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Buying the latest Northwoods from KSF
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I get a bit frustrated with this process sometimes and the Northwoods selling out in minutes. I didn't see the notification email on the Hawthornes until about an hour after the appointed time. All gone of course. I didn't even get to see what they were selling for to even consider. Frustrating, but once I get on a knife buying urge, I usually just buy something else; but, usually isn't from KSF at that point. Hence they loose a sale. There are only so many $ available for toys. I view this whole thing as artificial scarcity. But I don't think Derrick has much control over the production numbers. I don't blame him at all and I think the limited numbers are really good for his business with nearly instantaneous return on his investment. They run a tight ship at KSF with great customer service, quick order processing, and reliable shipping.
The other option is to do pre-orders at KSF. But I don't like to order something blindly whether it be from KSF, DLT, or Collector Knives.
I did quick order thing with the denim #71's that KSF had for sale a while back. I made a hasty effort to order and screwed up clicking on a non-denim #71 for the purchase. The knife I bought was just fine, but not what I wanted at the time.
Waynorth's stuff is the same. I think the Diamond Jack was a real nice jigged bone offering for Waynorth, but I refuse to pay the price at about $50 over what I think it should cost relative to the one-blade Weasel's. I'm not a collector and have no interest in that. I seldom even go to the BF exchange to look. My theory is that Waynorth is frustrated with the secondary market pricing and wants his "share" when he takes all the risk. I can understand that perfectly. I might well do the same thing in his shoes assuming my guess is correct. I also see that the Diamond Jacks have not sold out at his dealers.
The problem lies with GEC, their production capabilities, and seemingly reducing the available SFO knives to frames that they plan on producing anyway.
The other option is to do pre-orders at KSF. But I don't like to order something blindly whether it be from KSF, DLT, or Collector Knives.
I did quick order thing with the denim #71's that KSF had for sale a while back. I made a hasty effort to order and screwed up clicking on a non-denim #71 for the purchase. The knife I bought was just fine, but not what I wanted at the time.
Waynorth's stuff is the same. I think the Diamond Jack was a real nice jigged bone offering for Waynorth, but I refuse to pay the price at about $50 over what I think it should cost relative to the one-blade Weasel's. I'm not a collector and have no interest in that. I seldom even go to the BF exchange to look. My theory is that Waynorth is frustrated with the secondary market pricing and wants his "share" when he takes all the risk. I can understand that perfectly. I might well do the same thing in his shoes assuming my guess is correct. I also see that the Diamond Jacks have not sold out at his dealers.
The problem lies with GEC, their production capabilities, and seemingly reducing the available SFO knives to frames that they plan on producing anyway.
I usually invite several friends over and have a few beers. Then we set up 6 or 7 computers on gigabit internet. Usually we can open up several carts on each computer. We see who can put the most Northwoods in a cart at a time then come to BF to read people complaining. It's very enjoyable.
Lol, I'm just kidding.
I think the only enjoyable part for me is excitement of a new release... and seeing the covers on the knives. Most of the Northwoods are very unique since they use a lot of giraffe and camel. Other than that is mostly not enjoyable trying to buy the one I want.
I've been fortunate the only 2 Northwoods (and one GEC KSF blue camel) drops that I've been able to get at least one knife. I ended up with one yesterday that I'm not sure I'm happy about but having my first choice sniped from me in the cart I just grabbed one. I really wish that there was at least a few minute window if you got one in your cart that you were fine to get your CC info in. It seems the price difference between the NW and GEC equivalents was higher this time around too. Curious how that will translate into the secondary pricing. I'm not complaining because I think GEC and KSF should benefit but I'm going to be chasing some micarta in the next few days i think.
I don't really think any cart sniping is going on. Like, nobody is taking the knife out of your cart. Someone else already has the knife in their cart before you put it into yours. So they finalize the purchase before you actually get a chance to because they got to it first. I had that happen to me several times with some nice giraffe covers yesterday but I still managed to grab one.
Everyone. I've missed out on many drops and not just Northwoods. It's just part of it. If you can't have fun or find a way to enjoy it then why even bother? The competition makes it fun for me and even more when you score.
Oh, I like this. So, all the people complaining about being cart sniped are really the ones trying to snipe from someone else
That is correct. Do you agree or disagree? Are people that are getting "cart sniped" waiting around to pay? Or are they trying to race to pay for it? The latter is what is happening. So it's obvious someone else beet them to it. Not sniped from them.
Are you suggesting that if I place a knife in my cart first that it's not the case someone else could have added it later and paid a few seconds faster than me? So there is no need to rush? Because it really doesn't seem to be the case.
Regardless of the semantics the process can be better. I don't want to be chasing a knife someone else already has in their cart. And I say this again and someone who has been successful.
This my system. First I log into my account at KSF, then in a separate window open and log into my paypal account. Then when KSF goes live and I put what I want into my cart hit confirm/buy its done. From time KSF went live yesterday I checked all the covers bought the one I wanted in under 30 seconds.
I know I might draw some criticism here, but I kinda think that all the "fancy covers" should be lumped together like the micartas.
Then what you get is random and there is much less chance you don't get a knife. You just will have to roll the dice to see if you get a "good" one.
Like GunGraber, I kinda do enjoy the rush, and also like many here, I've missed too, last year's TC barlow being a good example.
Then what you get is random and there is much less chance you don't get a knife. You just will have to roll the dice to see if you get a "good" one.
Like GunGraber, I kinda do enjoy the rush, and also like many here, I've missed too, last year's TC barlow being a good example.