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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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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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31 minutes ago, 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.

 

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.

 

 

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8 hours ago, 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

 

 

"It has a custom paint job and is fading a bit."

 

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30 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

 

Man he should've just bought a HPA converted AEG

If he wanted recoil not really, cracking price for just the gun on it's own though to be fair to him.

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7 hours ago, CrackPipeCallout said:


Have we had this dreamer yet?

 

 

I was gentle on him as he was less than forthcoming initially about the engravings and damage he'd mentioned. It was a single image at first that showed neither.

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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.

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17 hours ago, Lyndication said:

 

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

 

Especially if the original BCG isn't included, it's been gimped.

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.

17 hours ago, CrackPipeCallout said:


Have we had this dreamer yet?

 

I'm pretty sure we have but I could be thinking of any APFG seller tbf.

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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.

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17 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

How is it plebeian to use the more expensive option? 

 

If you have UKARA then importing is literally a piece of piss.

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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13 minutes ago, BigStew said:

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.

 

It's pretty near impossible for something imported to be more expensive unless you're buying extremely rare items or buying from stores that hyperinflate prices off the get go (RWA or WGC). 

 

Also strength of USD to GBP is fairly irrelevant, if the store is using HKD or NTD as its primary currency.

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I import cos I'm a bit cheap lmao. 

 

People will buy a million things off Ali Express then act like importing a RIF will get you shot, it's a little silly. Worst case scenario yeah it gets held up a bit but it's pretty rare so long as the UKARA is denoted on the package. 

 

Getting a lemon on arrival sucks but the advantage of GBBRs is that it's rarely fatal unless the gun is cracked in half or something. I've had lemons from "trusted" techs and UK shops with some headaches remedying it, so it's par for the course IMO.

 

Also yeah, USD can go full Zimbabwe Dollar but it doesn't affect NTD - GBP exchange rates. 

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1 hour ago, BigStew said:

But this last year you didn't save money importing.

 

In the last year i've imported a bunch of guns and consistently saved 30-40% all said and done.

 

One package was stuck in customs for weeks, but it eventually cleared and all was well.

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1 hour ago, GiantKiwi said:

 

It's pretty near impossible for something imported to be more expensive unless you're buying extremely rare items or buying from stores that hyperinflate prices off the get go (RWA or WGC). 

 

Also strength of USD to GBP is fairly irrelevant, if the store is using HKD or NTD as its primary currency.

I have no finance knowledge I have just found that when the dollar is weak against the pound other currencies ie Hong Kong dollar is weak (there maybe no colloration what so ever but it's just what I observed) and untill relatively recently once you added on postage and import taxes you weren't saving (or the savings was negligible).

4 minutes ago, Anonymoose said:

 

In the last year i've imported a bunch of guns and consistently saved 30-40% all said and done.

 

One package was stuck in customs for weeks, but it eventually cleared and all was well.

Sorry miss type meant to write "this time last year"

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