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Improvements to Irish airsoft retail stores
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06-03-2008 2:13am#1In the same way a thread was started to seek new ideas for improvements to HRTA and other skirmish sites, this thread could be used to voice improvements and suggestions players may have for Irish airsoft retailer's sites.
This is not to point out flaws, more to point out what you would like to see from retailers in the future and what improvements could be made.
This would go for the likes of site layout and design, shipping options, stock ranges you would like to see, upgrade services etc etc.
Also any suggestions you may have in regards new ideas, like first time starter packages for example.
I guess comments should be made as a whole, that is, not to be making comments like "well www.abcdefg.com should stop doing this and start doing this", try and make your suggestion applicable to all Irish retailers. We're all on here, so we can all read what you think.
All suggestions are welcome.
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god idea for a thread., dont want you to take this the wrong way but i hate looking for stuff on your site.,lol,
if it was set out in better catagories then it would be a lot more user friendly, for instance the way there sub catagorys for pistols then revolvers. i think it would be better if they were all in the one to make browsing easier and sub machine guns have its own catagory.,
maybe change "auto electric guns" to AEGs or rifles/assault rifles etc, and on the front page have more featured items and less writing., 0 -
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The one thing that bugs me about the sites is the images, sometimes you click on an image of an airsoft gun, you know, to get a good close look at it and its just a tiny thumbnail image, no bigger when you click it, and a lot of the pictures are like that, tiny stock images.
I'd love to see a range of photos for each product with close up shots etc..........it'd convince me to spend my money quicker
P.S. What about software that lets you zoom in and out on an image and rotate the gun to have a 360 view
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I agree about the images, but it does take a lot of time to do all that, i'm sure we'd all love to see 360 images that we can rotate and videos of the stuff in action, but if the retailers did that, there'd be no time for actually sending out orders 0
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CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »The one thing that bugs me about the sites is the images, sometimes you click on an image of an airsoft gun, you know, to get a good close look at it and its just a tiny thumbnail image, no bigger when you click it, and a lot of the pictures are like that, tiny stock images.
I'd love to see a range of photos for each product with close up shots etc..........it'd convince me to spend my money quicker
P.S. What about software that lets you zoom in and out on an image and rotate the gun to have a 360 view
+1
Even if they were just higher quality/bigger images it would be enough I think though some alternate views would be nice too
On the whole though I think the Irish sites are well orgainsed compared to some of the chineses sites for example where there is no orgainisation and no information.0 -
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I wouldn't mind if all the sites had better display of stock levels at the listings level, so that I wouldn't have to actually go into individual products to see if any were available - most Irish retailers have many more products lists than available.
I agree with CroppyBoy1798 - some of the images sometimes actually seem smaller when you click for zooming
I like the related/recommended products list idea too. When I first started buying, it was a bit intimidating, figuring out which extra parts I'd need. I know there's an argument about too much hand-holding, but from a retailer's perspective, you sell more when you give more information, more consistently. Fear keeps my wallet closed, and I believe that's true across the board.
Lastly, I wouldn't mind if the retailers were consistent about AEG/GBB stats - if every piece of projectile equipment had construction material, weight in kg and projectile force in J and m/s.
I guess a lot of this is down to individual retailer choice. I'm a web developer by trade, so I know what it's like. Steve may feel info x is a good selling point of his site, where as Tony may feel it confuses the issue, and Derek might say 'come in and hold the kit in my store'. If you all had the amazon.com clone sites and drove the same car, it wouldn't make for an interesting marketplace...
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I'd be more than happy to give this a go, I'll get me hands on a cammera and do some photoshopping tonight.Perhaps the customers with photography experience could take a set of quality photos, and e-mail them on to the retailers, who could update their listings with them, even providing a photobucket url, and expressed permission of use.
I have the mac11a1 ggb and the cyma/acm Thompson m1a1 which I believe are both sold by Irish suppilers.0 -
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TheFlatulator wrote: »my 2 cents... Why not link off to some youtube vids for examples of the brand in question, i think all of here will give the video quaility the benifit of the doubt. But that way people can see the thing in action.
As for discounts, i know you are there to make make money so cutting the price might not be viable but what about maybe once a quarter off 2 or 3 cost price (or cost +10%) + P&P to ppl on the airsoft forum here. That way you drum up trade and don't make a loss and get some business in as well. So for example lets say a TM SIG 552 was €150 cost price to you and you add 10% (€15) you then sell it for €165 + P&P.
Just a few idea's
Interesting, but highly unfeasible. I challenge you to find any retailer anywhere that will go to the effort of importing an aeg, stocking it, accepting an order and posting it out for €15.
It may be "business", but its "putting you out of business" business. And seeing as a large proportion of customers are members of the IAA, you'd be selling thousands of euro of gear and making pence in return. I think a discount with packages would be a better idea, which we currently do to an extent. Always worth an ask.
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AirsoftEire.com wrote: »Interesting, but highly unfeasible. I challenge you to find any retailer anywhere that will go to the effort of importing an aeg, stocking it, accepting an order and posting it out for €15.
It may be "business", but its "putting you out of business" business. And seeing as a large proportion of customers are members of the IAA, you'd be selling thousands of euro of gear and making pence in return. I think a discount with packages would be a better idea, which we currently do to an extent. Always worth an ask.
Steve
Well just an idea but if you were to change around the figures so that you get the idea, but limit the number of things to only 3 of these type of sales per every 3 months or so. Just so that you show thanks for ppl here buying...
But if you did a package with a discount that would be good as well...0 -
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Well now, I didn't know that. Looking at that revolver too.
Need to replace my bell m9, the mags just piss gas all over the place. Tempted to get a glock, I never liked the look of them in pictures but I shot one in G-tac that was very nice. Not what I was expecting at all.0 -
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