Dan Robinson

How do you expect to sell stuff if you don't publicly disclose where its sold?

How do you expect to sell stuff if you don't publicly disclose where its sold?

We would have been fookked on many levels if they did this when I was at university.   
 
After we left halls (a large house just of campus) apparently we were the straw that broke the camels back and next year it was converted to an Islamic Studies department. 
 
Multiple times the Student's union bar manager had to walk 300m up the river bank to ask us to turn our music down 😎.
 
University tradition was to invite final year students to return to halls.....we had no such invitation.
 
Academia was very much second fiddle to the University of Life.  Thinking about the carnage we caused with hair clippers and CO2 fire extinguishers.... I dread to think what could have been achieved with RIFs and pyros.  🥶.
 
Fun times.  Thankfully the year before a Labour (of all things) government brought in tuition fees.
 
 
One of the first things we did in private rentals was work out how to "hinder" the smoke alarms.   It was embarrassing how often they went off during Fresher's Week......    Of which I have stories I will not risk the boy reading here 🫣.    Long live the 90's.

That might have been Sentinel near Tring/Dunstable. ..but Snipers and DMRs were banned when I went there.

I've been there 3 or 4 times over the last 18 months....the first time I seem to recall having mixed feelings on the marshalls,  but we did have a blast the other times. 
 
 
Will make a point of coming to Red Alert and see if we can bring a party of 5 or 6. 👍 
 
 
The boy is fishing for a 2 day event this summer..... he hasn't shot anyone since August. 

I've been there 3 or 4 times over the last 18 months....the first time I seem to recall having mixed feelings on the marshalls,  but we did have a blast the other times. 
 
 
Will make a point of coming to Red Alert and see if we can bring a party of 5 or 6. 👍 
 
 
The boy is fishing for a 2 day event this summer..... he hasn't shot anyone since August. 

London is rather large ...  roughly which bit?  Do you have your own transport?  How far are you willing to go?
 
 
Welcome to the site!
 
The last thing to worry about is a social network of airsofters...  I regularly go on my tod.  Airsofters are a friendly bunch.

London is rather large ...  roughly which bit?  Do you have your own transport?  How far are you willing to go?
 
 
Welcome to the site!
 
The last thing to worry about is a social network of airsofters...  I regularly go on my tod.  Airsofters are a friendly bunch.

Wycombe Skirmish? I've heard it's improved. The site was always fine, but the marshals were appalling. 
Teenagers that gave no shits at all. 
I need to give it another try. 
 
Red Alert, on the other hand, has devastatingly handsome, witty and humble marshals. 😁

Haven't been to Red Alert yet, but probably will in the summer when the boy is back as we have friends living in Lower Early.
 
High Wycombe is also very good with nice safe zone a food options. 

Nobody move, this is a threadjack!
 
You're in the Reading area? Come over to Red Alert airsoft, where you'll also find @StackUpAirsoft
 
Okay, threadjack over, as you were. 😁

I am grateful to all the people who contributed with helpful answers. Thanks to their advice, I decided to approach one of the retailers and explain my situation to them via email.  Fortunately, the Airsoft retailer responded positively, allowing me to send the required photos ( My airsoft pictures )
This is excellent news for me as I can now avoid purchasing a second-hand or two-tone airsoft gun. 
I am delighted to have received such a warm and friendly response from everyone on this platform. I hope to find the same camaraderie and guidance on the airsoft field as well.
 live in Henley-on-Thames and have recently moved here. I have two options to choose from Highwycome and Reading. I plan to give both a try and hopefully find my ideal team in the UK for a long-term.
@RorySending RIFs to Europe via airplanes is a viable option. However, it can be challenging to send them to the UK for non-citizens. I have attempted to send them myself, but I encountered several diplomatic demands via email that made it difficult to proceed. Perhaps there are alternative ways but we dont know yet.

If there's no screws left over at the end 👍
If there's screws left over but it goes pew 👍

Muppet 😂

Nah, that was an AAP-01
 
I basically said £700 for a pistol?
 
The reply was along the lines of "you're obviously not a speedsofter or you'd know"
 
I was typing my witty reply & the thread disappeared.

Bring your own. Talking to the owner they've looked into having a local  burger van or similar but from what they said nobody is really interested as they'd need a minimum of 30 to make it worthwhile. Not really an issue for me as in my experience the food provided at many sites is a bit crap

Duck

Today South Herts Airsoft had their first midweek game and unlike many other sites where they're only in the evening this was a full day. Numbers were very low with only 6 a side but as the site is relatively small this wasn't a problem and the low numbers meant games were more tactical rather than the meat grinder which can happen with greater numbers. Hit taking was excellent and I heard no grumbles or complaints. In fact the only negative part of the day was self inflicted as I sent myself arse over tit running for cover and it was only when the adrenaline wore off I realised I'd landed in a load of stinging nettles 
 
All in all I hope this will be the first of many midweek games as I can't always get to games on sundays and I wholeheartedly recommend anyone in the Hertfordshire area give them a try

Duck

FNARRR!

Had a very long but enjoyable day at Special Ops' new CQB site.
 
Day started off a bit pooh though with me arriving without my battery bag.  So had to rag it home in the car to get back in time for the briefing.
 
I lost track of the number of  games we played, but numbers started off with around 20 players.  This dropped off significantly at lunch time; then again at 4pm there was only 9, then at 5 ish there were only 4 of us.
 
Game of the day fro me was the VIP games where teams took it in turns to get the drunk VIP from the pub to the car at the opposite end of the building.  Lots of close calls and last minute reprieves for both sides to be had.  Then we had various rolling retreats, TDMs and "Get to the Choppa" games.
 
Once the numbers were down to single figures we had the pyramid game where each player on a team was given a number; which resulted in said numbers being the rotation of the players in the game.  At the start player 1s would be 1v1, then when that player died, they'd get player two for their side and so on.  5th kill was the end.  This was a great game as the sides were very evenly balanced with a speedy boi softer on each side, a youngling/first timer, an experienced slower player and someone in the middle.  The twist was that the game was played 4 times and they rotated the numbers around so every player got a chance to be 1v1.
 
When it was just the 4 of us left; I was the more experienced, and physically much bigger player.  There was a 14 year kid who was tiny, but turned out to be a deadly shot with his Glock which he was using for most of the day.  There was an American teenager on his first time and an older teenager who is a regular at the outdoor site.  This American dude got a tooth shot out in the morning in a freak incident with his full face mask, but he got back in the game and seemed to enjoy himself.
 
We had a blast of "winner stays on", 2v2, and a fun game where I was a guard patrolling the centre of the game area on a fixed path whilst the remaining younglings had to sneaky sneaky around to get to the bank to retrieve the gold.  Little buggers were lucky that when they made a dash for it, one of the marshalls was in the way LOL.
 
Get to the Choppa was an unmitigated disaster for our team as the opposition had Thomas - the notorious Special Ops runner - and twice in a row they won the game in less than a minute with barely a shot fired.  In my defence, I nearly got them on their approach, but my pistol mag had decided (unbeknownst to me) vent itself and pulling the trigger resulted in sweet feck all.
 
Due to my size I tended to stick out past walls and couldn't always duck low enough for cover.  As a result, I was domed more times than I can remember.  I also managed to get a BB up my nose.  Which I didn't notice until talking to a player at respawn and it rolled out mid sentence, much to his humour and my surprise.  Comedy moment of the day also fell to me as I snuck up behind someone in the Bank and stood there with my pistol pointed at him for a good 20 seconds deciding where to shoot him - which in the end was the back of his helmet.  The overseeing marshall and I exchanged a knowing glance. 😎
 
 
Its a great venue.  I think 30 players is the practical limit before overcrowding and bottlenecking becomes an issue.  Ironically as the numbers dwindled the day got more fun.  Not because of the players, but Carlos and the marshals adapted the games to match the players.
 
I have never run pistols as much as I had today.  The Specna is still having troubles, so I needed up with my Double Eagle as rifle of choice, one of my WE glocks isn't cycling properly; but fortunately I had a spare (of course) and the Boy's TM Glock also served me very well.  I managed to get all my mags leak free so was well stocked with 6.  Also the Double Eagle was throwing out .2s bang on 349FPS, and won me a few lovely kills, one of which was the 14 year old whose eye level was the same as the partially opened window of the delivery van - I got him from the far end of the building under the tail of the Choppa.
 
 
The day was certainly better than I expected - as a Woodland player mainly - and getting game play from 10am to 6pm (including a lunch break) was great.  Now i am resisting the urge to buy a better pistol and a tracer unit. 
 
My face and legs however look like a dot to dot picture, and the guy behind the counter of my local shop wondered what had happened.   Hopefully they will go down before the big family Easter Dinner tomorrow LOL.
 

 

 
 
 

And thats fine, if its advertised as that. I would have paid it just to have the online badge but thats not what was offered. I pay the same amount to be a subscribing member of a motorbike forum that gives you acces to a particular section of the site. Im on here much, much more than that one but its fine because they were upfront from the beginning. It's not about the actual patch anymore, its the principal. We've been offered a product, paid in good faith, then completely ignored numerous times.
Maybe the buy a patch page needs changing to say that your only getting an online patch and the money goes to the site upkeep.
 
Good effort at trying to placate me with the idea of being one of the cool kids though! 😁

You'll need to aim for 310fps for .25s.  Otherwise your gun will be too spicy.