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, poor 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 trunk of baseball cards, throw it on eBay. Heck, I sold everything I could get my hands on… I sold video games I didn’t play anymore, old toys, anything and everything.
2. Now, after you’ve done that, don’t just spend the money you’ve still earned…invest it back in what you’re doing. How? I took the money I made and started buying deals on eBay, put them back up and made good money. Make sure it’s something you can resell, or know a lot about. In my case, I purchased large paintball packs that were listed with a misspelling in the title or listed 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, goggles, and another gun. I was the only bidder and paid $200 for the entire package. I listed each item individually and made $200 on the old paintball gun alone, so I did pretty well. Do this a couple of times and you’ll have more than enough to fund your paintball.
3. If you’re good at repairing paintball markers, buy broken guns cheaply, fix them up, and sell them on eBay. Back when BE stripes were still on the market (yes, stripes), I would buy a lot to modify and resell at a $20-$50 profit.
4. Creative? Innovative? Sell your own paintball mod, accessory or service on eBay. If you did step 3 then you should have plenty of weapons to play with. An example would be the player selling their own version of speedfeed to evolution hoppers, or the player selling milled body kits. Other powder paint guns with colors you can’t get them in (which is what I did).
If you’re scared 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 the hang of it Don’t worry, I made enough to buy the team I wanted and play as long as I wanted. I also pissed off a lot of my friends because they thought my parents bought me everything…
These are all ways to finance paintball through paintball, it’s a way to keep doing something you love to keep playing what you love, and nothing is better than that.