Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread


"Spend £600 to get yourself started playing airsoft, with at least 2 guns you will probably never use."

Smaller bundles will get this sold sooner!

Notice with these "beginner bundles" it's always the cheapest eye pro being offered? Makes me concerned some poor kid will get the bundle and think because an airsofter sold it to him the eye pro will be fine, next thing you know little Timmy has a forum post about "How do I get bb fragments out of my eyeballs?"
 

Still salty about the loss of feedback ratings like it was yesterday or last week.

More importantly for the Mack's dreaming, he's listed his Kriss Vector for £420, asserting that you're being done a favour with it being £60 off. When you click the link provided, it is currently (literally as of the time of posting), just £25 off retail, without warranty or retailer peace of mind.

https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/krytac-kriss-r-vector-gas-blowback-smg Currently £445
 
Over 2 grand for a wooden box. Even if they're doing the old trick of selling the box and adding the gun as a "freebie" that's still dreaming
 
That pretty much sums up why I think a lot of boneyard guns are painfully overpriced, especially when the fault(s) is(are) unknown.

Especially since they're usually models that are a bit tricky to source parts for or fix.

You have no idea if the user is just incompetent enough to not fix it, or incompetent enough to complete fuck it, and it's a fine margin really. I've seen some absolute unga bunga shit in tech advice groups after someone throws a tantrum after stripping a screw because they have no tool skills.
 
Every single time.

I remember that bloke who wanted a grand for 2 AKs that had been run through more than Bonnie Blue. He couldn't specify the fault but insisted it was an "easy fix" for both. So easy he couldn't do it himself or get a tech to do it.

Unless the gun is something that's become highly collectible, sellers should understand they're selling on risk to a buyer for a boneyard gun with an unknown fault so they should mark it down toward a worst case scenario where the buyer assumes the repair will be expensive in parts and labour to do but they could be lucky and it really is an easy and inexpensive fix.

Personally, I think boneyard guns with unknown faults are like buyouts of failed businesses or businesses on the brink of failure. The buyer pays a hugely reduced fee for the assets while agreeing to take the debts & liabilities off the previous owner, and spend money to fix the problems. Just my $0.02.
 

I suspect this is a scam. Someone more skilled with reverse image searching can probably confirm for me. The seller listed a GBBR under electric guns but on the seller's profile, so many different backgrounds for his listings are a huge red flag.
 
Agreed, that's definitely dodgier than a £9 note. The seller claims to be in Ireland but a Google lens search shows the pics on a french site called NaturaBuy and a faceache page called Aerographe Fockeur, again french.

Also water transfers? As in the same thing used to put markings on airfix models? They'll come off the moment it rains or knocks against something harder than dairylea
 

I suspect this is a scam. Someone more skilled with reverse image searching can probably confirm for me. The seller listed a GBBR under electric guns but on the seller's profile, so many different backgrounds for his listings are a huge red flag.

99% of the listings from IE seem to be stolen photos sadly
 

I suspect this is a scam. Someone more skilled with reverse image searching can probably confirm for me. The seller listed a GBBR under electric guns but on the seller's profile, so many different backgrounds for his listings are a huge red flag.
Looks like it's from a French page Naturabay or something.
 

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Looks like it's from a French page Naturabay or something.

So there's 3 websites that they get their photos from. It seems the god awful AI generated backgrounds to avoid reverse image searching has stopped being used at least...

MG-Props - A UK website, you can tell it's their photos by the basket and green grass background
NaturaBuy - French website, doesn't get used as much, you can usually tell it's taken from there by the poorly worded descriptions - Usually ran through a translator then posted
Ebay.com - Unlike the UK, US Ebay allows the sale of airsoft replicas. The usual tell tale sign is the orange muzzle device, or they'll have the American company name i.e S&T is Matrix
 
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