Rogerborg

Off topic is the best topic. First, I didn't know that there was a "real" Odin when I got my knock off, I just heard about these magic "side winder" loaders, and ordered by cheapest on eBay. Brand recognition and marketing is Odin's to buy, or not. Second, well, yes, I am too cheap to pay £50 for an Odin loader. Really, no way, no how. Odin wasn't getting my money anyway. Likewise, TM didn't lose out because I bought a CYMA. If the cheapest toy gnus were £400, I'd never have got into this hobby in the first place.

I have a tan knock-off.

Asks that. Consider whether the "seller" really wants to shift it, or whether they're just doing it for form's sake. They're not magic, offer half the new price. Or just buy a CYMA and outrange them.

Sure, if you cheap out on TM plastic crap, what do you expect?

After many many many emails to "Evan" at Acetech "UK" (snort, guffaw), I was rather surprised to receive a text from DHL saying that my parcel from Acetech will be delivered next Tuesday. Followed by a demand for import duty, fortunately only £3.04, for my "LED SEARCH LIGHT". Well, well. Let's see what I actually receive, but it is looking like they do support their product.

Yes, I "helpfully" linked to the retail items. It does come with an extra clipazine, I guess, and is only slightly scuffed.

Oh, I wouldn't have another. I'm still having a back and forth with Acetech, who seem determined to drip feed everything they want me to tell them one email at a time, rather than just listing it all up front. Who do they think they are, airsoft site owners?

I know, right? It does feel weird, and I have a dislike for destruction and discarding rather than repair, but it wasn't for being fixed.

Mrs Borg had some issues with blowtorching the table. Destroy like squash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi5E_1jNhpo Email sent, let's see if they actually make with a replacement.

422 words invented by Shakespeare: https://www.litcharts.com/blog/shakespeare/words-shakespeare-invented/ Including "pedant".

Yup, they've confirmed. So: angle grinder, or blowtorch? I'll initially be destroying the internals and filing the branding off - I expect that their concern is with broken units being sold on and harming their brand. It'd be nice to be able to run the carcass as a bijou silencer or extender though.

Funner fact: bastarding Amazon was stripping the video link out of my messages, and Acetech wasn't making that clear, they were just asking for another video. I've since sent them a direct email with a link to that video, and got this rather peculiar reply: That's... peculiar. I've asked them to confirm that they really want me to destroy it, and that there's no misunderstanding here. Also: "squash" a lithium battery, nice try.

Video provided on Thursday, no contact since. At this point they've just wasted more of my time. I've followed up again, more out of interest about what the story will be now. (Fun fact: that was recorded in landscape mode, the file is in landscape mode, but YouTube has decided that it should be portrait, presumably because it was recorded on a phone)

Shot with an HPA pistol. It's OK, it'll be "tourney locked".

We're ideally looking for something like this:

Another little BUMP, after reviewing the unit on Amazon, ACETECH asked me to contact them, then asked for a video of the issue. They're not even suggesting that I send it back, just that if they reckon it's a unit fault rather than user abuse (how would they tell?) that they'll send another one as it's within a year of purchase. Let's see if they make good on that. I'm highly sceptical, which means I can only be pleasantly surprised.

Aww, bless, has be been trying to flog that since last June? To be fair, the externals and shell might be Well, but all the BB cares about at the bits that he's changed. No TDC though, so not "fully" upgraded, I'd argue. And I imagine it'll still be up by this June unless he puts a 2 at the start of that asking price.

That's my recollection too. The original purchasers got absolutely rinsed. But that's no reason that someone in the market for one now should pay anywhere near current retail, unless you really reeeeeally have to have one right now. Looks like the next batch won't be shipped (from Austria) before May.

Eh. Anything that's wrong with a pistol is likely to cost you less to replace the part than to post it back to Poland and wait 3 or 4 weeks in the hope that they might sort it.

This is why I always keep a PornHub tab open so that I don't get caught reading about airsoft.

Batteries, mags, foregrip, optic (not listed as included). None of which explains why it's £160 more than a brand new one. William, please understand that the retail price isn't what you paid for it, or the highest price that you can find. It's the lowest current price, which is indeed ~£210. And that's new. Used, you can knock a third off of that. That's if you actually want to sell it. If you don't, that's good too. Lots of folk list stuff that they don't really want to part with.

The guy selling them out of a suitcase on the beach assured me...

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I'll round your 2p up to a whole 5p. Very well noted.