Rogerborg

That take is edgier than the spud peeler that Druid had the temerity to import.

In bulk though, and selling from stock. When we're talking about items that they have to order, track and send on individually, and customers bugging them with "were gun tho m8?" on a daily basis, I expect any profit margin is soon going to get swallowed up in extra staff time.

To be very grudgingly fair, that would run you £350 in Bogging Blue from PatrolBase, and I can't see it in stock anywhere else. If you pretend the battery and BBs are worth anything, you can get the retail price to £375. To be fairer though, what's the market for someone who wants all the features of an Evolution Airsoft gnu, but in two tone? I guess it's teenage sons who want a better PC now.

Shame, but I was surprised that they ever did it. Handling custom orders on an ad-hoc basis was always going to be much more expensive for them than flogging stuff from stock.

There's a lot to be said for going for a reliable older model rather than the freshest thing on the market, whether it's toy guns, cars, or girlfriends.

I think it's fairly apparent that this answer is from someone who not English as their first language speaks. Not a criticism, but it's impossible to comply with contractual terms that can't be explained cogently by the people whose job it is to do that. What I'm not going to do is to ask a leading question about airsoft, since I want to avoid an answer of "Very sorry I am to be informing you that all gun soft airs firearm are prohibit most strictly."

Update again: <eye-roll.gif> I've asked (again) for the actual text used internally by PayPal to decide UK transactions, not for a summary, synopsis, interpretation or opinion. I'm not holding my breath.

Sorry, I have to agree that this won't particularly useful given that I'd always encourage first getting the air seal as good as possible, then changing the spring. It would certainly be interesting to see comparisons, but there are just too many variables involved, starting with individual chrono, for it to be more than a scatter plot.

Secret definitions put them on shaky footing. Contra proferentem seems to apply here: they drafted this contract, so any ambiguity in it would ultimately be decided against them. I'm flirting with their chatbot just now, let's see if I get anywhere beyond "Thank you for your query, fellow human..." UPDATE: Timed out before a response, I broke their simulated brain.

Or someone talked over it, or the marshal got distracted and missed that one point on that one day, or they've got hearing problems - something I've never heard mentioned at any brief, anywhere, ever (maybe it wasn't said loud enough). To be clear, I fully agree that all rules are only meaningful if enforced on the field. However, we live in a society that's both litigious (boo) and inclusive (yay), and "I'm sure I said..." won't satisfy either of those.

I should really get myself a tip jar.

Wouldn't it be nice though to not hear "Oh, nobody told me that", or "That wasn't covered in the briefing" ? There's another very good reason to have a tangible rules-board. When a lad got blinded at Absolute Airsoft when his chum shot him in the eye in the safe zone with a BB still in the hop, the point of contention was that "they were not told that unfired pellets had to be cleared from guns before they were brought into the safe zone".

I'm going to be contrarian and say that this is a total Chad advert. Chadvert? It's completely honest, no flim-flam, raw thirst trap for NGRS simps. Respect.

Mmm, it's a constant risk that the first or only person to answer a question might be Billy Bullshiter. I'm a serial replier (hello), but will always try to distinguish between what I've heard and what I've tried. I prefer "I don't know, but have a hug" than giving a Redditard answer just to harvest dopamine. Even within the personal-knowledge category, I'll caveat it out the wazoo with "for the specific examples that I received, when I received them" because of @ak2m4's point that last week's widget made in a batch by Genericorp, distributed in a container by Wholesellers Inc. and grabbed off the shelf by Tactical Customs Ltd may be entirely unrelated to what you'll receive next week.

They've been back and forth on it a few times, and I'm sure they have purple-haired employees who will potato-screech and ban the face off of anyone flogging so much as a toy cap gun. However, at the moment, the UK prohibition is on "(j) ammunition, firearms, or certain firearm parts or accessories". They don't mention imitations or replicas, and airsoft guns (under 1.3J / 2.5J) are not firearms (for the purposes of the Firearms Act 1968). https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full We could ask their CS goons, and it might be interesting to see how many different answers we get. I agree with not putting "Real replica imitation firearm shooter gun" on the invoice, but "Jing Gong G36C" or similar is specific without being overt and at least gives you some options. I'd rather have something on an invoice than no invoice at all.

We've raised it to an artform here. Fair point, and they can be presented separately. I'm sure we've all seen the difference between rambling digression briefings and someone who really knows what they're doing rattling through one clearly and concisely. This gets us back to the question of why sites don't just put the critical rules on a board, stick it up at the game zone entry, and say "Read that before you go out there, feel free to ask questions, don't plead ignorance."

If anyone has to ask, the marshal should have explained it in the first place. If they don't explain and nobody asks, everyone is going to have different opinions. The biggest trigger (tee hee) for me in briefings is "You all know..."

Agreed, I get twitchy when I see some stable genius posting the latest video of their brrrrt-cannon shredding cans and metal plate. The 1.3J auto limit in particular is likely based on an assumption of short AEG bursts at about 15rps. A steady stream at 50rps from an HPA proton pack is a rather different proposition. This isn't something that we want revisited.

Most decent sites will have a prohibition about over-shooting. Some of them might even mean it. I'd have a friendly, constructive word with them about the incident, not making a big issue of it, just asking what their position is. It might turn out that the chap is a Marshal's Mate or the site owner's nephew or similar, and they'll shrug it off. Or it might be that he's a serial offender who's on his last warning. Either way, you'll know the site's actual policy on wanker-gunnery.

I'm usually torn between sympathy and sighing at folk trying to flog some massive bundle of random stuff at wildly optimistic prices. Here though, asking for the full new price for the RIFS in return for some free gifts, half of which you'd have trouble giving away at a bring-and-buy, in the middle of winter...

Oh, I should clarify, on the rare occasions when I sell things online, I send a PayPal invoice listing the item, shipping and total cost. When I'm buying, I ask for one: https://www.paypal.com/invoice/s/create When that's paid, I consider it sold (or bought), and not before. This serves as the record of what's been promised, and asked. AFUK is just a listing service, not a party to the sale, and nothing said here is going to matter much in the event of a dispute, only what the payment processor can see on their records.

Beat me to it. If I asked a site owner and two marshals, I'd expect two or three different answers. Ask again on the next day and I'd expect one or two of them to have forgotten or changed their minds. Personally I assume it means both: present yourself as a target, and be able to see what the muzzle is pointing at. I phrase that last one carefully because not all guns have sights, or are shoulder-fired, and the important consideration is to be sure that you're not going to point-blank someone in their earball. Anyone having a frothing fit because they see a toy being used in a manner that doesn't precisely match the technique in their Grammaton Cleric Gun Kata Boys Annual 2003 needs to cut themselves a a big slice of perspective cake.

I wouldn't use that system. Same rules as I do for any face-to-face classified selling: if the advert is still up, it's still available. It comes down when money has changed hands, and not an instant before. Agreed about the frustration of dealing with fantasists. I try to be scrupulously honest, clear and unambiguous when selling and buying anything. It's rare - but all the more welcome - when that's reciprocated.

Good to hear it, it's great that got sorted so easily. Sad news about DPD as they seem to be the least unreliable around here, but it all comes down to the individual delivery driver in the end.

No-full-auto-in-buildings-bro. That's a wanker gun, used by wankers. Unless you're playing speedsoft at a site full of similar overshooting spam-gibbons, please don't try to emulate it. My local CQB site runs a 3-shot-then-pause rule, which they actually monitor and crack down on. There's no need to be sending solid streams of BBs in CQB. I mention that rule actually being enforced because airsoft is rife with things which are "banned" but still happen regularly. For all you know, that bloke's ripping off full auto bursts and nobody is pulling him up on it.