If You Have Sold A Gun, LOOK HERE!

[Vanilla Bloke]

If you have sold a gun in the last TWO MONTHS, I would appreciate it if you sent me an email of the gun type, i.e. Nasty Impulse, Dynasty Shocker or any other "High End Gun", and the price you sold it for. Also include the original price you were asking for. Your name will not be mentioned in this process.

I am getting a Blue Book type data base for paintball guns. I am posting this on all major forums. What I'm hoping this will do is:

Give Buyers a good idea of what their purchase is worth
Give Traders a good idea of what makes a trade "equal"
Give Sellers less room for rediculous prices

This process will in essence help buyers of used guns. I know quite a few people have complained about how bad the market is out there, this is your chance to help cure that.

Email: bunkerboy2k4@msn.com

Include

Type of gun (Angel, Smart Parts, Bob Long, Etc.)
Specific Gun (A4, FLY, Nerve, Shocker)
Your Original Asking Price
You and your buyers Finalized Price


Please, do not include trades.

-Drew

[1boobfromSector 7-G]

This is great ideal, and you should be rewarded for this ideal, infact at one point I thought about during something like this. But what do you do about if somebody sold an 03 vision shocker for $750 five months ago, but you will not be able to get that now for the gun because of the 04 shockers.
Then what if one person sold a DM4 bone stock for $1000, but then another person sold another DM4 with some upgrades for $1150, then another was sold for $1300 with custom milling, that was team gun, and was upgraded to the MAX. Then a 8 months from now due to the future release of the DM5 it would be hard to get those exact same prices.

It just got way to complex for me what with the release of new guns/boards/rare Ano. fades/every changing market of what is a cool upgrade, but if you can pull it off I would love to have a link to your blue book just to see how you did it. I am not really trying to put you down, but man it just got to hard for me.

[Vanilla Bloke]

Yea, I know what your saying. I have thought about this idea for a long while. I figured that if gun "A1" had a massive amount of upgrades and gun "A2" had none, that would create an average for the overall gun catargory. I have alot of catagories for every "high end" gun out there just to factor in team guns and custom anno's etc.

Thanks for the support!

EDIT: Btw, i plan on having this to be an on going thing, so as the market elvolves, so will the list.

[Hep]

Well not sure how this is gonna go but I can tell you in the mobile electronics industry at my shop we give the customer 25-35% of the retail price if they are trading or selling it back to us. And thats in mint condition and box/manual/parts are included. But you also gotta remember we have to resale it to make a profit. So basically you bought a $200 cd player a couple months ago and if its still mint or close with all parts you will get $50-70 or so back on trade. Then we will inturn resale it for about $100-120 or so. No exact science to it but just a rule of thumb and Im sure the paintball world will not work the same. Being that most Consumer electronics are debut in Jan. at the CES show and most companies release the new product with in weeks of it and dont make any model changes until the next year. Basically like cars are made and sold. But with paintball guns being debut all year long I dont think it will work. And there is a Blue book for home/car electronics also. Orion Reserch I believe is the company that does it for our industry and other so maybe look that up and see what you get for an idea.