I guess my overall point is that if these benefits exist, why are they not front and centre over the 'British made' nonsense? Why are they having to be squeezed out on a forum?
Ok so I am of the opinion that everyone has the right to there own opinion and I will only state fact to clear up any misconceptions..
You're right - I only believe people who have an IP address registered in Sheffield with an account made less than 20 minutes before they post. I'm glad you're fully invested in just stating facts though and I'm sure there is in no way a conflict of interest here.
I guess we're needing to drill down into this some more though.
Ok so I am of the opinion that everyone has the right to there own opinion and I will only state fact to clear up any misconceptions.
The £40 Sniper One piece of tube is constructed and manufactured using different methods and better quality materials than the CZ piece of tube. I can not quite grasp how you think it is only £25 when you take the current exchange rates and shipping costs into consideration. More like £35 to £40.
I'd really like to know the difference in materials between the ASPUK and CZ bits of tube for a start. I'm not sure how you've managed to almost double the price of a product that by all accounts adds nothing but a logo. Again, Airsoft Pro stuff has been around for longer that the new ownership of ASPUK and then some - you stock it yourselves and have done for some time, so where's the blurb on why it's worth my money? What is there that sets this apart from stating it's made by a British company, slapping on a new brand and then marking it up.
Somewhat hilariously your own postage only works out 2 quid cheaper than the Czech one anyway. Even with exchange rates in the toilet as they are right now, you're looking at £44.98 vs. £36.15 - and this is on a single product. Not their pistons, guide rods, springs etc. - which are universally cheaper and we're of course assuming the user is buying more than a single part for this upgrade job.
My issue is not with the product you've made in a vacuum, but rather that it brings zero relative improvements to the table and this is glaringly obvious when you look at the complete absence of 'features' in the description you've written. Here's the entire product write-up for the cylinder:
Sniper One
Steel Cylinder designed for TM VSR Rifles.
Will fit other clones such as JG Bar10 and ASG Covert OPs.
Compatible with both the Sniper One and the EZ Trigger pistons.
And this isn't the only one of the 'Sniper One' products that's strikingly similar to almost every other accessible airsoft part out there that has a rather terse description.
The biggest moral issue I have with this is that it really is showing at least a subconscious level of contempt for your customer. Not able to come up with any tangible benefits for your product? Ok, no problem - let's just call it 'British made'. There's no need for innovation or even a description of what that benefit is - let's just hope their jingoistic tendencies make them buy it eh. Again, a British made product doesn't and shouldn't immediately just classify as objectively better. This is seriously lazy, but I know you're by no means alone in that. Again though, not really my primary point but an important one if you truly believe that you're able to appropriate the 'British made' characterisation as a byword for quality. It's the people doing that with no follow-up on why making this product in Britain is better for the customer that's meant it means little to many more people than it used to.
me but not only that the quality of materials and matching tolerances are second to none, and that is fact.
We can go on and on why one thing is better than another. None of the sniper one parts have broken the ceiling price already set but the likes of PDI and most are made with better materials and will better tolerances to fit the rifle.
example
lots of people will want to buy a cylinder head made from such low grade metals that it is unrecognisable to testing machines for a tenner and other will want to buy one that has had lots of thought go in to how it operates, why it does what it does and how it can be improved. Not forgetting Using the very best materials it can possibly be made from without costing more than others on the market. This is consumer choice as is yours.
Again, you can't just throw 'this is fact' on the end of a sentence and expect it to be accepted as such. You're going to need to give us at least an inkling of why your 'Sniper One' brand is worth the money that you've had to pay Dan and the money you've paid to have it made in the UK. PDI are extremely well known for using quality steel in at least their barrels, and I've yet to see a complaint about the alloys they use in their outer barrels on here or anywhere else. They have a pretty renowned pedigree just like Airsoft Pro (though at a different price point) so these are some bold statements. I just wonder why you've not bothered to put them in the descriptions of any of your products. Nothing said in any of these is new and I'm left wondering why, given this opportunity as the foremost retailer for springer parts in the UK that you've not spent more time on making these genuine competing products (again, not the case for all of them - the trigger certainly looks different).
Then again, I could be pretty jaded after this Nuprol debacle we're still going through right now.
Finally - and as an aside to this - please learn the difference between hear and here; their, they're and there; to and too; it's and its. I've noticed at least two cases on a single page where this is incorrect on your website:
https://www.airsoftsniperparts.com/product-page/ez-trigger-mk4-piston-spring-spring-guide
