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Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

How far North are we talking?

I'm in Central Scotland & there's still a lot of North past me...

 
MrTea said:
Is that your experience of the site? I've been going well over a year now (I think) and it's nowhere near like what you're making out. There are always one or two special people like that who turn up at every site but the overwhelming majority of players are great and the marshalls make a great effort to correct problematic people but it's very rare there are any. The only time i've had a negative experience there was when a certain team of 4-6 people showed up and decided they were allowed to play by different rules than everyone else.
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I've not been in about a year or so, but yeah it's pretty much been like that when I've been.

Every time I've played there, bar one, has always been in the first paintball-style section closest to the safe zone.

Only once have I ever managed to play in the pines section (and this goes for the last three owners of the site prior to the current lot).

When I say HPA & drum mags, I don't mean that they're anything particularly bad or malicious with it, just that there seems to be higher percentage than one would expect (TBF, this seems to be common among most of the sites in the North east; and a large reason why I don't really bother attending any local sites anymore).

Games always seemed to be focused on short, fast scenarios where simply putting down rounds and hosing has been the name of the game; followed by everyone returning to the safe zone after every one only to come back out and do it again.

I've got nothing against the guys that run it, they've been absolutely fine on a personal level, it's just not been the type of gameplay that interests me, which is why I didn't want to name them; (besides some rather daft pricing for ex hire guns, they've not really done anything wrong, it's just not my flavour of Airsoft).

I've been doing this hobby for nearly 30 years, and You could even say Airsoft as a whole has been going this way in the past few years; which means I'm having to travel further and further afield to find somewhere that interests me.

All of the local sites are pretty much the same, so it's not confined just them.

 
Rather than take the thread further off topic than it already has been, i'll just drop you a DM.

 
Is that the same guy who was trying to flog it for ~£300? So it's actually knackered? I wonder if it was faulty when he had it listed originally.

 
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MrTea said:
Is that the same guy who was trying to flog it for ~£300? So it's actually knackered? I wonder if it was faulty when he had it listed originally.
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Same guy but he not only originally tried flogging it for £500, he misidentified it as Ares originally as well. He claimed to have video proof of it working in the past.

 
Galvatron said:
A "fully upgraded" DE Honey Badger that was marked down from £500 to £300 is now boneyard at £120 with a reported electrical fault.

https://prefired.co.uk/ads/broken-upgraded-honey-badger/

If you spend just £40 more, you can get a brand new working original with none of the internals being tinkered around with and without that horrible paintjob.

https://shop.super5ives.com/shop/item/133397/double-eagle-m904g.html
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"It has a custom paint job and is fading a bit."

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https://www.airsoft-hub.com/item/39880-nupal-pioneer

Not a Nuprol, not a Nurpol but a Nupal.

The seller wants £120 for a used two-tone where you can buy the arguably more desirable RIF for the same money, possibly less.

Also a classic bait-and-switch with the seller posting photos of the gun kitted up with a foregrip and holo sight only to disclose in the description that they're extra.

 
Lyndication said:
It's really not a cracking price, it's retail.

Especially if the original BCG isn't included, it's been gimped.
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Retail for those shipping from abroad perhaps but for the average plebeian buying in the UK can't fault him. Although using the hummingbird is a strange choice imo but different strokes I guess.

CrackPipeCallout said:
Have we had this dreamer yet?
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I'm pretty sure we have but I could be thinking of any APFG seller tbf.

 
It's an exaggeration Lyndication, if you can confidently order from abroad in to the UK like most experienced GBBR owners then the price is not 'cracking' fair enough.

But to those that steer clear from importing or aren't aware of Imported prices the gun is fairly priced. That's why it's 'plebeian', The most common GBBR user in the UK are just gonna buy based on UK prices.

Could be generalisation like but that's what I meant.

Think things might have got misunderstood there fella apologies.

 
Lyndication said:
How is it plebeian to use the more expensive option? 

If you have UKARA then importing is literally a piece of piss.
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Untill it's not. I personally have had to wait almost two months for a gun to clear customs, going back and forth with the carrier. There are also lots of people who have had guns dead on arrival with no come back. We also have to remember the Dollar is doing shite at the moment (not up to when it was $2 to £ like it was in the early  2000s) but this last year you didn't save money importing. A few times I payed more than I would in the UK but no one in the UK had them in stock.

 
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