Field caught bootlegging paint

[TF_Aloha]

This is just painfully dumb. I like seeing product releases leaked from Soup, but like others have said, this is Weekly World News "Batboy adopted by Bigfoot" levels of ridiculous.

LIke others have said, these machines are not cheap. I think that $1M is high for a single production line, but it's at least several hundred thousand to get the first ball. If a field is struggling, they're not going to have the money to do this.

And unless the quality is something like Blue Streak, no one in their right mind would ever hide this. Even if you only make mid-grade paint, putting it in a counterfeit box is just stupid. People who actually care about quality don't trust ANY existing brands right now.

"Locally-Made, Factory-Fresh Paint with NO MIDDLEMEN" sells itself. "Don't get that stale crap from a truck, shoot paint that was made 200' from the field."

This "bootleg paint" crap would be like a pizza parlor that makes it's pies from scratch trying trick people into thinking they were actually serving Totino's frozen pizza.

[Chappy]

Look I can handle a LOT, but I will not sit by and let you DISPARAGE BATBOY! He may be an abomination but he is a NATIONAL HERO WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY! T WWN wouldn’t lie….

[SignOfZeta]

This is just painfully dumb. I like seeing product releases leaked from Soup, but like others have said, this is Weekly World News "Batboy adopted by Bigfoot" levels of ridiculous.

LIke others have said, these machines are not cheap. I think that $1M is high for a single production line, but it's at least several hundred thousand to get the first ball. If a field is struggling, they're not going to have the money to do this.

And unless the quality is something like Blue Streak, no one in their right mind would ever hide this. Even if you only make mid-grade paint, putting it in a counterfeit box is just stupid. People who actually care about quality don't trust ANY existing brands right now.

"Locally-Made, Factory-Fresh Paint with NO MIDDLEMEN" sells itself. "Don't get that stale crap from a truck, shoot paint that was made 200' from the field."

This "bootleg paint" crap would be like a pizza parlor that makes its pies from scratch trying trick people into thinking they were actually serving Totino's frozen pizza.

Indeed. The idea that someone would make their own paint and HIDE it makes zero sense whatsoever. It implies that the rumor (what used to be called a “lie”) was created by someone who has a rather defective outlook.

[Chappy]

You can really tell what time of year it is by the shade of the posts on the threads.

[PBGunny]

I'm with Doc on this one. There more to making paintballs than just buying a machine and turning it on. Even if they did get one and figured out the process and the formulations, selling it for a better price than companies who are cranking out the volume would not be something a struggling business would do.
The field would be better off doing what most of the indoor places do which is collecting paint off the nets and reselling it.
What wouldn't surprise me is an encapsulating company who has some extra time on their machines and want to keep them up and running constantly partnered up with a local field.
That would make better sense than someone buying a setup from scratch.
Face it... Paintball industry is not that big.
As a matter of fact, it is a very small community when you really get into it.

[DocsMachine]

Face it... Paintball industry is not that big.
As a matter of fact, it is a very small community when you really get into it.

-This. I'd love to see some hard data on recent participant trends, but no matter what, this industry isn't anywhere near what it was in the early-to-mid 2000s. Places like Bob Long and WDP releasing a new variant basically every three months, quality paint made here in the US rather than in Korea or Russia, a heavy aftermarket...

Doc.

[JeeperCreeper]

I also dont think a field would go through the trouble of making their own paint. A more believable story would be they are putting no name paintballs in decent brand boxes and making more money. I think this one is just for the likes and not very factual, like most of social media these days.

[Chuck E Ducky]

The Sterling distribution center I use to buy really good paint through years ago. They would re box their low grade paint and sell it to big box stores like Walmart and Dicks back in the day.

This was back when paint was fazing out of the fish oil. I was getting the stuff for $22.50 a case. I would buy a Full skid at a time. It was shooting better than anything on the market at the time because they were all switching over to a lighter weight ball. We won a ton of BYOP Tournaments that year due to that paint. We started an LLC just to buy cheap paint in bulk. Laser strait and it broke Amazing!

Sterling Gauntlet it was called. Stunk up the indoor BYOP fields with it. We would drive down to some warehouse in PA pay cash and hand load a skid into my dad’s F150 and drive it back. Stored it in my parent’s basement. I would keep it rotated and bring enough for the team to practice/ events. I have a picture somewhere of it all stacked up along the wall.