Hopefully it is mostly the plastic clamshell packaged BE and VL branded junk that once adorned Walmart shelves.
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I'm very much a packrat, and hate to throw away anything good. I have paintball gear I've had for 25 years, and will probably never use- but I'm not gonna toss it.
BUT... I know a lot of players who have thrown out parts or whole markers they decided they don't need anymore. Loaders, old tanks, barrels, bolts... There's 20 million Sledgehammer regulators out there- Bacchi has boxfuls. I hate to see those get junked, but really, no one's going to use them, no one's going to need one to "restore" an original '98 'Cocker, etc. Those and stock barrels... Heck, I have probably 200 barrels I could scrap, chuck or give away (if anyone would take them.)
Yeah, I hate to see it happen, and I'd rather see somebody like Bacchi take them than toss them, but even he can't store a warehouseful of expired tanks, unwanted barrels and unneeded regs.
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I’m fascinated by what ends up on goodwills auction site. I’ve seen some cool guns pass through. I wonder if goodwill employees realize when something is more then just an old Walmart special.Comment
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I'm a pack rat. Whatever I can't sell, I stow away in boxes until years go by, then I try again to sell (or give) them away. I've had decent success. Paintball nostalgia runs in phases. In the early 2000s, you COULDN'T GIVE AWAY ANYTHING pump. But by 2007, they were having a mild renaissance, and finally you could sell a Trracer again. I bought my Kingman Hammer A for like $45 in 2004ish. Now it's worth double that, if not more.
The only gun I've ever actually discarded was a Brass Eagle Blade. It was the original blue model that could be purchased at any Walmart. The shell eventually cracked, and I offered up the internals, but nobody wanted them. So 13 year old me tossed them away and pinched my pennies for a Spyder.
Otherwise, I've tossed bad boards and things like that. But even now, I have a collection of stupid crap nobody will ever want, but I hope to eventually get rid of. Paintball is my sport. Some people like football, or baseball; but I like paintball. It's too meaningful to me to just throw gear away.
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The only marker i can remember throwing away was a Scorpion blowback. It leaked constantly from the VA & i couldn’t for the life of me make it stop. One day after fooling with it for the umpteenth time i got so frustrated that i chunked it in the garbage can at the road. The garbage was picked up shortly after that & when i calmed down i really regretted it.Comment
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New thread: What did you throw in the trash today?Originally posted by Terry A. DavisComment
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I would be shocked if 90% of the 4 billion brass eagle talons produced aren't currently sitting in a landfill.Comment
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I work in the metal recycling industry amongst others. Right now, companies are mining old metal recycling landfills because the new technology is so much better at recovering valuable metals. There are already talks about opening old MSW landfills to do the same. Obviously, the return will be much less but it’s worth it enough to have these talks.Comment
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Of course a decent percentage of klunky blowbacks got pitched, I'm sure MOST of the translucent plastic Brass Eagle pump abominations are in the landfill. I'm most curious which high-end guns got trashed the most. Of course the older guns with poor parts availability will be a strong percentage; but among the really popular superguns, what gets tossed? I want to guess Luxes, since they were a common status symbol gun for teenagers with rich parents in my area, although several local players claim to have demolished PE guns that ended up trash.Comment
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If you're gonna throw it away,send it to me... I like to tinkerComment
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You don't have to worry about too many here throwing away parts... 'cept maybe Ecap.
It's the thousands of kids that bought something cheap from Wal-Mart, played for one weekend, and then threw it away years later.
And considering the absolutely beat-to-s**t condition I've seen markers sometimes, and the fact I've found good markers in unlikely locations (secondhand stores, pawn shops) I have no doubt whatsoever that more than a few really nice markers have been trashed.
Not everyone reveres them as we do.
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If it ain't selling and it's taking up space and isn't useful to me.... It's worth scrap value only. I hate clutter that is just only that.
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