A cost of a Jing Gong gun has gone down by like 60%?!?!?!
 

Hey, its the underager again. I am just wondering, why has the price of a Jing Gong airsoft gun gone WAAAAAYYYYYYY down? Is this recent or has it been this way for a while?

I say this because only last year, I saw a Jing Gong G36C for about $250 or so at a non-canadian site and now it is only $99 on ehobbyasia! Can someone let me know why and when this happened?

I recently purchased an upgraded JG G36C.......(spring + motor + battery) for about $350..did I get ripped off? (it was not used, it was new..)

$350 sounds about right.

You can't compare foreign prices to Canadian ones.

They're shitty guns?

Well, they work and i know that a lot of people use them, but clones are clones and I suppose people are finally taking the step to buying quality again.

Making them cheap make them more appealing to the 14 year olds that like 'OMG400FPS full metal!11' cheap guns.

Just because it's available in Asia doesn't mean it's available in Canada. It might not be Canadian legal and therefore, for that price, cannot be imported here (thus the higher price).

Canadian prices will be 1.5-2.5 times more than outside of our boarders. If a website's prices are dropping for a gun, it could be due to many factors. POS and they're trying to get rid of them. Could be a sale or a refurbished gun that was once malfunctioning. Don't compare our Canadian prices to overseas as for sure, ours will be much more expensive. $350 for your gun sounds about right.

ah I see. Thnx for all the input :D

I'm just glad that I didn't get ripped off *phew*

also, @ strelok.....the JG G36s aren't even full metal :D

Just like the real ones.

haha :D

lol you mean i can't get a metal kit for it? just like i can't get a metal body for the ump?

I was just voicing it as an example, not in reference of the gun itself :p. I'm not that stupid.

It's true though. Its what the kids drool over.

If you want a good estimate of airsoft gun prices look at UK airsoft gun prices convert pounds to Canadians and that should be roughly there. UK airsoft retailer are known for simply converting $ sign to £

I knew that :D *whistles*
at least I did when I bought it, but not before :P


I also don't really get what the hype is over full metal....I just like it to be realistic. I bet people would want full metal kits for G36s and UMPs, but a full metal kit on a gun that's not metal IRL? I mean, if the gun IRL is full metal, then I would want a full metal kit, but if its not, then I'll pass.

full metal = more so realistic in most cases (aside from what you pointed out with real versions having polymer parts)

the added weight and the sound of slapping a metal mag in the metal mag well makes things more realistic. but then for even more realism, you'd get a full metal GBBR. :P

JG G36c have always been cheap, ill let you in on a little secret, majority of the airsoft sites in hong kong use the JG g36c as a rental platform for newbies and such, they buy them wholesale in bulks of 100- 200 rifles, each one costs about 30 canadian each :)

the price ranges from about 70 - 100 dollars over here in Hong Kong

@ phloudernow

I was in Hong Kong last summer and I found the hobby shop street over there...and I looked at the airsoft guns there, ultra cheap, but can't be imported back to Canada....so I went and bought a Tamiya R/C instead :D

I was pretty shocked however, that there could be THAT much of a difference between prices between almost everything.....

*Finds a TM M16 for about $300 and goes OMGWTFBBQ*
*Finds a Tamiya R/C for about $180 and buys it (because its like $300 over here....)*

Same as anything. I buy LiPos from HK for $12.99 that cost me about $50/ea in Canada.

This is no news to those of us who have.. you know... read the FAQs. Or understand economics and Canada's import laws.

Hey hey, I know the economics and Canada's import laws....I am just kinda shocked at how prices can have THAT much of a difference...I mean, I was expecting maybe a difference of about 2 times (as in Canadian prices being twice as much) but it was more like 3 times more.....

Although..it is true that you just can't compare Hong Kong's and Canada's prices since there so much of a difference...and this goes for everything, not just airsoft guns.