Sometimes the last thing you want to do is get a job, especially when there isn’t much to choose from. I know that’s the last thing I wanted to do, and small towns don’t exactly have the best jobs available (low pay, lousy conditions). So I went and found other ways, here is a list of some of the things I did to finance paintball, I hope you find them valuable.
4 ways to earn money through paintball for paintball …
1. The best place to start is to get an eBay account and sell all your junk. If paintball is more important than your xbox, then slap it … if you have a chest of baseball cards, toss it on eBay. Hell, I sold everything I could get … I sold video games that I no longer played, old toys, anything and everything.
2. Now after doing that, don’t just spend the money you still earned … invest it back in what you’re doing. How? I took the money I made and started buying deals on eBay, reposting them, and making good money. Make sure it’s something you can resell or know a lot about. In my case, I bought large paintball packages that were listed with a misspelling in the title or in the wrong category … you’d be surprised what you can find. To give you an example, I bought an old paintball marker that came with a couple of tanks, masks, and another gun. I was the only bidder and paid $ 200 for the entire package. I listed each item individually and made $ 200 just off the vintage paintball gun, so I did pretty well. Do this a few times and you will have more than enough to finance paintball.
3. If you are good at fixing paintball markers, buy broken guns for very little money, fix them and sell them on eBay. When BE stingrays were still on the market (yes, stingrays), I would buy a lot to modify and resell for $ 20 to $ 50 profit.
4. Creative? Innovative? Sell your own paintball mod, accessory, or service on eBay. If you did step 3, then you should have a lot of weapons to play with. An example would be the player selling their own version of the speedfeed for evolution hoppers, or the player selling ground body kits. Others apply a coat of powder paint to paintball guns with colors you can’t get them in (which is what I did).
If you are afraid to do this, or if this is too much for you, think again … I didn’t know what I was doing when I started (I was 14) and made a lot of mistakes along the way, but once I got used to it, I won enough to buy the equipment he wanted and play as long as he wanted. I also pissed off a lot of my friends because they thought my parents bought everything from me …
These are all ways to finance paintball through paintball, it’s a way to keep doing something you love to keep playing something you love, and nothing beats that.