ED is announcing a price increase…..

Ed has spent lots of time on this forum answering questions. Oddly he has been absent since Machine Gun went mental on him. 😉 The one Cricket rep that was here used this as his own personal advertising space and never answered any questions. “Any” Cricket rep, you mean one of the two?

The Cricket I got from WWAG was “tuned and tested” by Peter (TGAG). Of course it was only tested to 30 yards, which is about as telling as testing someone’s spelling abilities by having them spell the word “and”.

I’ve had a bad experience with Peter/Boris (TGAG) and went through Steve only to not have to deal with AOA (and to avoid TGAG). I bought a high end FT competition pistol (from TGAG), was charged twice on my card and then run around the block trying to get a refund without having to have the bank do it. Eventually just had the bank do it since it was getting close to the deadline.

Pistol was supposed to be new (modified from a rifle), it had a screw that was stripped and jerry-rigged back in, the barrel was loose (along with a bunch of the breach screws) and it was shooting WAY over the power limit (12fpe), it had other signs that I was not the first owner. After about forty shots it lost air and would no longer hold a charge. I packaged it up (along with a custom stock I made) in a custom foam carrier that fit in a cardboard box. Talked to Peter, he said the valve kept blowing out the o-rings and he fixed it but it needed more testing. He tested it and it blew out the o-rings again, then he just stopped responding and a few weeks later I got a refund for the price of the pistol, my custom stock is ??, the box I made for it ??.

Fuck if I send my rifle into “that” situation… Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice… Yeah.

So really i’d rather deal with a rifle that shoots better right from the factory without having to go through all “that” again by sending it to Peter for work…

Say whatever you want about Ed, but don’t trick yourself into believing the alternative is any better.

I own four high end rifles and the Cricket costs the least and it shows. YMMV

Just for you I have dumbed the word down to “friend”… 😀 :butkick:
Cut and pasted right from wiki here is the meaning of the word in the way I used it and inteded it to be read..

“*Comrade*” means “friend”, “colleague”, or “ally”. The word comes from French “camarade”and this French word has it roots in the Spanish term “camarada”.
 The term is frequently used by left-wing organizations around the globe. “Comrade” has often become a stock phrase
 and form of address
. This word has its regional equivalents available in many languages.

Russian usage

The original (archaic) meaning of the Russian
version of this term (товарищ, “tovarishch”) from Old Turkic
 “tavar ishchi”, meant something like “business companion” or “travel (or other adventure) mate”, deriving from the noun товар (“tovar”, i.e., ‘merchandise’).

Shessshhh some people are so literal… 🙄

I dont like to speak for Ed but he is currently a very busy man.. some might say up to his eyeballs in work as he is in the middle of a very large number Matador build..
Has anyone stopped to think that maybe the message he wrote in Russian on his Russian forum for the Russian customers is simply that? For his Russian customers only?
Do you all know Ed has two factories? one in Russia for the Russian people (cant be exported) and one in Estonia for exportation to the rest of the world?
Ed is also in the middle of building his new house and has a wife and kids to share his valuable time with.. to be honest Im surprised he manages to spend the time on the forums at all especially with you ruthless lot tugging on his nuts at any given chance.. 😯 :suprisedn: go easy guys.. where’s the love gone? Ed is our friend!

Steve is the best Donny, I bought my Cricket from him and will continue to by from him no matter what I need for air gunning, you treat people right and do like he does with his customers you are going to win. It is obvious to me what Ed is in this for, just try and get one of his guns fixed by contacting him!

Syn whatever problem you might have with the cricket can probably be fixed by calling any cricket rep…it’s that simple…if it was the other way around and it was the edgun that had the problem…who would you contact…Ed himself being that people love the fact that you can talk directly to him?….

Ok let’s say he answers your email about a problem…what’s his normal response?.
“Give it time and let the gun break in”
Or
“Ill refund your money IF you didn’t drill into the stock or modify the gun in anyway”
Which then leaves you with no gun and back on a waiting list if you’d like another matador.

I’m just saying…… 😯

My Cricket was shipped shooting way too hot, EdGun too… :whistle:

For me the experience of owning an EdGun and Cricket has been almost exactly the same except the EdGun shoots better at 50 yards and the Cricket came with a bent trigger blade. 😐

Oh and the Cricket changes POI with each mag, so I had to make a single shot tray or chase a wandering POI.

So in my book the Cricket product needs improvement… :angrymob:

One thing is for sure, there is no real consistency in either product. :2cents:

Yup = Edgun needs a strong US distributor that demands the vendor toe the mark through a strong customer base. Tony seems like more of a friend who handles the shipments on the side. Give the US distributorship to WWAG. Ernest is Service and Parts for WWAG now.