s grossly over priced, numerous others don’t, by any chance did you know about how fairly rare the item is before a few of us mentioned that fact? Did you know it’s issued kit?
believe me I do know what a rip off is and while I’m not as avid a collector as @CKinnerley I have paid for bits and pieces over the years that while have been expensive have been worth the price to me as it’s something I’VE wanted.
One mans junk is another mans treasure after all. Look at comic books some can be ratty as shit and people still pay thousands for them.
If I can’t get one new and that’s the price, I’d either haggle or take it for what it is. It’s not like it’s an item that’s flooding the market!
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To be honest this irks me even more, people who buy stuff that’s intended to be used and then don’t use it. If you want something to invest in buy art
It IS grossly overpriced, I’d hazard a guess that it costs less than 20% of the price to produce
clumpyedge
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DONT ANGER THE POPE
Here's their email ask them how much it costs to produce - [email protected]
Let me know how you get on
Why does it irk you when its not your money, you're not loosing out on anything?
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Druid799
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I take your point but by the very fact it’s a limited number custom order piece of kit (the blood group on the arms certainly gives it a certain provenance to its history) would you really want to see someone wearing it on an Airsoft field ? I wouldn’t .
My personal example of this , a teammate was selling for a friend of his an extensive collection of kit and guns who sadly had been diagnosed with terminal cancer . So there I am rummaging through a huge mound of black bags full of kit when I find a set of very nicely aged Repro USMC badged ERDL camo and I thought “that’ll go nicely with my tigerstripe !” . Get it home start having a really good look at it and I discovered it’s not repro at all it’s a genuine 1968 dated set ! So there’s no way on the face of the Earth I’d wear it now with this possible history to it . Get my drift ?
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ImTriggerHappy
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Each to their own because while I would never pay that for a camo top as I would never play in it and have no interest in military gear so collecting is out the window also. I do get that some people are mental enough to pay it and if it makes them happy and it is not my money then really nothing to do with me.
I mean I will take the piss because anything is game when bored but in all honesty I will pay that for footwear so in my own way no different.
I also have a gun with almost all the internals made of titanium and custom made electronics some people might find that mental but hey that is my mental.
I mean I will take the piss because anything is game when bored but in all honesty I will pay that for footwear so in my own way no different.
I also have a gun with almost all the internals made of titanium and custom made electronics some people might find that mental but hey that is my mental.
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haha best not look at my trainer collection then, over 200+ pairs n rising, some rare bits too
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