Boxes

I haven't put Any of my knives in boxes, maybe that's why they don't get resold.......?
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I hate boxes and trashed most of them recently. yard waste bag sized bags I tossed the boxes. take up too much room and too long to find anything to ever get the benefit out of then. if I had a dozen knives I might be tempted to keep them, bit amount i have. I started tossing them.

it will affect the resell value by a lot without the boxes and stuff but I didn't care.
 
I throw them away. Unless they are special. Wood or metal. Then I only save them to repurpose them. My diamond plates in a Buck LE wood box IMG_5628.jpeg

Cardboard boxes are a pain to store. Too easily damaged and not worth the trouble to save. My storage space is better used in other ways.

If I sell the knife and loose money I have made up for the loss by saving aggravation.

If you buy a high end custom knife it will come in a plain brown box. Should I save that too?

To sum it up. I collect knives not boxes.

I hate when a knife comes in fancy packaging that I am forced to waste my money on.
 
Just curious.

Do y'all toss COA's? What about extra parts, branded cleaning rags and other swag? If not, how do you store and associate that with the correct knife?

What about pouches?
 
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Landshark99 said:
I now keep all my boxes unfortunately, they take up space and I honestly believe that having the box when one sells a knife says nothing about how the knife was treated. I do understand with the more expensive knives with COAs, that the box is a part of the sale everybody wants but I find it fascinating that if I sell a well kept less expensive knife for say $75, most people ask if it comes with the box.
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I think I have every box of like 600 . . . that's what crawl spaces were designed for right ? THE PLACE where everyone stores their knife boxes. I mean why else would they make a "space" like that ?
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I never sell a knife.
I would easily buy a used knife if it did not come with the box . . . as long as it was a knife I HAD TO HAVE , for one reason or another . . .
hmmmm
I don't NEED to keep my boxes . . . hmmmmmm
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. . . although it could be the Japanese thing . They/we enjoy packaging . The cooler and more beautiful the better . . .
Though , as far as I know, I have no significant asian DNA I do look vaguely Asian , so did my Mom , I identify STRONGLY with some Japanese arts/activities/cultural norms (I sincerely hope this does not offend anyone reading this🧎‍♂️=as close to a bow as I could find) . . .
that part of me likes cool packaging.

One thing I noticed from when I was a very young child : as my mother would take groceries out of the shopping bags and set them on the table she would turn the front toward's her and look at it ; then take out the next .
What did I gather from this ?
1 ) she held down two part time jobs during the depression while her husband / my Dad was laid up with an incurable bone disease (they finally found a cure) and she KNEW what it was like to not have enough to eat .
2 ) she was enjoying every moment of finally having enough including enjoying the packaging .
 
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All my knife boxes fit in one bigger box without issue, and as a box filled with empty boxes, it is light as can be, and "one box" hardly makes a difference for me in storing away somewhere appropriate like in the attic... (it was a heavy box however during my move pending divorce, when all the boxes had the knives once again in them).

That said though, in an overvsaturated market, with plenty enough clones out there, it's still not a guarantee w/ vs. w/o a box, but if ever buying on the secondary market, having original packaging does give me some level of added comfort. And w/o packaging, I'd be hard pressed to ever pay even close to actually present value. 20-30% of actual value, maybe I still bite w/o original packaging, it's not complete deal breaker if I really like the knife, but for me at least it definitely still matters to a degree. As such, if/when selling a knife, I do incl. original packaging whenever possible, (and am willing to sell at a substantially lower cost if I cannot include it).
 
I don't sell my knives, but I tend to keep most of the boxes, because they do get gifted on the regular. The exceptions are the budget knives like Moraknivs and less expensive ones with cheap boxes, like Condor or Buck (except some of the pricey ones). The boxes go in the trash from the cheaper Boker knives despite the nice boxes. Sometimes cheaper knives have spare parts to keep track of so the boxes are kept. While I really like the tubes that the Helle knives come in, they're just too big to keep, when you have a couple hundred knives to find storage space for. When they're not rotated to work stations or staging areas, knives get stored in their boxes, but not in their leather sheaths if any.
 
I've changed my tune on boxes. I used to save them all, had a few banker's boxes full of them, and a property that I owned that had room to store them without problem. I recently sold that property (on a tight schedule) and had to get a dumpster to get rid of most the stuff stored there, only saving things of utmost importance. The experience altered my outlook on the subject. Many of the boxes ended up being for things I no longer own, and I customize all my knives anyway with no regard to resale value. Going forward, to hell with boxes.

(with some exceptions of course).
 
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Yes, I keep the boxes and the goodies that come with it. I never feel that I will sell any of them until I do.
It makes it easier to ensure it’s in safe transit when I do sell one on occasion.
 
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