Whole Sell help

Sticky Qs · 02-18-2006, 10:40 PM

OK, i just got into selling paintball equipment and my wholesellers are National Paintball, Trinity, and soon madevs but they are still exspensive like i sold a spyder imagine and only made 18 dollar proffit. Soon i will be hosting a site but still thats like pennies.

If any of yall know off a good wholeseller that doesnt over price please inform me

can u help me find some good wholesellers

I have a business name authorization and every thing but do yall guys end up making only like 20 an 30 for a gun

**TargetIndy** · 02-18-2006, 10:51 PM

$20-30 isn't unusual for entry-level markers. Ask any brick-and-mortar store and they'll tell you that gun sales don't make you rich. There are better profit margins in accessories, paint and air sales, and service.

paintball8869 · 02-18-2006, 11:16 PM

i was disappointed too when I sold my first spyder and made about $20. I had hoped to sell it for twice the amount I bought it for, but this isnt the real world. 50% of the paintball industry knows wholesale prices. That's what's causing these things to cost stores/fields so much and the retail to be so low.

redlineoryourmine · 02-18-2006, 11:29 PM

which is also what is holding the sport back and keeping us store owners barley making it. espically when you get a few guns in inventory a couple of tanks and some du-dads. you cant make much off them because they cost too much to begin with not saying i could make them any cheaper but darn its hard to make it. good luck and wait till you go buy a hpa air compressor, take the vasoline.

HaterPB · 02-21-2006, 09:37 PM

Air and paint. Air and paint.

pball06 · 02-22-2006, 03:12 AM

you should call up evan at moneypaintball

GunzNshizzle · 02-22-2006, 07:06 AM

LOL...

Welcome to Retail Paintball sales...

wait till all the little kiddies start hammering you for discounts...

enjoy.

Shizz.

midstatepaintball · 02-22-2006, 08:07 AM

Later this year you will be wishing you made $18.00 on a marker with the way the industry is heading.

NO.SPD.LIMIT · 02-25-2006, 09:58 AM

Oh no! Paintball seemed like a good idea but now some is discovering there is no money in paintball. Welcome to paintball

Wholesalers? Better prices? LOL

agentblake · 03-08-2006, 09:14 PM

...yea but on high end guns, i bet profits huge. matrix 05 for 650 online... i noe ppl who got them for 500...and i bet the person who sold it to them got it for like 300 or less.

lopez17 · 03-09-2006, 07:45 AM

But you'll sell 5 to 10 low end Tippmans for every 05 Matrix you sell. The $20 profit per tippman (times 5 of them) will be nearly equivalent to the profit of that matrix.

Fiszaj · 03-09-2006, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by agentblake

...yea but on high end guns, i bet profits huge. matrix 05 for 650 online... i noe ppl who got them for 500...and i bet the person who sold it to them got it for like 300 or less.

A word of advice - don't do gambling - You'll end up very poor.

Some of the ppl think the margins in Pb are very high. You're wrong, more than you think. The last time I looked at my wholesale price list the prices were nowhere near what the kids on PBN imagine they are.

dyegear4life06 · 03-09-2006, 09:35 AM

People like sticky is why margnis suck.

agentblake · 03-09-2006, 09:47 PM

ummm. ok. lets do some elementary math...

matrix 05... sale online for 650 ish....
now someone tell me the wholesale cost of this gun....
ill take a guess.... 300?? thats a big cut if u ask me.

paintball8869 · 03-09-2006, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agentblake

ummm. ok. lets do some elementary math...

matrix 05... sale online for 650 ish....
now someone tell me the wholesale cost of this gun....
ill take a guess.... 300?? thats a big cut if u ask me.

I wish it was like that. Try making less than $100 on most high end guns. That doesnt leave a lot of profit after you pay expenses of the store/field and then offer a lifetime warranty on labor like most shops do.

OTP2 · 03-10-2006, 07:01 AM

You will be lucky if you make $45-85 on a high end marker. As far as that $18.00 profit you will not see much more then that my friend maybe $25.00 on a good day.

dyegear4life06 · 03-10-2006, 07:21 AM

Agent blake you have no idea what you are talking about...just leave.

Ignorance has no place here...

**TargetIndy** · 03-10-2006, 08:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by agentblake

ummm. ok. lets do some elementary math...

matrix 05... sale online for 650 ish....
now someone tell me the wholesale cost of this gun....
ill take a guess.... 300?? thats a big cut if u ask me.

Try more like a 10-20% mark-up. Figure in the shipping and that cuts into the margin.

Sean@smartpartswest · 03-10-2006, 09:47 AM

$300 on a matrix? No way! You are taking guesses. There is not a whole lot of money to be made in paintball. Especially on guns. More margin available on most of accessories and so forth. Is someone sells a matrix 05 for $650, it probably costs $600. Or even the dealers bought them at full wholesale before the price drop and loosing money on it.

Minnesota111 · 03-10-2006, 10:09 AM

Yeah, wholesale price drops are KILLERS. I had over $1000 worth of SP barrels last spring(when prices went down 20%). Almost all of it went for cost, and I still have a few of those items left. DYE does this annually with their apparel. Anyone with 98's is about to get hit twice. This aspect of what it "costs" to run a shop is very real.

SlartyBartFast · 03-10-2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Minnesota111

Yeah, wholesale price drops are KILLERS. I had over $1000 worth of SP barrels last spring(when prices went down 20%). Almost all of it went for cost, and I still have a few of those items left. DYE does this annually with their apparel. Anyone with 98's is about to get hit twice. This aspect of what it "costs" to run a shop is very real.

And THAT's the problem with paintball as a business. None of the manufacturers or big distributers seem to have any interest in growing the sport or supporting a healthy retail market.

They want the whole pie to themselves.