leasing guns

[shatis]

Have you guys ever tried leasing, giving out your guns to use for rental. If you have how does it work and how much would you charge haha. leasing my guns has been on my mind for some time.

[Cannonfodder]

Leasing to who? If you mean other players that sounds like a great way to get your guns broken, or worse, stolen. People tend to treat rented things way worse than if they owned them and the cost of repairs will be far more than you'll make. Not to mention I doubt any site owner will be happy about it.

[Gunboat Diplomat]

8 minutes ago, shatis said:

how does it work

With your guns being either broken or stolen would be my initial answer.

 

What are you thinking?  People collect them from your home and then take them to their site of choice?  Or you are going to go to a specific site and rent them out of the boot of your car, presumably undercutting the site’s own rental prices?

 

Case A sounds like a recipe for never seeing any of your kit again.  Case B sounds like some angry site operators telling you to clear off.

Or did you mean leasing to a site operator to use to supplement their own rental stock?  If so, I expect no-one will take you on as their insurance is unlikely to cover it.

[BigStew]

Used to be friends with a site owner, he didn't keep enough reserve hire guns so I a few of use who considered him a friend lent our spare guns to the rentals who guns had failed. All of us got broken guns back and no offer to pay for them to be fixed. One of the reasons we ain't friend any more. Most airsofters have the mechanical sympathy of an enraged gorilla that goes double for hire players. When I have marshalled had too many hire players hand back a broken gun with a pistol grip so hot you can fry an egg on it and a barrel full of woodlands.

Edited 3 hours ago by BigStew

[shatis]

hahah Maybe ill clear of that idea than. Might just lease it to close friends ahah

[BigStew]

5 minutes ago, shatis said:

hahah Maybe ill clear of that idea than. Might just lease it to close friends ahah

You lend guns to mates. once they pay for something you need to supply a service and unless you have a contract what happens to your guns is your problem. This sort of thing is the reason friendship ends. If you loan some one a gun you either have to not care if it breaks or trust your friend enough that they will do right by you.

[Cannonfodder]

As above. Lend them out to trusted mates on the clear understanding that they pay for any damages. If they don't like this or you don't trust them then maybe they're not as good friends as you think

[Impulse]

I sometimes let friends borrow my guns within reason. I would have to really like you to let you borrow my Tanakas, and they all know that if they damage it, they're paying for the repairs.

 

But I would never ever ever entertain the idea of letting randoms borrow my guns. I've let new airsofters shoot some of my guns on the range so they can see what they shoot like and feel like (often people who are thinking about getting into sniping or GBBRs, since that's generally what I use), but that's totally under my supervision and instruction.

Edited 2 hours ago by Impulse

[Baser]

Happy to lend guns/kit to select friends as it’s how I got into the game.  Other friends, ham fisted gorillas, or unknowns can rent from site as I don’t have the time or cash to repair my bent/knackered kit. 
 

I have a finance background and leasing is fine if you know what the equipment is going to be worth at the the end of the lease (within reason) and an agreement (with a credit or debit card backup) with the person using the kit on the condition it will come back in.  Cost of running this type of agreement and the associated agro make it unprofitable for most used cars yet alone airsoft kit. 

[Adolf Hamster]

Lent, and loaned, many a pew in my time, even equipped first timers with hpa'd e&l's and handed off pews mid-firefight. Its something you do for folk you know will at least respect your pew.

 

But never charged, thats just inviting a mess of expectation and liability.

[Rickwales]

I've brought a couple of cheap m4s to let my mates and my sons mates use, to encourage them into the hobby and lower the costs when they join us. £100 ish, but won't let them have optics or tracers on them. I also brought a cheap Sniper rifle for £50 for a skint disabled mate so he can get involved too. 

That's as far as my generosity goes tho. Won't let em touch my more expensive gear.