Custom Shop.. Bad Feelings

Okay, how much would a Buck 110 with ATS-34 (or 154CM), nickle-silver bolsters, finger-grooves, no pins, and walnut scales cost now?

Thanks Rocinante.
 
Well, that would be about $20.00 dollars more than I paid last year....not too bad I guess.:(
Of course I would probably be better off just getting a Basspro 154CM 110 for about $80.00 dollars.

Thanks again Rocinante.
 
You're welcome.

The Basspro and Cabela's stuff will undoubtedly be going up soon.

The stag AG110 from Cabela's is a limited run of 500 according to their site.

Cabela's has one of those discount offers out now that would shave $20 off the $154.95 price.

Stag alone is $288 at the Custom Shoppe (yes, just choosing sambar stag slabs alone costs $288, then you build the rest of the knife).

I'm sitting here looking out at a rainy day and wondering if I should drive 100 miles round-trip to bag the last two stags at my Cabela's.

Gas cost would be about $25.

Oh.......inertia is setting in to keep me in my place, I guess.
 
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I pretty much share Goose's opinion. I feel like I have been 'blind sided' by the Custom price increases. Well, it is a tit for tat world and the thousand dollars I would have spent in the Custom Shoppe this year, will now be going to Schatt & Morgan and Great Eastern Cutlery. Had it not been for the price increases in the Custom Shoppe, I may have never discovered the makers above.
 
allenC said:
Well, that would be about $20.00 dollars more than I paid last year....not too bad I guess.:(
Of course I would probably be better off just getting a Basspro 154CM 110 for about $80.00 dollars.

Thanks again Rocinante.
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Try pricing a 110 with S30V steel and stag scales. It comes to $380. That's a far cry from the $120 I paid for one last year.
 
Mike Kerins said:
Try pricing a 110 with S30V steel and stag scales. It comes to $380. That's a far cry from the $120 I paid for one last year.
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For a stag S30V Buck 110, $120.00 dollars is a great price.
Heck, $150.00 is still a good price.
But $380.00 dollars?!?! No way!:thumbdn::thumbdn::thumbdn:

In the last couple of years I have been all over this forum (and other forums) raving about Buck's Custom Shoppe 110's and recommending them to anyone looking for a great knife for a great price....it looks like I will not be doing that anymore.
Now I can only recommend the Alaskan Guide 110 from Cabela's and the 154CM 110 from Basspro Shop....at least until they jack up their prices too!
 
allenC said:
That's insane!!! :mad:
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I agree. I think good stag is available far cheaper than that......but the knife you get far cheaper will not have BUCK Custom stamped on it.

Buck custom stags thus become more rare......and resale will reflect that.

So people will buy them and be happy.

The psychology of buying and collecting will, in a very short time, make the new prices normal.

Thus we can also say, in truth:

THE OLD PRICES WERE INSANELY LOW.
 
Had a new stag 110 in mind myself---till I saw the pricing.

Just went ahead and bought the Marlin 39A ($500) that I've been looking at for a long time---with 2 huge chunks of walnut that would make probably make 100 scales that Buck is now charging $15 a pair for now. Even the walnut charge is an outrage now too.
 
IMO the Custom Shop has been very under priced for a very long time and has probably lost them money. And face it, if you're ordering or thinking about ordering a custom shop knife you're no longer a "working man" in the sense I understand it.
 
DaveH said:
IMO the Custom Shop has been very under priced for a very long time and has probably lost them money. And face it, if you're ordering or thinking about ordering a custom shop knife you're no longer a "working man" in the sense I understand it.
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I don't think anyone disagrees (well, maybe a few) that the custom shop was very underpriced in the past. However, it has now gone to being very overpriced (at least with a number of the current options) without an intermediate step between the two and that is what had most people concerned (I think).
 
Idunno, maybe they were so underpriced that their correction is valid.

Speculation on such is simply opinion.

The only way to actually KNOW is to see if people order knives at the new prices.

I've already heard of two today on this forum.

Think about it.

If people will buy.......the price is correct.

A knife is worth what the buyer will pay.
 
Was the Custom Shoppe underpriced?

Possibly.
But not THAT underpriced!

A jump from around $120.00 for stag and premium steel to $380.00 dollars???
No, there's something wrong with this picture.

If people will buy.......the price is correct.

A knife is worth what the buyer will pay.
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There have always been those folks who are affluent enough that price ceases to be even a consideration.
But those aren't the folks who made Buck Knives the success that it is and was.
Buck is playing a very dangerous game that might just cost them their customer base.
 
allenC said:
Was the Custom Shoppe underpriced?

Possibly.

There have always been those folks who are affluent enough that price ceases to be even a consideration.
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...:cool:...There has always been an encampment of those folks in BF...I, unfortunately, am in the "other camp"...:(
 
I've never posted in the BladeForums, so a quick intro. I'm David Visnack, the VP of Marketing at Buck Knives. I oversee all the Product, Marketing, E-commerce, and Warranty activity for Buck Knives.

After reading the threads associated with the Buck CKS it's clear that many of you are upset by the new pricing. This is understandable since the pricing has been set 2X higher on the website than what it should be. When we add product to our website we enter the prices at wholesale and the site automatically recalculates to retail pricing. The prices for handles and blades were entered at retail, so the site has automatically, albeit inaccurately, doubled the prices on the CKS. Typically we would have caught this error but our E-commerce group has been in transition and I neglected to check the site when the CKS went live. We are looking to correct this problem ASAP and I truly apologize for the inconvenience and the sticker shock. Our goal at Buck is not to create stratospheric pricing, but rather to deliver reliable value.

If you purchased a knife at 2x inflated pricing, a customer service representative will contact you personally to remedy the situation.


Best Regards,

David Visnack
VP of Marketing
Buck Knives Inc.
 
:cool:...What the heck is decaf up to now???...I got a bad feeling about this...Why hasn't Joe been allowed to break this news?????:eek::eek:
 
DarrylS said:
:cool:...What the heck is decaf up to now???...I got a bad feeling about this...Why hasn't Joe been allowed to break this news?????:eek::eek:
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nothing i can tell you about, i dont know this dave vp...
he was not in atlanta i dont think... i normaly notice other dave's..
i would ask... Joe comes here all the time and we know him..
his relationship with us makes his words like soft snow when we are on fire about some thing...
i realy want to hear this from him ,,, he is the one that i know and trust
i need to meet you when i get to post falls...
i will be the one with a kilt on on the back of goose's scoot...
joe were you?
 
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