Site Closure / Edinburgh Airsoft (Land Warrior Store's Site)

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Announced earlier today that Edinburgh Airsoft , the site run & operated by retailer Land Warrior will not be re opening

another victim of the financials of COVID-19 

Announcement from their Facebook page earlier today after our first minister confirmed a longer ease to lockdown

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Enid_Puceflange said:
Announced earlier today that Edinburgh Airsoft , the site run & operated by retailer Land Warrior will not be re opening

another victim of the financials of COVID-19 

Announcement from their Facebook page earlier today after our first minister confirmed a longer ease to lockdown

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Thats second site on here this evening thats closed. Sad days indeed. Hope our local site manages to keep its head above water?

 
thats close to homr fot me :( and one i was intrested in visiting :(

 
rip my local site, gonna have to search for another that doesn't require a car

 
AK47frizzle said:
rip my local site, gonna have to search for another that doesn't require a car
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There are two which are relatively easy to get to......

Enemy Down (a bus will drop you right at its gate on the a71 - just past Herriot Watt uni)

Battle Zone which is near south queensferry, closer to kirkliston ( well served for buses)

 
From the small amount I’ve seen on the effect Covid’s having on airsoft it’s seems to be the bigger better sites that are suffering the most and closing down , the crappy ‘half a dozen sandbags and a couple of rotten fence panel in a wood’ ones don't appear to be suffering half as much . Think it’s safe to say it all comes down to revenue(or more precisely LACK of any real revenue being generated over the past yr)that’s really killing them .
Good sites have larger numbers of staff , needs greater upkeep , must have good usable facilities , needs advertising to regularly keep numbers up to make the business Viable to work = bigger outgoings . 
Crappy sites on the whole don’t have many staff , have zero facilities , minimal upkeep due to nothing really needing to be maintained to any great standard and gets by on word of mouth and can still run game days with half a dozen players turning up so negligible outgoings ?

just my two pennies worth on it .?

 
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Druid799 said:
From the small amount I’ve seen on the effect Covid’s having on airsoft it’s seems to be the bigger better sites that are suffering the most and closing down , the crappy ‘half a dozen sandbags and a couple of rotten fence panel in a wood’ ones don't appear to be suffering half as much . Think it’s safe to say it all comes down to revenue(or more precisely LACK of any real revenue being generated over the past yr)that’s really killing them .
Good sites have larger numbers of staff , needs greater upkeep , must have good usable facilities , needs advertising to regularly keep numbers up to make the business Viable to work = bigger outgoings . 
Crappy sites on the whole don’t have many staff , have zero facilities , minimal upkeep due to nothing really needing to be maintained to any great standard and gets by on word of mouth and can still run game days with half a dozen players turning up so negligible outgoings ?

just my two pennies worth on it .?
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i do agree, farmer joe's "you mean people will actually pay to run around my farm one day a week?" business is going to be much more tenable than an organised business renting an old industrial warehouse etc.

it's a shame, because whilst the former can hide many hidden gems, i feel the latter is what airsoft very much needs more of.

 
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