Dealer that doesn't want to sell knives?

GigOne said:
F****s like that. . . ."I wouldn't piss on their guts if they were on fire". . . .is a mild understatement. ;)
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Lordy. I wasn't expecting that. Gotta go find a towel to wipe my monitor down.:D

And although I didn't appreciate it, the treatment from the dealer - not the Gigster, I don't think it turned out that bad. I re hooked up with another guy who has come through many times in the past so I'm gonna get what I was cheesin for in the first place.:thumbup: :thumbup:
 
OilMan said:
Lordy. I wasn't expecting that. Gotta go find a towel to wipe my monitor down.:D
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The Gigster will keep ya guessin' ! :D


And I can't be held responsible for your drinking. . .err. . . .spraying habits. :p :D
 
That's a nice policy, notdos. Intermediaries shouldn't be playing favorites, imo. If someone wants a knife from a particular maker, they should be on their waiting list, not yours. It would really be pointless to even run a website if all your inventory was constantly spoken for, and you had no control over the speed and quantity to replenish such handmade pieces.
 
Just speaking from my own perspective, I don't play favorites with my customers; everyone's money is worth the same to me. That said, I am extremely slow at times getting new stuff into our store and up on the web. Sometimes it'll be ready to go, other times it'll be on the web, but not in the offline system, or vice versa.

To speed this up, I updated our store website recently, hopefully it will decrease times for getting new products "live" and online.

That said, if it's in stock in the store, but not on the website, we can sell it right then and there. If it's physically in teh store, but not in the system, it can be added in less than 5 minutes. Hopefully the guy you are dealing with just learns that a sale lost is never recouped.
 
Found what I was looking for by posting in the Wanted to Buy area. Here's what is going to be in my hands soon: (Stolen Picture Alert)(At a much better price than what I would have gotten from the original dealer I had issues with.:p )

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Sometimes I wonder also. I was at the knife and gun show in Tulsa recently and found a guy that had some knives I really liked. He paid the money to come to the show and present his stuff, paid for a table and space, drove a hell of a distance to get there from out of state and when I asked him about making one for me and doing this particular engraving he says to me. I no longer sell them.

I'm like, excuse me? You have them on display with price tags what do you mean you don't sell them? He looked at me with a puzzled look like he didn't get it.

From my point of view, why spend the money to travel and pay for booth space if you are not selling anything? Go figure. I left. I just met the guy. He didn't know me I didn't know him so maybe it is a front business or something or maybe he just didn't like my smile. Go figure.

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notdos said:
I apologize if I'm not explaining it clearly. If I tried to sell every hot knife I receive to every person that had asked me about them (again to be fair) I'd have to maintain a waiting list years long. Since that's not realistic, I simply post and sell allowing the first/fastest/luckiest to score.
At this moment there are guys on the four corners of the planet hitting refresh on my site and many other sites hoping that knives from the hottest makers will pop up.
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This sounds to me like a case of Way The Heck More Demand Than Supply.

If I was a business owner in that spot (and I'm not, so I'm not beating you up here, just trying to paraphrase what you're saying, in order to figure out whether I/we understand it) that would tell me to do one of two things.

Option one would be to raise prices. Raise 'em way up. Raise 'em up until I've got just a few more buyers than knives. Just a little pressure on the demand side.

Or option two is to get more knives. Increase my supply to meet the demand. With custom knives, this obviously isn't always possible, so that's why it's option two :)

Again, I'm not a dealer, so maybe I'm oversimplifying to the point of being wrong. Fair enough, I could be.

But does that make sense, or am I crazy?
Mike
 
okee dokee...Never let it be said I'm not responsive to customers.

I can't imagine how anybody in ther right mind would think that by telling customers about what I have incoming is somehow tricking them is beyond me. My goal was to always make every first time customer feel like they're just as important as guys that spend money with me regularly. I just wanted people to feel like they had a fair shot. But,,I'm apparently wrong for trying to be fair.

I'm gonna include a link in every e-mail communication I have with customers so when I tell them I no longer do not show favoritism and sell to whoever, whenever they'll know why.



Thanks again and rock on,
Phillip
 
Here ya go. The New Policy because I was obviously wrong with my original plan.
You can also view it on my website.


My new policy is to keep all my new knives that are inbound a secret (unless I decide to sell it to you because you're a pal) so nobody gets their feelings hurt when they don't get first shot. Favoritism Is King.
 
Joe has been a customer and friend of Harry the knife dealer for several years and has bought over 50 knives. Joe has been searching for a Moo Loo killa knife for a long long time. Harry has one inbound.
Irving is a new knifeknut and has never bought a custom knife from anyone. He has never heard of Harry. Harry does not know Irving.
Irving E-mails Harry the dealer and asks if he will be getting a Moo Goo killa soon. Harry says "watch my website if I get one I will post it for sale"

On Friday Harry lists the knife and Irving and Joe reply at the same time.
Who do you think the dealer will sell to.

Good!!! Glad to see there is no favortism in the knife world........:p :p ;)
 
Phillip , dont sweat the small stuff , dont change over one sour grape.

Being yourself has worked thus far , keep on keeping on my friend.
 
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