Group Buy of Excel BBs from Fire-Support

thecivvie

I talked to Frank at Fire-Support and he said that he could send up to 15 bottles of bb's for postage of £15. Each bottle is £12. These are .20g bb's. See Excel .20g BB's.

Anyone here interested in a group buy

EyesOnly

So Its £13 a bottle (collected)? i could do with 2 bottles anyway.

liamo333

Will see what my money situation is but you could proably put me down for 2-3 bottles.

Spitfire666

how many are in a bottle? would that not mean its cheaper to buy from HRTA or BFSL in ireland?

thecivvie

6000 per bottle. Delivery in ireland will be problem but I will sort something so there is no extra cost, or only a small one

Spitfire666

thats a pointless purchase. if you buy from an irish seller your bound to get a much better deal. speak with Paul at HRTA or Derek at BFSL.

thecivvie

I have emailed Derek 2 or 3 times, never got a reply. As it stands if we could get enough people or say 10 lads who wanted 30+ bottles, I am sure that F-S would give a better price given a large enough order

ASI Casper

Guys, not to dis FireSupport as they're an excellent airsoft retailer and their customer service level is 2nd to none, but the cheapest Excel BBs in the UK ( and therefore, likely also the cheapest for the ROI even when postage is added ) is www.flecktarn.co.uk who sell bags of 3700 excel 0.2g for £5.49 a bag. You do the math! And Flecktarns customer service level is on par with that of FS.
Hope this helps.

liamo333

Casper is right we would be much better off getting the bb's off flecktarn.

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id go in for one bottle regardless

thecivvie

Maybe we need a price from Flecktarn as well and go with the best. My idea is simple, the more of us who can get together and buy as a group, we all save and that is a good idea. A few years ago, I was involved in a group buy scheme and it saved me a fair few pounds.

I will contact Frank at F-S now and see what price he can do bottles or bags in for a bulk buy

MaxForce

tcob1 wrote:

Maybe we need a price from Flecktarn as well and go with the best. My idea is simple, the more of us who can get together and buy as a group, we all save and that is a good idea. A few years ago, I was involved in a group buy scheme and it saved me a fair few pounds.

I will contact Frank at F-S now and see what price he can do bottles or bags in for a bulk buy

Hi tcob I am in.

N.O.I.P.

Hey guys I was bored (and I'm a miser ) so I thought I'd work out the math on the fire support offer

15 bottles of 6000 BBs at 12GBP + 15GBP shipping = 195GBP for 90,000 bbs thats about €286

Just having a look at BFSL's price list and they have 30Kg boxes of .20g Excels (thats 150,000 bbs) listed for about €345 which works out around €2.3 per 1000.
They also have 30Kg boxes of .23s, about 130,000 bbs (which I personally prefer) for €410 so thats about 3.14 per 1000. So if anybody is interested in splitting a case of .23s or .20s with me it might be worth giving BFSL another ring.

kdouglas

wouldnt mind splitting a box of .23s or even .20s myself, maybe get 3/4 people to split a box?

are those prices including shipping?

liamo333

Yeah id be interested.

N.O.I.P.

kdouglas wrote:

wouldnt mind splitting a box of .23s or even .20s myself, maybe get 3/4 people to split a box?

are those prices including shipping?

There shouldn't be any shipping since the retailer is in Ireland, but I'll give him a ring tomorrow to get a definite figure and see how long it would take to order etc

Its probably easiest to split the .20 box between 3 people as it divides nice and evenly 50,000 BBs a piece. Now where the hell am I going to keep 50,000 BBs

N.O.I.P.

liamo333 wrote:

Yeah id be interested.

Cool, if more people are interested we can obviously put in an order for more than one box so sound off if you want in and I'll try and have a final price tomorrow

kdouglas

N.O.I.P. wrote:

There shouldn't be any shipping since the retailer is in Ireland, but I'll give him a ring tomorrow to get a definite figure and see how long it would take to order etc

Its probably easiest to split the .20 box between 3 people as it divides nice and evenly 50,000 BBs a piece. Now where the hell am I going to keep 50,000 BBs

i meant if derek charged shipping that he pays, but it was a bit of a stupid question tbh...

i live about 5 mins drive (in heavy traffic) from ballymount, so ive no problem collecting them and bringing to hrta/wherever if we decide to go ahead and split a box

can just split the box based on the weight anyway, so 30kg/3 =10kg each or 30kg/4 = 7.5kg each etc...


need to find a place for storage myself too

copy and paste the list below and add your name to it if your interested:

N.O.I.P.
liamo333
kdouglas

(i only put in the names of those who said yes after boxes from bfsl were mentioned, since stuff from firesupport is per bottle)

N.O.I.P.

Truth be told I was just going to use a scales to divide it up myself. I was talking to hivemind about the order and he has recommended we start looking at miniguns or 60s at the very least

kdouglas

N.O.I.P. wrote:

Truth be told I was just going to use a scales to divide it up myself

dont know what's wrong with me today, keep stating the obvious..you were hardly going to count them out now were you!

liamo333

Why not? Can't take that long to count 300,000bb's.

liamo333

N.O.I.P. wrote:

Now where the hell am I going to keep 50,000 BBs

You can leave them in my house;)

thecivvie

N.O.I.P. wrote:

Hey guys I was bored (and I'm a miser ) so I thought I'd work out the math on the fire support offer

15 bottles of 6000 BBs at 12GBP + 15GBP shipping = 195GBP for 90,000 bbs thats about €286

Just having a look at BFSL's price list and they have 30Kg boxes of .20g Excels (thats 150,000 bbs) listed for about €345 which works out around €2.3 per 1000.
They also have 30Kg boxes of .23s, about 130,000 bbs (which I personally prefer) for €410 so thats about 3.14 per 1000. So if anybody is interested in splitting a case of .23s or .20s with me it might be worth giving BFSL another ring.

This is one method I hd not thought off. In fact I m glad you brought it up because if we could get enough people together then it would really make it worthwhile. My only problem would be that I cannot get HRTA as much as I would like :mad:

N.O.I.P.

tcob1 wrote:

This is one method I hd not thought off. In fact I m glad you brought it up because if we could get enough people together then it would really make it worthwhile. My only problem would be that I cannot get HRTA as much as I would like :mad:

Well getting to HRTA shouldnt matter I'm sure there is somebody who lives close enough to you to collect the BBs for you and if not we can bully somebody into going for a little drive

thecivvie

If you can bully them to drive to Galway, great. But yeah I think we would be able to find someone

kdouglas

scope lives down that direction doesnt he?
scope: fancy bringing a couple thousand bb's back on the bus?

N.O.I.P.

Right I spoke to Dereck and he is going to be putting in an Airsoft order next week so we have to give him a ring back on friday and let him know how many cases we are ordering, So who wants what?

thecivvie

N.O.I.P. wrote:

Right I spoke to Dereck and he is going to be putting in an Airsoft order next week so we have to give him a ring back on friday and let him know how many cases we are ordering, So who wants what?

I will take 10,000 of .20g , need to keep the chickens in feed

liamo333

What are you getting? I'm kinda broke at the moment (i just bought a g-spec and a scope and mount. But will take as many as I can mabey 10,000.

N.O.I.P.

A case of 150,000 .20 excels, I was going to take 50,000 so thats 70,000 gone anybody else interested?

kdouglas

ill take a good few .20g's myself, 10,000 at least, probably more, just have to see how fat (or light) my paycheck is this month

Irish Trinity

how much would it be for 10,00 i'm on a bit of a tight bugget with buying the new AEG

kdouglas

N.O.I.P wrote:

they have 30Kg boxes of .20g Excels (thats 150,000 bbs) listed for about €345 which works out around €2.3 per 1000

assuming those prices are correct €23 for 10,000

liamo333

Are you getting the .23s or the .20s?

N.O.I.P.

I assume we will go with the .20s since they are cheaper and there is more of them plus I am the only one who seems to have a preference for the .23s

EyesOnly

If he's placing the order on friday how long till he gets them in?
Im down to about 4k .23's and 1k .2's.
I'll take 10-15k if it aint gunna take long. was thinking of going to pred this weekend and getting some there.

N.O.I.P.

He reckons it will take 4-5 days once the order is placed

liamo333

Put me down for 30,000 .20s or 20,000 .23. I would prefer .23g ones btw.

kdouglas

was gonna suggest getting a box of .20s and another of .23s, but there's not enough people that want both and i reckon itll just cause complications, bfsl does have tubs of 5000 (i think) .23s, cant remember the price though

N.O.I.P.

Well we do have until friday so we may still get enough people to buy a box of each. Hopefully we will as I would much prefer to get the .23s but if the majority wants .20s then thats what we get. Aint democracy great

N.O.I.P.

Ok guys if we gets the .20s then
Tcob1 now wants 20,000
I'll be taking 50,000
and Liamo333 wants 30,000

So who wants what from the remaining 50,000

kdouglas

ill take 30,000

thecivvie

Spoke to MaxForce who will take 10k

N.O.I.P.

Ok so that leaves us with 10,000 first to reply gets them

CrazyRabbit

N.O.I.P. wrote:

Ok so that leaves us with 10,000 first to reply gets them

I'll take them. Should last me a few hours.

kdouglas

right, that's the lot then
N.O.I.P: you wanna ring derek and order them? if they're in by the end of next week I can collect and bring to hrta on sat 5th, ill also be at hrta this saturday if people want to give me the money for theirs

or if you want to go collect them, whichever, no idea where you live though, but im only down the road from ballymount

liamo333

do you accept paypal?

kdouglas

cash preferably, or bank transfer

CrazyRabbit

kdouglas wrote:

cash preferably, or bank transfer

What about payment in the form of M&M's? I have 40 packets of M&M's (don't ask).

kdouglas

peanut or chocolate?

(crispy arent worth mentioning)

CrazyRabbit

kdouglas wrote:

peanut or chocolate?

(crispy arent worth mentioning)

Peanut. And they are a bit bashed.