May 13 2007
Do You Enjoy Paintball?
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Paintball enthusiasts looking for an online source to purchase their gear might want to consider heading on over to Ultimate Paintball, an online paintball supply store that boasts a large selection and free shipping and handling. You can find everything from paintball guns, paintball packages, tippman upgrades, cleaners, you name it they got it. Just about everything you would need to improve your game and keep your gear in tip top shape is available.
Although Ultimate Paintball boasts free shipping it has quite a few strings attached to it. All in all, even if you qualify for the free shipping you still might feel a bit slighted by it. While advertising free shipping and handling is great, and there is free shipping available, the manner in which it is being advertised is very misleading and may cause potential buyers to turn away. I believe the store would do better with a slightly more honest mode of advertising. Something like “Qualifying purchases receive free shipping. Click for details”. As it stands shipping is only free to purchases of more than $200 in the continental United States, the 48 states only (sorry Alaska and Hawaii!). Free shipping is not available to AFO, FPO, and P.O. Boxes. Well that leaves me out!
Instead of the slow economy shipping method usually utilized for free shipping offers Unlimited Paintball offers UPS, which explains some of the selectiveness of the offer. Still though, with so many places refusing to ship to P.O. Boxes for special orders and deals it’s disheartening to see yet another store on that list. But if you checkout via their GoogleCheckout option you will get $10 off your purchase 
Now while I agree that the prices are pretty low and reasonable on this site there are a few other sites that can boast similar prices. If one was planning on making a large online purchase and was interested in saving money on shipping and handling I did find some places where you could get it delivered (in the site’s country) for free and one that would ship anywhere for free. That said, I think Ultimate Paintball would do well to look at their shipping policy a bit more. While they are leading in cheap and affordable prices the competition isn’t too far behind.
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I actually am not a big fan of paintball. It is probably about the many times I have been walloped by people playing paintball and I am not a big fan of pain.
thats random about this paintball artical because I have been looking to get into the sport after watching a movie where they went to a paintball course and it looked like something I would really enjoy. I think to start out I should buy one of those packages that have everything in it I would need. Do you have any recommendations on which one to get because they range from $100 to $600 and I don’t know brands or what I really need. A reply or new post about brands would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
wow thanks for this i love paintball!
keep it up, will be in tuned! it’s kinda pricey though and too bad it’s only in the US, i’ll be looking for alternatives but thanks for the info.
-rob