COMPARISONS.

It's actually a nice comparison, if people can look at things objectively. However I'd imagine this is still gonna get flamed because there are other factors in play when choosing a knife and how people associate the value to these factors i.e. the look of the knife, the brand, the cool factor, fidget-ability etc...
 
:) So far as the price comparisons alone , Cold Steel comes out even farther ahead on actual "street price " .

I usually pay around half or less of MSRP for CS . The competition mostly has MAP or similar price fixing except for specials and closeouts .
 
the spyderco Caribbean has no competitor in cold steel. silly comparison. one built for ocean water and corrosive use the other regular dry land use.

I like my cold steels but this comparison chart made little sense to me other than trying to drag non knife folks towards cold steel and if that's the point then I guess it would work.......
 
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Haha! It was a little surprising and flattering to me to see the Amalgam in a Cold Steel ad. Guess I should check out the Ultimate Hunter :p. Merry Christmas guys!
 
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jbmonkey said:
the spyderco Caribbean has no competitor in cold steel. silly comparison. one built for ocean water and corrosive use the other regular dry land use.

I like my cold steels but this comparison chart made little sense to me other than trying to drag non knife folks towards cold steel and if that's the point then I guess it would work.......
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Well , yeah ! It's an advertisement , so ...take with big grains of salt . :rolleyes:

Speaking of salt . I recently purchased an Orange Spyderhawk in H1 . CS just does not offer a comparable knife with such extreme corrosion resistance . Their strength is in maximum value for performance . But part of the price of that is a less varied product line .
 
DocJD said:
Well , yeah ! It's an advertisement , so ...take with big grains of salt . :rolleyes:

Speaking of salt . I recently purchased an Orange Spyderhawk in H1 . CS just does not offer a comparable knife with such extreme corrosion resistance . Their strength is in maximum value for performance . But part of the price of that is a less varied product line .
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so you agree completely with me then. good to know.
 
jbmonkey said:
the spyderco Caribbean has no competitor in cold steel. silly comparison. one built for ocean water and corrosive use the other regular dry land use.

I like my cold steels but this comparison chart made little sense to me other than trying to drag non knife folks towards cold steel and if that's the point then I guess it would work.......
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Pretty much the point, just like any commercials out there. We are not the target audience.
 
jbmonkey said:
the spyderco Caribbean has no competitor in cold steel. silly comparison. one built for ocean water and corrosive use the other regular dry land use.

I like my cold steels but this comparison chart made little sense to me other than trying to drag non knife folks towards cold steel and if that's the point then I guess it would work.......
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Of course its a marketing ploy, they are in the selling business after all, I just thought it was entertaining. I don't see much of this nowadays, grew up with it and the claims/comparisons were very amusing.
 
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Pretty much the point, just like any commercials out there. We are not the target audience.
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yeah that is true. it doesnt stop me from liking cold steel or the knives I like, just didnt care for it.

nephron said:
Of course its a marketing ploy, they are in the selling business after all, I just thought it was entertaining. I don't see much of this nowadays, grew up with it and the claims/comparisons were very amusing.
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true didnt see it that way being here but ya brought it here and I didnt pay attention to that. I just dont like it, it's not accurate.....but most marketing isnt.

DocJD DocJD you know I was goofing around with ya dont ya? I like my cold steel knives great value in many of them. marketing side I just dont care much for but I guess they got to sell knives to stay afloat or i cant cant get the ones I like at a good price.;)
 
"Buyer beware " is always good advise . I generally try to research from the most unbiased sources and to consider both positive and negative independent reviews .

If ads were reality , buying certain beverages , toiletries , cars and clothes would make you rich/ successful and surround you with adoring friends and sexy supermodels . :rolleyes::p
 
DocJD said:
"Buyer beware " is always good advise . I generally try to research from the most unbiased sources and to consider both positive and negative independent reviews .

If ads were reality , buying certain beverages , toiletries , cars and clothes would make you rich/ successful and surround you with adoring friends and sexy supermodels . :rolleyes::p
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what this doesn't work....;) darn........

 
CS seems to have missed including country of manufacture.:rolleyes:

Some of their blade steel may be made in the US (as they point out in the ad) but none of their shown knives are.
 
Heh! Heh! Its all true!!!
There are knives and then... there is coldsteel; a brand so way ahead and above all others in price, value and build that it would simply be a tragic mistake to disregard the absolute proof of its well researched marketing.
Sometimes the truth hurts, but as the old saying goes, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can"t make it to drink."...
Well I don't require further convincing, as i am still very much drowning in debt from my last experince of a coldsteel tsunami.
 
Thanks, nephron, for posting that link. I think Cold Steel's comparisons with competitors' knives are fun to see. Some of the model choices for comparison were strange, I thought. (What do a tanto Recon 1 and a sheepsfoot Caribbean have in common?) But overall, it was an entertaining continuation of the lock strength battles.

I do have to say that I find this comparison a bit gauche.

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It seems to me that if Spyderco was good enough to permit Cold Steel to use its patented reverse S blade shape, Cold Steel owes Spyderco the courtesy of not trying to steal its Civilian customers with this kind of ad. It's as though Cold Steel is saying, "Thanks for letting us use the design. By the way, we made your knife better, stronger, and cheaper."

I'm sure it's just friendly competition. Sal has said he and Lynn get along well, and there's no doubt that Cold Steel and Spyderco are the leaders of the production knife world in the advancement of materials, technology, and performance. But it still struck me as kind of tasteless. Without the Civilian, there never would have been the Black Talon.

-Steve
 
The Whip said:
Thanks, nephron, for posting that link. I think Cold Steel's comparisons with competitors' knives are fun to see. Some of the model choices for comparison were strange, I thought. (What do a tanto Recon 1 and a sheepsfoot Caribbean have in common?) But overall, it was an entertaining continuation of the lock strength battles.

I do have to say that I find this comparison a bit gauche.

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It seems to me that if Spyderco was good enough to permit Cold Steel to use its patented reverse S blade shape, Cold Steel owes Spyderco the courtesy of not trying to steal its Civilian customers with this kind of ad. It's as though Cold Steel is saying, "Thanks for letting us use the design. By the way, we made your knife better, stronger, and cheaper."

I'm sure it's just friendly competition. Sal has said he and Lynn get along well, and there's no doubt that Cold Steel and Spyderco are the leaders of the production knife world in the advancement of materials, technology, and performance. But it still struck me as kind of tasteless. Without the Civilian, there never would have been the Black Talon.

-Steve
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A Matriarch comparison would have made more sense. Of course, CS wouldn’t want to do that as the Matriarch is cheaper than the Black Talon II. :rolleyes:
 
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