Rogerborg

Ouch, sorry to hear that. It was brought to my attention that FOB airsoft are flogging Nov rifs and parts in the UK at the moment. No Flecktarn mankinis or whatever you ordered though. https://www.ukfob.co.uk/Novritsch-Airsoft

Well, to be a bit more serious, that's what I'm doing. 20+ miles rather than a wobble to the shops and back, and I'm trying not to keep it in Easy Mode all the time. I'll need to keep doing stationary cycling as well though. Snap, I've been out with a mad keen road biker chum that I'd been putting off riding with because I reckoned I couldn't keep up. Now he leads on the flat or downhill, and I cheat my way up the inclines, it's all good. It's an oft-abused phrase, but e-bikes really are a game changer. Just not ideal for fat losers, perhaps.

The only thing funnier than friendly-frag is medic-and-double-friendly-frag. Have you seen the latest teaser from the Depot's Facebook page? 12th September is being whispered, no idea where yet though or if it'll be a mates-only trial game.

+1 to this. I always brought a dump-pouch full of assorted torches to the big, dark indoor Depot CQB site to light up doors and stairwells and draw fire. It was actually kind of exploity, and I was happy to move them once a victim had cried foul.

I'll hitch up a rickshaw to my old non-electric bicycle and you can peddle me around.

Admission, I was doing so well with the cycling, then I bought an electrically assisted pedal cycle about a month back.

It is baffling. I can actually understand (if not agree with) dropping that much on a rare RIF, even if it's a wall hanger. But on an obvious toy that will shoot much the same as CYMA AK, no, I don't get it.

I tried this recently just out of interest and didn't get the super secret offer. Possibly it's only for new accounts, although it's not rocket surgery to obtain a new email address.

That is a fair point, although a lot of the stuff that BBgunz4nedz flog seems to come with stock gelcoat plastic parts, not painted over. If it's been charged for as a customisation service, then you can't return, but if it's a stock item, I can't see any problem with it.

Playing with dolls with silly made up rules. Completely ridiculous, not like playing with toy guns with silly made up rules.

Urgh, I haven't actually played tabletop mini games in... hmmm... decades. Last army I had was 40K Epic 6mm Marines, but GW have long since dropped that because the profits weren't there. When I look at the hilarious prices they're charging now for single minis, and their strategy of declaring that stuff they sold you literally last week can't be used in tournaments or in-store any more because "new Codex = all new minis", I just pity anyone getting into it now. I love what they created in the past, but loathe what they've done with it now.

If that's true then he can return it for a full refund. It's not, of course, which is why it's not worth anywhere near full retain price, let alone way over it. This chap has a history of flogging "as new" / "never used" stuff, and the previous ones are RIFS, so why is this an IF? Nothing hugely dodgy about that, but I rather suspect that he's a trader rather than a player.

That's not a completely frivolous point. I'd have a CYMA CM.045A at PatrolBase / TaiwanGun prices tomorrow, but it'll never reach me. At UK prices, nah. Also, it not being in stock helps with not buying it.

Sorry to hear this, and I do have some sympathy with TG, but you're the customer, you've paid them for a service, and you've got a broken item. I'd fire in without a moment's hesitation. Ignore whatever you've been saying directly to TG. Open a fresh PayPal dispute and just say that the item is completely non functional. Nothing else, no background, no "I used it for a bit and then it broke." If TG want to dump the history of your conversation in there, that's up to them, but you just stick to "Non functional, refund please." If PayPal don't resolve that in your favour, then you go on and do exactly the same thing with your credit or debit card issuer, and tell them to issue a chargeback against PayPal. Same process, just "non functional, seller refuses to fix." Best of luck, and hopefully it will be a simple fix. Worst case, you should be able to bin off the magic parts and just rewire it for a standard trigger, but then you're losing out on what you paid for.

Hmm, now I'm fascinated to see how the air seal and feed mechanism would work.

To the massive nascent market for niche toys in a niche hobby?

It's actually surprising that prices haven't jumped faster and higher than they have. Retailers are missing a trick, fortunately for us.

Sure, it would be interesting to see what you've come up with. It's not that insane an idea, you're just using a leaf rather than a coil spring to shove a piston down a cylinder, and let's be honest, we're all playing with toys. If it's draw-and-release rather than drawing to cock a latched spring, then consistency might be an issue, and CQB sites in particular might want to take a hard look about what it's really capable of, as opposed to how long a pull you use for chrono.

Damn, that's swole. Are you now, or have you ever been, an 8mm freak?

Well, that's a giant bag of dicks, and no mistake. What an appalling attitude. What site should we be avoiding?

And long term, it's a balance of trade issue. China sends us shiploads of cheap tat, and in return, we send them... not much, really, and very few bulk goods. That's one reason why prices have jumped, it's covering the costs of sending empty ships and empty containers back to Chinaland.