custom folder prices

[sechip]

I was just checking all my contacts for customs and found a brand new el patron 3.75" flipper with the 3v steel... and passed on it, he was asking $ 900.00 for it.

Is it just me or what, these things were selling a couple of months ago in the $ 500.00 dollar range!... should i have sucked it up or do you think i'm justified in passing on it.

Customs are just getting too outrageously priced Imo.

 

[Grease]

Eh, makers can charge whatever the heck they want. If people don't buy, sooner or later the prices will come down. If people do buy, obviously someone thought it was a fair price.

 

[Steel130]

That is just secondary market prices. I am on Jeremy's list. I think my direct cost was even under $500 if I recall. Somewhere around $400.

 

[evanPGH]

Yeah 900 is way high for an el patron.

Highest I've seen on the secondary market was around 700 iirc.

 

[sechip]

Shirogorov model 95 with s30v just went up on the forums... $ 1500.00

 

[Misanthropia]

I was just checking all my contacts for customs and found a brand new el patron 3.75" flipper with the 3v steel... and passed on it, he was asking $ 900.00 for it.

Is it just me or what, these things were selling a couple of months ago in the $ 500.00 dollar range!... should i have sucked it up or do you think i'm justified in passing on it.

Customs are just getting too outrageously priced Imo.

There seems to be an explosion of interest in customs lately, driving the secondary market prices up astronomically. Most makers charge very reasonable prices directly from them, but the problem is that so few makers have their books open. I was lucky enough to get on the books for a Hoback A10 last July, and I sold mine for $30 more than I paid direct from Jake. On Arizona Custom knives I saw an identical A10 sell a few days later for $900. People are willing to pay crazy prices for the right goods unfortunately.

 

[evanPGH]

Shirogorov model 95 with s30v just went up on the forums... $ 1500.00

Just saw that...i think that guy is nuts but I'll end up looking like an idiot when someone grabs it.

 

[HSC ///]

There seems to be an explosion of interest in customs lately, driving the secondary market prices up astronomically. Most makers charge very reasonable prices directly from them, but the problem is that so few makers have their books open. I was lucky enough to get on the books for a Hoback A10 last July, and I sold mine for $30 more than I paid direct from Jake. On Arizona Custom knives I saw an identical A10 sell a few days later for $900. People are willing to pay crazy prices for the right goods unfortunately.

exactly, check the price of a Terzuola lately vs just a few months ago?

 

[Locutus D'Borg]

Part of it is that you are paying a premium to a dealer to get a custom immediately, without waiting a year or two. Many custom makers have 2 year or more waits, and some have closed their books. So dealers can afford to ask a higher price than the maker.

 

[evanPGH]

Part of it is that you are paying a premium to a dealer to get a custom immediately, without waiting a year or two. Many custom makers have 2 year or more waits, and some have closed their books. So dealers can afford to ask a higher price than the maker.

In a lot of cases this is all too true.

However, there are plenty of dealers that have a minimal up charge.

I paid $25 over the makers cost for my Voorhies from a dealer when the norm is easily over $100 markup.

I've even seen some makers get pissed after finding out their knives are being sold like that.

 

[Buffalohump]

This. I fear a lot of people learned nothing from the recent economic upheavals, which I was under the impression were still continuing. But clearly not for some.

People are willing to pay crazy prices for the right goods unfortunately.

 

[Buffalohump]

I would say MOST of them have closed their books. And even if you do get an order in beforehand there is no guarantee you will receive it. From what I understand the big knife shows have become a real bunfight with dealers swarming all over the place scooping up the sought after knives before the event even opens. They then post these up with their mark-up. Whatever is left over has to be 'won' in a lottery and many people salt the crowd with proxies to improve their chances of scoring a piece, or two. What a laugh. What I do now is swim in the opposite direction of the school and look for bargains that have fallen between the cracks because they aren't made by the hot new guy on the scene. I never thought the knife industry would mimic the fashion industry but I am afraid it has become that way more and more of late.

Part of it is that you are paying a premium to a dealer to get a custom immediately, without waiting a year or two. Many custom makers have 2 year or more waits, and some have closed their books. So dealers can afford to ask a higher price than the maker.

 

[LX_Emergency]

It's all about the hype man.

Once a guy gets known the secondary market freaks out and prices go up.

It's the makers you don't hear much about that have the best price to quality ratio.

So I'm not talking about the ones that I like because all you buggers will make the prices go up.

 

[freewheeling]

Prices for the Hinderer XM have gone down, probably because there are now a lot of desirable alternatives and some of those are actually licensed to Rick.

 

[unlimitednights]

Second hand market is insanely supply and demand based. Getting directly from the maker is usually what I would consider the knife should cost. Obviously a hand made knife should be pricy, but for example, Hinderers being $800+ is insane. That is just flat out, not what the knife should cost.

Edit: IN MY OPINION

 

[HSC ///]

I would say MOST of them have closed their books. And even if you do get an order in beforehand there is no guarantee you will receive it. From what I understand the big knife shows have become a real bunfight with dealers swarming all over the place scooping up the sought after knives before the event even opens. They then post these up with their mark-up. Whatever is left over has to be 'won' in a lottery and many people salt the crowd with proxies to improve their chances of scoring a piece, or two. What a laugh. What I do now is swim in the opposite direction of the school and look for bargains that have fallen between the cracks because they aren't made by the hot new guy on the scene. I never thought the knife industry would mimic the fashion industry but I am afraid it has become that way more and more of late.

Just went to the show in Vegas yesterday. My first knife show. I can attest to the above having personally witnessed it.

 

[Usagee]

I have yet to attend one of these knife shows. Would it be a waste of my time since most of the desired blades are scooped up before the door even opens? I would hate to travel across the country to stand before an empty table.

I would say MOST of them have closed their books. And even if you do get an order in beforehand there is no guarantee you will receive it. From what I understand the big knife shows have become a real bunfight with dealers swarming all over the place scooping up the sought after knives before the event even opens. They then post these up with their mark-up. Whatever is left over has to be 'won' in a lottery and many people salt the crowd with proxies to improve their chances of scoring a piece, or two. What a laugh. What I do now is swim in the opposite direction of the school and look for bargains that have fallen between the cracks because they aren't made by the hot new guy on the scene. I never thought the knife industry would mimic the fashion industry but I am afraid it has become that way more and more of late.