Benchmade Has Been Listening

madfordiving said:
Benchmade sprint runs are higher priced than if the same knife be regular run so for the 710 I payed around 180
and now it worth 140. This is "fraud" in my book but honestly because I'm not the a.hole that will buy the Benchmade or
Spyderco sprint run just because I can make some money later on. The people that do that are not knife people they
are cheap moth....ers and charge markup price that make me mad just reading it, and there goes the blade addict and
pays that price just to get his dose.
Goin back to the fraud thing what I mean is that it is a litle bit irritating and not honest from Benchmade to charge the
sprint run markup and the sale the same knife at a lower price. I believe that most of the people that bought the 710
sprint run will tell the same. Then again I'm happy that the moth....ers won't have the chance to do that on this one
All in all I love knives and the 710 is one of my favourites and one of the best folders around if not the best in it's class
and that is why I have 7 in diferent steel flavours.
Now that I've read the improvements I'm again siting on hot coal and contemplating no 8. The f....ing addiction you know

MFD
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Whot?
It started as a LE, the demand was higher than expected. Should the store that comissioned the original run be rebelious and turn down money from customers? In this economy no less? Not so much fraud, just some basic economics. If you produce a product in a very limited quantity, that is inherently more expensive. In this case the cost of acquiring, machining, and heat treating M390 might have been more than standard D2 A specific profit magin has to be established, you want to at least break even. When that item stops being LE and beomes "exclusive" there is more room to play with the profit margin and make it available to the base that initially requested it. Still not seeing fraud. I purchased the knife when it was $180, thems the rubs.

When someone has an item that was exclusive to begin with and that item is long gone and out of production expecting that item to be priced as it was initially is simply irrational. Sure, it's nice when it happens but unrealistic. The rarer a collectible item gets the more expensive it beomes. In my experience the best way to avoid "scalpers" is to stay on the ball and preorder from your store of choice. It's worked for me.

Honey Badger
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It's great that a bunch of others will get to own this great knife. No doubt. But a LE is just that Limited. It's terrible that guys like me had to pay a premium for a knife they were just gonna reproduce a year later only without the writing on the blade. Guys like me should get a discount on the new ones.
 
RevDevil said:
Whot?
It started as a LE, the demand was higher than expected. Should the store that comissioned the original run be rebelious and turn down money from customers? In this economy no less? Not so much fraud, just some basic economics. If you produce a product in a very limited quantity, that is inherently more expensive. In this case the cost of acquiring, machining, and heat treating M390 might have been more than standard D2 A specific profit magin has to be established, you want to at least break even. When that item stops being LE and beomes "exclusive" there is more room to play with the profit margin and make it available to the base that initially requested it. Still not seeing fraud. I purchased the knife when it was $180, thems the rubs.

When someone has an item that was exclusive to begin with and that item is long gone and out of production expecting that item to be priced as it was initially is simply irrational. Sure, it's nice when it happens but unrealistic. The rarer a collectible item gets the more expensive it beomes. In my experience the best way to avoid "scalpers" is to stay on the ball and preorder from your store of choice. It's worked for me.

Honey Badger
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No need to get a hard on Honey plus I have a degree BEcon Economics so you lecturing me a that basic economics stuff
is like the old proverb "come grandad I'll show you your vineyard. I don't think you saw the " " I included the word
fraud but if you did then from the answer I jugde that you don't understand the meaning and this is a knife forum
not an Eglish Gramar one other wise I would explain it to you

MFD
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Never mind, deleted.

madfordiving said:
No need to get a hard on Honey plus I have a degree BEcon Economics so you lecturing me a that basic economics stuff
is like the old proverb "come grandad I'll show you your vineyard. I don't think you saw the " " I included the word
fraud but if you did then from the answer I jugde that you don't understand the meaning and this is a knife forum
not an Eglish Gramar one other wise I would explain it to you

MFD
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KnifeEnthusiast said:
It's great that a bunch of others will get to own this great knife. No doubt. But a LE is just that Limited. It's terrible that guys like me had to pay a premium for a knife they were just gonna reproduce a year later only without the writing on the blade. Guys like me should get a discount on the new ones.
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So by the same logic, if you and eat at a restaurant and the following week they have a buy 1 get 1 free sale are you entitled to a discount the next time you eat there? I don't think so. What makes you so special that you should be entitled to anythign? I bought the same knife and paid the same amount you did. Just be happy that you got one.

madfordiving said:
No need to get a hard on Honey plus I have a degree BEcon Economics so you lecturing me a that basic economics stuff
is like the old proverb "come grandad I'll show you your vineyard. I don't think you saw the " " I included the word
fraud but if you did then from the answer I jugde that you don't understand the meaning and this is a knife forum
not an Eglish Gramar one other wise I would explain it to you

MFD
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For all intents and purposes, I don't care what your "degree" is in as it has all of nothing to do with my post. No one here is lecturing anyone, I replied to a post that made little sense in context to what the original topic was. I understand plenty, come on now.
 
I'm a big fan of the 710. Have one in M2HS, D2 and M390

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i just ordered my first benchmade...got a nimcub 2,
before i ordred that knife i was considering a custom knife with same dimensions and blade material but was about $30 more (and didnt have a sheath for that price)....i ended up going with production knife vs custom knife....still dont know if i made the right choice but i will see the knife probably tomorrow in my mailbox.
 
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