Where to sell paintball markers?

BDEE · 24 Oct 2012 at 10:25

Has anyone got any experience in selling their paintball marker?

The bay place will not allow it to be listed - I know I could sell each part individually on there but tbh that is a right chew on.

I want to avoid the chewy plant place too as it doesnt tend to yield much success.

Jono · 24 Oct 2012 at 10:30

local paintball sites?

ThomasTheTankEngine · 24 Oct 2012 at 10:31

Paintball forums are prob a good place to start. I've sold a lot of airsoft stuff via forums.

If you still play reguarly, or just live near a site, you could always ask them if you can put up a little for-sale advert there.

JHeaton · 24 Oct 2012 at 10:32

Have you tried paintball forums? Quite a few of them have classified sections.

King Damager · 24 Oct 2012 at 10:48

I think paintball forums might have a classified section...

kd

Disco Boy · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:06

Is a "marker" another word for a paintball gun? Why?

ThomasTheTankEngine · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:09

Because that's what they are. They were invented for marking trees which are to be cut down by loggers.

It was only discovered later that it's fun to shoot each other with them.

BDEE · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:11

Only issue I have with forums is that part of what I am selling is an air canister and it is not "in-test" and the ones I have found have a rule where it needs to be :/

Google fails me looking for them - Always end up with american ones and just loads of adverts and sites for paintball venues!

I found a classifieds site that has other markers on, so giving that a go first.

DB, they are not guns, they are markers

It is because they "mark" targets with paint.

Disco Boy · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:16

jimbob27 said:
Because that's what they are. They were invented for marking trees which are to be cut down by loggers.

It was only discovered later that it's fun to shoot each other with them.

Right, that makes sense.

BDEE said:
DB, they are not guns, they are markers
It is because they "mark" targets with paint.

They are guns, they fit the definition of a gun perfectly.

ThomasTheTankEngine · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:33

Disco Boy said:
Right, that makes sense.

They are guns, they fit the definition of a gun perfectly.

Well there isn't a legal definition of "gun". There's a legal defintion of "firearm" but to count under that they've got to fire a solid projectile, which paintball guns don't.

There's also the social aspect of it. Paintballers try and disassociate themelves from "gun culture", so always calling their guns markers is a part of this.

Devrij · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:37

Here you go mate.

http://p8ntballer-forums.com/vb/index.php

They do have some strict rules for classifieds so read through the rules sticky first. What marker is it out of curiosity?

Devrij · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:39

BDEE said:
Only issue I have with forums is that part of what I am selling is an air canister and it is not "in-test" and the ones I have found have a rule where it needs to be :/

Google fails me looking for them - Always end up with american ones and just loads of adverts and sites for paintball venues!

I found a classifieds site that has other markers on, so giving that a go first.

DB, they are not guns, they are markers
It is because they "mark" targets with paint.

Send your bottle off to HPAC and get it tested then? Only costs about £40, and if your bottle isn't worth more than that then why would anyone buy it from you knowing they'll have to get it tested. It'd be like me selling a chip on here that I'd just de-lidded, but hadn't checked to see if I had broken.

BDEE · 24 Oct 2012 at 11:45

Its a BT-4 Ironhorse. And all the rest of my gear.

Im selling it all as a "pack" so its pointless selling without the canister.

(It is pointless me paying to have it tested - For the price I am selling it all for by the time I have accounted for that it makes it less worthwhile for me. This is already reflected in my asking price).

ThomasTheTankEngine · 24 Oct 2012 at 12:27

I'm sure there are plenty of paintballers who don't care about when it was last tested.

Advertise it on a forum without mentioning the testing, and then tell any potential buyers the test is out of date via PM when they contact you. They will probably want it for cheaper, but I expect a lot of them won't care as long as it's working.

Devrij · 24 Oct 2012 at 12:37

BDEE said:
Its a BT-4 Ironhorse. And all the rest of my gear.

Im selling it all as a "pack" so its pointless selling without the canister.

(It is pointless me paying to have it tested - For the price I am selling it all for by the time I have accounted for that it makes it less worthwhile for me. This is already reflected in my asking price).

So just remove it from the sale if it's essentially a value-neutral item. Is it a steelie or CF? If it's a steelie you may as well just bin it for all it's worth. Or just sell the package without it and throw it in as a freebie post-sale to get around the forum rule?

BDEE · 24 Oct 2012 at 12:52

Steel. Its only 0.74L too.

Good idea - I shall do that!

Devrij · 24 Oct 2012 at 13:56

Ugh. TBH it'll cost you more in postage, just bin it.

opstrat · 24 Oct 2012 at 14:19

what is the psi of the bottle?

ballers will care for the test date as organisers and site onwers will check test dates to stop any "explosions" from happening.

P8ntballer is the best place to put it. baught and sold lots of guns and equipment from there.

rjk · 24 Oct 2012 at 14:20

p8ntballer forum.

sold all my stuff on there and its pretty busy.

not worth selling the tank if its not CF and in test tbh

i miss paintball

opstrat · 24 Oct 2012 at 14:27

have to disagree, if the bottle is a .8 ltr 3000psi then yeah its probibly not worth it,

it may be a 4500 in which case a lot of front players love the smaller tanks to get in tighter to the bunkers.