Better strategy. Sell or trade off?

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Finn-lander

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Hi All,

As with many of you, my tastes have changed since starting to accumulate knives. I started off with simple folders, moved to fancy folders, then fixed blades, and now starting to look at customs. What to do with the older, more common production knives (condition of knives vary)? Does it ever work to try to offer multiple lesser knives for one higher end knife or best to sell them and buy it outright? What have you done?

Finn-lander
 
Finn-lander said:
Hi All,

As with many of you, my tastes have changed since starting to accumulate knives. I started off with simple folders, moved to fancy folders, then fixed blades, and now starting to look at customs. What to do with the older, more common production knives (condition of knives vary)? Does it ever work to try to offer multiple lesser knives for one higher end knife or best to sell them and buy it outright? What have you done?

Finn-lander
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Not unless they are a bunch of the most sought after production knives.. I haven't really seen too many trades for high end knives. I even once offered a whole bunch of rare, discontinued benchmades that would bring in over $200 each and didn't even get a nibble for a trade. Then I sold them all and got what I wanted. You might get lucky trading a bunch of cheaper production knives.. but just selling them off and getting money is your best bet.
 
Advertise for sale or trade and see what you can work out.

Check out the rules on this forum if you plan to do it here.

Sometimes it's hard to find a buyer and sometimes a trade is hard ... you just have to see what happens.
 
Finn-lander said:
Does it ever work to try to offer multiple lesser knives for one higher end knife
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I remember when I was selling knives here a few years ago, I used to get PMs from some guy wanting to trade 12 of his junk/flea-market "butterfly" knives for each decent knife I was selling.

I always said no thanks.

Not once have I ever considered trading a good knife for multiple lower-end models.

I'd assume most people selling/trading knives feel the same way---they'd be willing to trade up or trade evenly, but never down.
 
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Tony_A said:
. . . Not once have I ever considered trading a good knife for multiple lower-end models.

I'd assume most people selling/trading knives feel the same way---they'd be willing to trade up or trade evenly, but never down.
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I agree. Very rarely do I see people wanting to trade down. Usually it's up or even. So it's best to sell, and then buy what you want. FYI, you need to be a paying member to do so here.
 
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There is less risk selling knives vs trading also. I won't ship out a knife until it's been paid for but trying to ship a traded knife at the same time the other person supposedly ships requires a lot more trust.
 
hoopster said:
There is less risk selling knives vs trading also. I won't ship out a knife until it's been paid for but trying to ship a traded knife at the same time the other person supposedly ships requires a lot more trust.
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Very good point.

I only trade with folks that I know.
 
while I've made a few good trades, mostly I've sold my unwanted blades for the cash to buy new ones.
 
It is hard to trade multiple cheaper knives for one more expensive.
Cuz once you go good quality/custom/etc you don't want to get more cheaper one.
Trading works with same "class" knives.
 
Probably better to sell all the knives you don't need. The only way a trade would work is if the other person actually wants the knives you offer.

Hypothetically speaking, my entire collection might be worth over $1000, but I doubt I could get someone to trade me their XM-18 even with this fact in mind.
 
Much better to sell than trade. If buying from a purveyor, then I really doubt they would do any trading for production pieces, unless very high end.:)
 
Thanks All,

Yeah that is what I thought. It may be time to evaluate the collection, determine what is not likely going to get used, upgrade my membership, and offer them up for sale or trade. I am one that likes to research things so I think my collection is made up quality pieces (granted they are production models) so hopefully they would move quickly to free up some funds for new ones.

Finn-lander
 
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