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

[Enid_Puceflange]

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

 

 

 

[Shamal]

3 minutes ago, 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

 

 

 

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

[Adolf Hamster]

1 hour ago, Shamal said:

Thats second site on here this evening thats closed.

 

as i mentioned in the other thread- lets hope this isn't the start of a theme.

[Misery]

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

[AK47frizzle]

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

[Enid_Puceflange]

On 25/02/2021 at 00:46, AK47frizzle said:

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

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)

[AK47frizzle]

10 hours ago, Enid_Puceflange said:

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)

ye been looking at enemy down, looks like nice terrain

[Druid799]

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 .👍

[Adolf Hamster]

27 minutes ago, 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 .👍

 

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.

[Enid_Puceflange]

2 hours ago, AK47frizzle said:

ye been looking at enemy down, looks like nice terrain

I have been playing the woods here , either paintball back in the day or Airsoft now since I was 17, so that’s just over 30 yrs 😂👍