Are some knife Mfg. Using cult following to boost their profits.

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Quiet said:
I admit, ya got me. I am loving this EDC model you sold me, with the extra ballpeenness. It's my favorite. :D
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Shut 'er down. Quiet wins the thread.
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snapshot2017 said:
Could there be someone Trouling this thread?
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Well, your original post question

snapshot2017 said:
I find some knife Mfg.s have a cult following of their knives, for example Spyderco, have many of the same type knives that they change handle color and Material they change the blade Material, they make a "sprint Run" and the prices go from the $140 to $225 as an example.
And people are begging for new sprint runs of the same knives, it seems to be working well i feel are they using these sprint runs to just boost their profits?
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could have been answered definitively in two words: 'Uhhh, yeah.'

So there isn't much topic to go off of.
 
SpySmasher said:
This is one crazy thread. I can't understand the point of it.
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I was thinking along the same lines when I was responding last night. Is this Spydercos doing by creating a cult like following? Or is it the cult like following creating the overpriced sprints? Or a combo?

Shrug.
 
snapshot2017 said:
I don't think anyone would call a custom made knife, made by hand with blade forging and heat treating a sprint run.

Now i have seen with Randle where a vendor buys a full run of their best selling knives, get them before any single buyer could every get one like a wait of around five years.
Then the vendor shows up at a major firearm show with a bunch of Randle knives for sale at from 40 to 50% above their normal Randle prices.
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Randall (it's "Randall" btw) will gladly sell you a knife for their catalog price.

And I don't think vendors buy a full run of their knives. Vendors will order a SFO run of their knives.
 
Tommy-Chi said:
This is just my hypothesis. Spyderco in NO WAY produces a TON of knives in superior steels, but the 5 to 10 knives that they do produce in superior steels makes it look like their entire line-up is the penultimate resource for these steels. It is not, but it creates an image, a false valuation on their other knives in S30V and VG10. Heck when you consider the Byrd line, 8CrMo13 is probably Spyderco's #1 steel.

Few can get these knives. This is Spyderco's desired image >> Rare Materials For Blades. The 5 to 10 knives sell out, and they are officially on the books for these knives. It's not a lie, they did make 500 of them, and as I said, few can get them, and they are not satisfying the order requirements. My guess is that the super small segment of their fan base get the knives, do not use them because they are after all rare...but it does not broaden the uptake or use of the steels by other manufacturers. They are not creating competition, they are creating an image.

Spyderco does this over and over. They have this small batch process down to a science.

The retailers get their names exposed for FREE. They are looking for repeat customers and in some ways they probably get it. St Nicks, and Bento Box Shop are very popular on the Spyderco Forums. There are like, maybe 5 small retailers that have these sprint runs.
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Dude I see Cruwear and Maxamet Spydies selling nonstop on the used section of this forum. Bro, do you even knife exchange?
 
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