Originally posted by Greg
mugged 44 heres a wild idea pick up some sponsership.
weather it be from your local site to dye and draxxus sponsership.
kyle
Actually that's a step in the opposite direction. Imposing costs on paint and gear companies is what drives up the price of playing for everyone, not down, because they have to make up the money they're shelling out by upping the everyday persons' price. The less money they fork out on stuff like that and instead rebate the consumer by lowering the prices they have to charge to make a profit, the cheaper the sport as a whole gets. Instead try shifting the advertising base to non-paintballing companies who compete constantly for share of advertising space. In short, make yourself a billboard. If you have to mill a Visa logo into your gun (not a bad idea actually) or tattoo Amsouth Bank on your butt, do it.
Other ways to cheapen the sport:
1. Drink less before events so you have more money to spend, stupid.
2. Carpool to and from fields.
3. Have someone around who knows how to cook to save money on restaurants. I am for hire, for example, for a price of course.
4. Use rechargeable batteries. Plenty of people run down 9v's just clicking them 20,000 times in the staging area before each day. This stacks up!
5. Restrain yourself from tweaking with your gun to the point of messing it up and having to send it to the shop to get it reset, for a fee of course every time. YOU ARE NOT A TECH GOD. LOOK AND THE MIRROR AND POINT "I AM NOT A TECH GOD. IN FACT, WHEN IT COMES TO MECHANICS I AM A DAMNED IMBECILE, INCABLE OF DETERMINING A VALVE SPRING FROM A SNAP RING. I WILL LEAVE EVERY INCH OF MY EQUIPMENT EXCEPT THE TRIGGER AND THE ON/OFF SWITCH THE F$%K ALONE UNLESS IT IS TOTALLY INCAPABLE OF PUTTING A BALL OUT THE END OF A BARREL."
6. Cut the chrome and matching this and that bit. Nobody gives a rat's rear end what you look like on the field for 30 seconds then in the dead box for 9 1/2 minutes. If you were a fashion model, we'd be yelling at someone else for gooing up the pages of Victoria's Secret catalogue instead of you on account of them.
Buying everything fresh 2k3 the day it comes out only makes you indistinguishable from the other ten million wannabe morons out there who ogle at pics of the big guys who could give two sh|+s what they're wearing so long as they get their picture taken while giving a mugging instead of taking one or at least having a good hair day. Last year's jersey isn't so bad guys and girls. It by now smells like you as an individual so you can recognize it with the hotel room lights still out at 4:40 am while your other senses are still blurred by the Jager and Rumple Mintz shots those cute blonde twins at the bar dared you to keep taking with them. You don't have to go through the process again of sending it back to the shop four times to be reprinted because they couldn't spell your last name and/or team name right. And unless the twins ended up in bed with you and were animalistically insane, it likely isn't torn to shreds like that 2mm hole is making you think it needs to be replaced for being worn out.
