It is interesting to see this:
http://www.impulse-owners.com/page/?id=17This was pointed out to me by a friend of mine. This information is incorrect. I never sold the company to anyone, not even myself. My wife has Cystic Fibrosis, and adults with this disease typically live to the age of 32 which she was quickly approaching. I was told by her doctors that I should spend as much time with her as possible. So, after 5 years of playing and putting up with the know-it-alls on the net, and the companies that make paintballs (who could give a crap if people got killed as long as they were selling paint at a record pace), I retired from the sport of paintball and decided to keep all of the assets of WAS. Fortunately, my wife is still alive and although there is no cure for her disease, there has been medical progress made to extend her life, which I am very grateful for.
I still have a slew of WAS products in my warehouse, but not EQ boards for the Impulse. I do have eye covers and some other parts, and maybe some raw (unstuffed) PCBs. I have several thousand ENFORCER units that are complete that were never released. I also have boxes of brand new paintball guns (Impulses, Intimidators, Quests, etc.) that have never been opened.
I look back at this industry and often wonder how some of these companies survived. Misinformation was a key part of it, for sure. It's unfortunate that the players are taking the hit for all of this. Paintball gun boards cost less than $10 to manufacturer in the quantities we were building, and that is U.S. based manufacturing costs, not out of China. You pay a lot more for the extra parts (like the expensive eye covers that really did take forever to get) and of course the R&D for testing these devices, than the cost of the actual board itself.
I miss playing. I miss the guys in Michigan. I miss the tournaments, Giovani, Bear, all of the pro players that I became friends with, Bob Long, Bud Orr, and a select few other manufacturers. Maybe someday I will re-open WAS.
