Discontinued Models

KKellogg

KKellogg

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Anyone have any insight on how to get a hold of discontinued models besides on BF? I see that BHQ will put up for sale discontinued models quite often from Spyderco and yet every time I call Spyderco for a specific model I’m looking for they say I’m pretty much out of luck. How do these retailers get ahold of new in box discontinued models. I’ve been looking for the Older G10 Police 4 model forever! Haha
Thanks all for any help you can provide.
 
KKellogg said:
Anyone have any insight on how to get a hold of discontinued models besides on BF? I see that BHQ will put up for sale discontinued models quite often from Spyderco and yet every time I call Spyderco for a specific model I’m looking for they say I’m pretty much out of luck. How do these retailers get ahold of new in box discontinued models. I’ve been looking for the Older G10 Police 4 model forever! Haha
Thanks all for any help you can provide.
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Buy as many as consistently as they do. Your largest customers always get the best(if you want to stay in business anyway).
 
EB is your best bet. Arizona Customs is also another option.

I've purchased the majority of my collection of older/discontinued Spydercos from EB.

When you buy anything on EB, you need to verify (as best you can) the authenticity of the knife AND buy only from a seller that will honor a return (better free than not).

My suggestion is to ALWAYS pay w/a credit card thru PayPal. That way, if there's any dispute, you always have recourse to complain to eBay, PayPal and your credit card company in order to get a resolution in your favor

I have had to do this only once for an EB transaction (and I've purchased hundreds, if not thousands, of things on EB) that involved auto parts, not knives.

It was my credit card company that ultimately resolved the matter in my favor and refunded me the additional amount in dispute.
 
sgt1372 said:
EB is your best bet. Arizona Customs is also another option.

I've purchased the majority of my collection of older/discontinued Spydercos from EB.

When you buy anything on EB, you need to verify (as best you can) the authenticity of the knife AND buy only from a seller that will honor a return (better free than not).

My suggestion is to ALWAYS pay w/a credit card thru PayPal. That way, if there's any dispute, you always have recourse to complain to eBay, PayPal and your credit card company in order to get a resolution in your favor

I have had to do this only once for an EB transaction (and I've purchased hundreds, if not thousands, of things on EB) that involved auto parts, not knives.

It was my credit card company that ultimately resolved the matter in my favor and refunded me the additional amount in dispute.
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Great. I appreciate the info. I have had pretty good success with some old Spydercos with them. I’ll keep my eye out! Thank you for all the info.
 
Many people, such as myself, put knives we're looking for in our signature lines. It's passive, but you might get lucky. For example, I'm always on the look-out for that elusive ebony GEC 92 talon spearpoint. It took a year, but someone finally contacted me to sell me one, and if I didn't have it in my sig line, I probably never would have gotten the offer. 2 years later I got another one. I leave it in my sig line on the off-chance that I'll be able to get a third, but it's extremely unlikely (they only made 50). The thing is, you never know, but it can't hurt and you just might get lucky.
 
Planterz said:
Many people, such as myself, put knives we're looking for in our signature lines. It's passive, but you might get lucky. For example, I'm always on the look-out for that elusive ebony GEC 92 talon spearpoint. It took a year, but someone finally contacted me to sell me one, and if I didn't have it in my sig line, I probably never would have gotten the offer. 2 years later I got another one. I leave it in my sig line on the off-chance that I'll be able to get a third, but it's extremely unlikely (they only made 50). The thing is, you never know, but it can't hurt and you just might get lucky.
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Awesome thank you so much. I will do that!
 
OBTW, there was a thread recently started in the General Discussion Forum asking whether anyone keeps the boxes for the knives that they buy. I do because I'm a collector and pack rat by nature.

However, "the box" is not just something you need to decide whether to keep or not. It is, in fact, an important piece of evidence towards proving the authenticity of a knife.

There are fake boxes as well as knives but, just as they fail to perfectly fake a knife, they also fail to do so for the boxes.

I'm not sure if this is intentional or simply negligent but the differences between a faked and factory box (if you've seen the factory boxes) is pretty obvious -- most notably in the coloring and labeling, especially the description/model # designation of the knife usually on the box end.

This is less of a problem for older/discontinued knives that are not in high demand that the fakers cannot make much $ on unless they are very expensive knives where the volume of sales doesn't matter as much.

Anyway, these are the reasons why I generally will NOT buy a knife (especially on EB) unless the seller has the box and has posted (or sends me) at least a picture of the box end.

I have bought knives w/o boxes but I know I'm taking a risk doing so and, if the knife is expensive, I spend a little more time to assess the authenticity of the knife and the reliability of the seller on top of taking the consumer protection safeguards mentioned above to make sure that I can return the knife if is a fake or otherwise not as described.

As they say, "caveat emptor."
 
sgt1372 said:
OBTW, there was a thread recently started in the General Discussion Forum asking whether anyone keeps the boxes for the knives that they buy. I do because I'm a collector and pack rat by nature.

However, "the box" is not just something you need to decide whether to keep or not. It is, in fact, an important piece of evidence towards proving the authenticity of a knife.

There are fake boxes as well as knives but, just as they fail to perfectly fake a knife, they also fail to do so for the boxes.

I'm not sure if this is intentional or simply negligent but the differences between a faked and factory box (if you've seen the factory boxes) is pretty obvious -- most notably in the coloring and labeling, especially the description/model # designation of the knife usually on the box end.

This is less of a problem for older/discontinued knives that are not in high demand that the fakers cannot make much $ on unless they are very expensive knives where the volume of sales doesn't matter as much.

Anyway, these are the reasons why I generally will NOT buy a knife (especially on EB) unless the seller has the box and has posted (or sends me) at least a picture of the box end.

I have bought knives w/o boxes but I know I'm taking a risk doing so and, if the knife is expensive, I spend a little more time to assess the authenticity of the knife and the reliability of the seller on top of taking the consumer protection safeguards mentioned above to make sure that I can return the knife if is a fake or otherwise not as described.

As they say, "caveat emptor."
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Great info. I was fooled once early in my career of knife collecting with a PM2. Was a huge fiasco with EB. Have learned my lesson since. Thanks for the info
 
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