Macks airsoft dreamers of the week thread

[ButcherBill]

My thoughts are... the seller feels guilty & they need to justify their price.

 

It's not a problem asking 100% of the retail cost if that's what you want (yes you'll end up back here but so what?), might take longer to sell the item & might drop your price a few times but you'll eventually get an offer, up to the seller if they accept it.

[EvilMonkee]

47 minutes ago, Amokura said:

Tbf, I have never seen the usual RRP justification by retailers. Its a VFC MPX licensed via Cybergun - of which its cheaper companion, the King Arms MPX-K offers far superior price-performance ratio.

There's really no point in buying one unless you're getting it at a severe discount and intend on changing most of the internals.

 

I should have attached this too, but the VFC 100rd mid-caps, do indeed hover around 40, whilst the King Arms 100rnd mid-caps tend to be below 18, and 10 from HK.

 

I should

Oh sweet child of Summer, you aren't long on here are you?  Avenger is one of our regulars in this thread...personally I would have banned him/she/it years ago...

[MrTea]

3 hours ago, EvilMonkee said:

Oh sweet child of Summer, you aren't long on here are you?  Avenger is one of our regulars in this thread...personally I would have banned him/she/it years ago...

Surprised it hasn't been taken down by the new rules in classifieds... yet. I wonder what what price it will reappear at. Also wondering if "dec 24" is a sufficient date as per requirements.

Edited December 9 by MrTea

[JimFromHorsham]

https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/item/59162-systema-ptw-built-and-modified-by-tac/

 

hey guys , so I massively overpaid by about £600-£700 for a broken shagged out PTW and then had to spend another £700 getting it sorted , so I’m here to pass that massive mistake on at a slight profit to myself , grab a bargain  🤦🏼‍♂️ 

[LMKipper]

I was just about to post that one. The service cost is basically sunk, be lucky to get £1k for the full package but more likely £800. 

Edited Tuesday at 17:33 by LMKipper

[Cannonfodder]

It always makes me laugh when someone thinks the servicing costs can be passed on to others 

[Tackle]

2 hours ago, Cannonfodder said:

It always makes me laugh when someone thinks the servicing costs can be passed on to others 

Lol, along with shite spray painting & dubious accessories usually.

[Galvatron]

21 hours ago, MrTea said:

Also wondering if "dec 24" is a sufficient date as per requirements.

 

I assume not given that the rules are (rightly) strict.

 

Whether it was applying for my mortgage, stating the end of my notice period when resigning from a job, filling in time sheets at work, I put always put the day number in the date.

 

 

[BYRNEMORGAN52]

14 hours ago, JimFromHorsham said:

https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/item/59162-systema-ptw-built-and-modified-by-tac/

 

hey guys , so I massively overpaid by about £600-£700 for a broken shagged out PTW and then had to spend another £700 getting it sorted , so I’m here to pass that massive mistake on at a slight profit to myself , grab a bargain  🤦🏼‍♂️ 

2 grand for a bombed out and depleted PTW is fucking mental.

[Galvatron]

https://www.usedairsoft.co.uk/bargian-bin/used-aeg_i71514

 

I assume this is that gravity-fed plinker. If so, the seller is asking for retail price despite the plinker being used and incomplete.

 

https://bbguns4less.co.uk/products/well-d90h-fully-auto-p90-replica-inc-target-in-blue.html

[Jaylordofwaargh]

https://www.airsoft-hub.com/item/35531-tokyo-marui-416d-kit

 

I want to go back to this one for shits and giggles.

 

I have a theory- there is mud in the lower face guard, I reckon they slipped in mud fell flat on their face and couldn't take the humiliation thus we have a (washed) clean gun and mud in the fave pro....

[LMKipper]

I have an opposing theory: it’s not mud, it’s vomit. 
 

They went to a game, mentally added up how much they’d spent on building a toy gun only to be shot by a 14-year-old with a rental, heaved then left and sold up out of embarrassment. 

[Tommikka]

22 hours ago, Tackle said:

Lol, along with shite spray painting & dubious accessories usually.

Limited edition custom

[Galvatron]

On 11/12/2024 at 18:35, Tommikka said:

Limited edition custom

 

That reminds me of a Mack's case I posted here long ago of a "custom paint job" that looks as if Helen Keller painted it using her feet.

Edited Saturday at 16:08 by Galvatron

[Tommikka]

On 09/12/2024 at 19:37, ButcherBill said:

 

 

It's not a problem asking 100% of the retail cost if that's what you want (yes you'll end up back here but so what?), might take longer to sell the item & might drop your price a few times but you'll eventually get an offer, up to the seller if they accept it.

Not quite the same, but I did something similar, asking for roughly the new price I had paid, but I had paid a much reduced sponsor / supported price 

 

It was genuinely hardly used due to the size of my armoury, and a specific limited edition colour/design and bagged in the original case that only came with a short original run.

Not that any value is added, but it had only been serviced by the manufacturer tech guy, and maintained by our certified team tech guy

 

 

There may have only been two in the country, and it’s the only one I had seen in the country 

(I say two because my team mate had put his name down for that colour version before we were offered a team deal, but couldn’t wait and took a standard - his may have sat on the shelf or I might have actually ended up with the one earmarked for him)

 

I decided to sell due to the value and lack of use - I had used it once and loaned it out 2 or 3 times.  However I wasn’t going to let it go cheaply as I didn’t need the money, otherwise I may as well hang on 

That meant I was in the situation of asking for X but getting low ball offers, I was open to offer but not willing to drop heavily 

 

I’d get low offers telling me that just because it’s a limited colour doesn’t mean it’s worth more (OK then - buy one of the many standard ones available), or that the colour was a little more widely available in the US (OK, go and import one then), also that there was a small rub on the barrel (OK, don’t buy it) and finally that a UK retailer was listing one from new (OK, try buying that one at full retail price - a few hundred £ more than me - until you get to the cart to be told it’s out of stock) 

 

It did take me something like a year to sell, during which time I got a couple of ‘one last time’ games with it ….. and sold it on eBay (breaching rules) at an acceptable offer and during a promotional fees discount selling a £1400 - £1500 retail gun, (I had paid nowhere near that - probably trade price) for about £50 to £100 less than I had paid and obtained some use from it, and it sold to somebody who appreciated the mainly visual limited edition elements 

 

 

A private sale can happily be made between two people for an agreed price, that one is willing to part for and the other is willing to pay

As long as one isn’t purely ripping off newbies with exaggeration then it should be fine

 

[Hudson]

A Christmas bargain!

 

Cyma M40A3 For only £400, and no details whatsoever.

You don't even get the scope. 🥲

 

https://prefired.co.uk/ads/cyma-cm-700a-m40a3-spring-sniper-rifle/

 

Edited Saturday at 10:43 by Hudson
Never mind, seen that's it's well over a year old after posting! 🤡

[Tackle]

1 hour ago, Hudson said:

A Christmas bargain!

 

Cyma M40A3 For only £400, and no details whatsoever.

You don't even get the scope. 🥲

 

https://prefired.co.uk/ads/cyma-cm-700a-m40a3-spring-sniper-rifle/

 

At that price, it might still be available 🤣

[Galvatron]

5 hours ago, Hudson said:

A Christmas bargain!

 

Cyma M40A3 For only £400, and no details whatsoever.

You don't even get the scope. 🥲

 

https://prefired.co.uk/ads/cyma-cm-700a-m40a3-spring-sniper-rifle/

 

 

I know we're in tough times at the moment drugs are never the answer.

 

That's the only explanation I can think of for charging more than double RRP when there isn't much of a scalper's market I'm aware of for that gun.

[Amokura]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186842736588?itmmeta=01JF39JN0B8Q3B5G51B0JNFJ42&hash=item2b80b1e7cc:g:5GMAAOSwSm1nXbNL

[GiantKiwi]

4 hours ago, Amokura said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186842736588?itmmeta=01JF39JN0B8Q3B5G51B0JNFJ42&hash=item2b80b1e7cc:g:5GMAAOSwSm1nXbNL

 

Guess someone didn't read Ebay rules about RIF's, as its gone now.

[Tackle]

51 minutes ago, GiantKiwi said:

 

Guess someone didn't read Ebay rules about RIF's, as its gone now.

Serves em right, sweeps together a pile of mismatched parts, & calls it an "airsoft starter kit", that's right up there with "action man deserter" & "military intelligence" for misleading descriptions.

🤣

[Enid_Puceflange]

11 hours ago, Tackle said:

Serves em right, sweeps together a pile of mismatched parts, & calls it an "airsoft starter kit", that's right up there with "action man deserter" & "military intelligence" for misleading descriptions.

🤣

TBF, there were a couple of tasty grenades in the bundle I was tempted with 😄