Rogerborg

Pretty good day today with Ex-Workmate Eddie at Biohazard. Quick respawns, intense action, good hit taking, lots of pistol play and MP5K Master Race point-blank larks. They even started (almost) on time and kept the lunch and breaks short, we got a fair amount of actual play in. As usual though, the briefs were rushed through and full of "obviously" and "you all know", aimed at the regulars who do all know. If you think people don't need briefed, why are you doing a briefing?

Reality is a harsh mistress. The only "problem" here is that there are still sites out there who are chronoing like it's 1999. Can you please tell us which sites didn't spot that your toys were shooting hot, so that I can make a note to avoid them?

Buy it broken "mint", sell it broken "mint", break even?

It's exactly the same, and the postage is £6.50 versus his £8. https://www.fire-support.co.uk/product/tokyo-marui-glk-g34-gbb-pistol Sadly, they're out of sto- no, wait, they have 13 of them. Well, he knows what it's worth, all day long, mate. No chancer's going to mug him off, he wasn't born yesterday. It does bother me a little that folk with that level of mentation are on site with us. Although I rather suspect that doesn't apply here.

That's the bit that really winds me up, that we get spit-roasted with the VAT (and duty) at the point of import, and for the fee to calculate and pay it. If TG (and other retailers) charged the State mugging at the point of sale, then we could at least avoid UPS going in dry as well. And the downside to Patrol Base being able to get stock in this way is that if they're the only UK retailer to be able to get stock, then they can charge pretty much whatever they want. I'd prefer to see some competition - hopefully someone else will partner up with GunFire, or step up and start getting large enough orders direct from the Orient to start bringing their prices down towards TG/GF levels. But now we're in the sunlit upland of dreams.

£230 RIF. Two tone. Self described as badly painted black. Add some random Nuprol and 8Fields vendor trash. No warranty or even a claim that it actually functions. Worth £400 all day long, mate. (Plus shipping and fees, I have no doubt)

Fixed that for you.

That makes a lot of sense, although I'd want to be sure about the all-in costs before committing to an order. They seem a bit coy about VAT and shipping costs, plus their cut, and how regularly they get shipments. Still, it's good to have the option.

Thanks for turning this up, that about concludes the case for the prosecution. I worked for a company run like that, with a policy of only paying when court bailiffs turned up to collect the furniture. When they eventually went under, they renamed the company by reversing the name, folded it, then started a new company with the old name the next morning. They got away with this twice more before eventually running out of fresh suppliers and banks that they could scam into extending them more credit. The boss was the nicest guy you could imagine, pillar of the community, nothing was too much trouble for him... except for paying the creditors that he was ruthlessly ripping off. They slither among us.

Nobody said that they were. Why bring it up? I'm fine for QC rejects being sold at full whack, thanks all the same. Useful information for potential purchasers. I can prove I have fresh apples (how do you like them?), but that doesn't prove that my oranges aren't rotten. Nobody said there was. What a bizarre thing to refute. Well, I know whose reputation and integrity I'll be trusting based on the quality of this contribution.

Sad times. Have you sent a PM to nudge it along?

The squeaky wheel does get the grease, but the second mouse gets the cheese. That's not strictly relevant, until companies learn to put demanding callers to the back of the queue. A borg can dream though.

Yup, there's no reason that EU sellers can't add UK VAT at the point of sale, on any value of order. AliExpress can manage it. If they don't think it's worth their while to get set up to do it, that's fair enough, but given that the alternative is £140 minimum orders and the clown show of Customs and Border Farce, I can see them losing most of their UK market once word gets out or people have been stung once.

That's an astonishing question and statement. Phoning interrupts people and stops them doing what they were doing, i.e. helping other customers. Answering emails can be done in a block, more efficiently, while you're ready to deal with them. Then you're rewarding your highest cost, most demanding customers. Why not reward the ones who are helping you out instead?

A perfectly cromulent solution. I wear a belt and braces, but that's mostly just to hang an MP5K of. It's amazing how many mags you can stuff into the pockets of surplus shirts and trousers.

Ah, but this is only a 1J BB. Wait, surely using Airsoft Science, you'd get even more range from a 0.8J BB. (From a TM recoil, of course)

Mmm, if I wanted to beat it, I'd just point the GNU up in the air a bit, lob high cap after high cap, and wait for airsoft random magic (and the wind) to do its thing.

This is like a reenactment of the world's longest dick measuring contest, with the usual spats over top-or-bottom, shaft-vs-balls. Incidentally, none of these rules/guidelines appear to be listed on the Guinness site. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/96291-longest-airsoft-target-shot

Did she snatch your milk as well? Mind you, UPS would never have delivered it in the first place.

Oh, right, sod them then. The sooner they go out of business, the better.

Ouch, good for you, bad for TaiwanGun. I do have a lot of sympathy for them, and can see why they've just sacked off the UK as a money sink. What is your conscience saying? I honestly have no idea what I'd do. I mean, you have the goods, but now they're surplus and worth 2nd hand money to you. I wouldn't want to pay full price for them again, or pay to send them back.

Pretty fairly awesome today. My DMR was struggling and had move curves on it than Christina Hendricks, then locked up half way through the morning. But I quickly figured out the culprit, the idiotic Specna Arms quick-remove (why? whyyyy?) pistol grip base, which had popped out on one side and canted the motor. Replacement grip belatedly ordered now. Easily sorted, then a quick reseat of the barrel in the hop unit took care of the curve and then it was laser beam accurate out to 2,000 airsoft metres. I get that DMRs and snipers are very site dependent, but today was the happy hunting grounds for us, as the other team was rental-heavy and so focused on their objectives that they rarely realised that they were being flanked and picked off. When you can place yourself right, that extra 10m really does make a huge difference, if only by allowing you to be where they don't expect you. For once, my DMR got more use than the MP5K, although some castle storming was done as well. This was despite the day being badly run, with all the usual airsoft foibles: one clueless marshal on chrono, late starts, long delays, a mumbled "You all know the score" briefing, rentals gone wild, test shots in the first game and never again, and on and on. I can see why other people would have had a rotten day, but... .

For £200 I'd want a Chinese orphan to pop out and zero it in for me every game. Well, the usual suggestion. If you're not completely happy, invoke your statutory right to cancel the contract, no debate, no reason, just money back. If there's the slightest ambiguity in who's responsible for getting it back to them, or if they don't respond, then instruct your payment processor to initiate a chargeback. The sooner you do this, the sooner it will get resolved in your favour.