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1- Patience is your friend. If you have your eye out for a specific knife on the exchange, wait. First one I wanted was a small Insingo. I lurked and lurked on the exchange for about 2 weeks, and nary an Insingo appeared. So I broke down and bought a small plain 21 from an online dealer (no Insingos anywhere online at the time) and within two days a used small Insingo popped up on the exchange. That's happened to me once or twice since then, too.
2- Start slow. Once you cross that $300 line the first time, it's really easy to lose control. I bought around seven or eight different CRKs my first month.
3- If you're looking for advice on your first one, and somebody tells you, "Don't worry, if you don't like such and such CRK you can always sell it back on the exchange and make most of your money back" DON'T BELIEVE THEM. I've taken a loss on almost every CRK I've bought and sold on the exchange. 9 out of 10 times.
4- If you get one that you really like, DON'T TRADE IT AWAY! You'll just wind up buying another of the same in a couple months.
5- All you really need is a small scotchbrited Insingo (EDIT: You only NEED one CRK. Trouble is, finding "the one" can be a very, very expensive process.)
2- Start slow. Once you cross that $300 line the first time, it's really easy to lose control. I bought around seven or eight different CRKs my first month.
3- If you're looking for advice on your first one, and somebody tells you, "Don't worry, if you don't like such and such CRK you can always sell it back on the exchange and make most of your money back" DON'T BELIEVE THEM. I've taken a loss on almost every CRK I've bought and sold on the exchange. 9 out of 10 times.
4- If you get one that you really like, DON'T TRADE IT AWAY! You'll just wind up buying another of the same in a couple months.
5- All you really need is a small scotchbrited Insingo (EDIT: You only NEED one CRK. Trouble is, finding "the one" can be a very, very expensive process.)
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) Yes, I remember thinking precisely that same thing as well. Perhaps this will help -- the raw material cost of a high precision, part automated / part handcrafted product like the Sebenza is on the order of 10%-15% of overall product cost. The rest is labor, operating expenses, etc. The only costs that scale with physical size between the lg and sm Sebenza is the raw material cost -- the lion's share of product cost is size independent. With the lg weighing in at about 50% again as much as a sm, the sm costs 5%-7% less to produce than a lg; however, the sm costs 15% less than the lg. From that aspect, compared to the lg, the sm is a bargain! 
