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Im still tryin to figure out what "Hero" they are talking about. On a side note but related, when you buy something (new, used, discount bin etc...) if there is no clear claim of warrenty then one should ask. I mean we all assume a car come with at least 3 years 60000km, butbif it doesnt say that in store, online, in tje contract etc... we would ask. Even if the gun was $200off it should have came with some sort of warrenty, if not then you had beter give it a good once over before you leave the store lol.
I mean the exact symptoms the OP described are quite normal symptoms for a stock gun running on a stock battery that was sitting in a box/on a shelf for a year or more without being discharged and recharged regularly. A huge chunk of us hage gone lipo just for this reason, oldschool rechargeable batteries suck in a high demand setup. (An airsoft gun or RC car for example) 1shot per mAh is considered standard in airsoft but getting a 1600mAh to charge to 1600 after it spent a year or more sitting on a shelf isnt gonna happen. I doubt they opened the gun to tell you it was the trigger contacts only to reassemble it without offering you the $5 doller part while they had it open. As for the sidearm guy. How do we even know its the sake shop? You didnt test it in the store after it was doa, the seccond time?
Not defending the retailer as I dont know what retailer it is. But if it is a respectable place then both the OP and sidearm guy seemed to have gotten shafted, (unless of course it was, hey this is 200off cause its the display model, no warrenty) kinda hard to tell without all the info and a my sisters boyfriends dog bought an airsoft gun and it was broken type of story. Who knows how many rounds the guy put through it. Who knows if he hooked it up to his car battery for shits n giggles. Who knows if air or gas was the wrong air or gas that split the nozzel, if its a glock whk knows if the selector was changed with the slide at battety....