Basis for your Knife Purchases?

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What do most of you base your Knife Purchase decisions upon?

  • A) True Need (don't laugh)
  • B) Perceived Need (don't laugh)
  • C) Shopping/Handling at Knife/Gun Shows
  • D) Shopping/Handling at Knife/Gun Store
  • E) Magazine Article/Features
  • F) Advertisements
  • G) Internet Forum Discussions
  • H) Other (please list)
and by popular demand
  • I) Impulse (a.k.a. Inordinate Lust for More Stuff)

Unfortunately, for my wallet, I don't base my decisions upon "A"--and do base them on mostly based on "B" and "G".....Oh, and "I" too.

I'm curious what you other knife guys and gals base you buying decisions upon...
 
You did not include the one most prevelant on this forum:


"Inordinate LUST for MORE STUFF!!!!!!!!! " :p:):p:):p:):p
 
I would have to say

E) Magazine Article/Features
F) Advertisements
G) Internet Forum Discussions

and especially

H) Other (please list)

which is ... impulse!
 
I base my knife buying decisions on when I see a knife, just how much I want it. If I want it enough to spend the money on it, then I start to save up until I have enough money to order the knife. Needing has absolutely nothing to do with my knife buying decisions. Having to have is the only criteria I go by.
 
Whenever I have a little extra money. Sometimes I save up, other times I get an unexpected check. That's what it takes to send me across the river to my favorite knife dealer:D
 
If I have money, I spend it.

If I see a cool knife when I have money, I buy a cool knife.

If I don't see a cool knife, I spend it on something else.

Mike
 
In most cases, it's fit into my collection that matters. Maybe historic significance, maybe a special model, maybe an example of a model I don't already have, something like that.
 
Gollnick beat me too it.

Most of the time I'll buy a knife because it seems to fit the theme of whatever I am collecting.

n2s
 
Ok, I'll step up to the plate :) My order woud probably have to be:

G) Internet Forum Discussions
B) Perceived Need
I) Impulse (a.k.a. Inordinate Lust for More Stuff)
A) True Need

By the time I get done with G,B,& I who care about A :D
 
Gollnick wrote:
In most cases, it's fit into my collection that matters. Maybe historic significance, maybe a special model, maybe an example of a model I don't already have, something like that.
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not2sharp wrote:
Gollnick beat me too it.

Most of the time I'll buy a knife because it seems to fit the theme of whatever I am collecting.
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Wow, you guys are really cool (no sarcasm intended)--true collector types.

I hope one day to actually have a theme to collect around. Right now, I (like many of my Bladeforum brethren) have simply too many different types of knives which "speak to me".
 
guncollector,

You are collector; you just don't know it yet. :)

You usually find out over time. You may think you are buying the latest and trendiest stuff but one day you will pull out your collection and discover that you have actually been collecting on a theme all along. It's a little like chaos theory, up close there doesn't seem to be a pattern, then one day you will lay out your camp knives and discover that 85% of them are recurved, or that all your trendy folders just happen to have the same finish or share a lock design. The funny thing is that a collection can shift a little over time so you can end up shifting the empasis without being consciously aware of it. It is hard to say where you will end up, but the journey is alot of fun, and at some point you will be able to display what you have collected and pretend that you had known what you were collecting all along.

n2s
 
not2sharp is right that a theme isn't necessarily obvious. I like to collect knives that are different from what I've got. So the way a new knife fits into this kind of a collection ... is by not fitting.

For example, my large Sebenza is serrated, new style, old style clip. My small Sebenza is a Classic 2000, plain edge, new style clip. My Umfaan, of course, has no clip, and it has a graphic.

I have three neck knives: La Griffe hawksbill, Meerdink drop point, and Microtech recurve.

Unfortunately, this leaves me open to eventually filling in the spaces between them ... naaahh, there ain't that much money in the world! :D
 
I buy almost entirely on G.

You guys have cost me *so* much money.
Luckily, I've bought most from US or Europe... but I reckon that what I paid say $350 for would have cost me way over $1k here.

Usually, I buy for technology reasons - like the Spyderhole; I like the Axis Lock; I like Speed Safe; the Camillus EDC is way cool... and so on.[I also hang out way too much in Gadgets and Gear - my wife syas "and you need another Surefire light why?"];)
 
Almost entirely "G" for me also. If I rely on mag. articles and pictures I always end up disappointed when the knife arrives. There is a certain honesty to what is said here.
 
I used to delude myself with (B)perceived need, since (A)true need was satisfied long before I found this place. Now it's pretty much down to "because I want it and can afford to buy it."
 
Well, it all started with "A" and then I slipped to "B" after reading an "E" that mentioned a "G" and now I'm solidly in "I".

Bruce :rolleyes:
 
In this order: BCDAGI

I try to avoid "I" because it has bitten me in the arse a few times on other purchases.

Chris
 
Most of my purchases these days are of knives I want to add to my collection, a new model or an older one that is out of production and offered on the sale forum.
I do still impulse buy at times though! :rolleyes:
 
It is the search for the perfect knife. Not the perfect knife for any usage, but the perfect knive for a special need or situation. Unfortunately limited due my financial resources.
 
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