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Do you remember how much you paid for some of the discontinued/not made for a while spydies that are

Spyderco is making again ?

I paid $126 nib for my Chinook 3... The Chinook 4 is $204 with a much better steel than s30v. I paid $100 for my pe ATR on the bay. It was in

vg to excellent condition. I don't know how much the new ATR's are going to be.


Ya, I know prices have to go up say in business. Just fun to compare prices from several years ago

to the 2017 price.:D
 
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$90 for my Lil' Matriarch
$110 for my Spyderhawk Salt, and $130 for the second one

almost paid $160 for a Caspian Salt twice
 
If I recall correctly I paid about 30 bucks apiece for my 93-94 Enduras back in those years. No longer have those but it strange, and telling, about how value, inflation and popularity might affect prices over a 20+ year period.

If I got a 30 dollar Endura today I'd believe it was a fake. Lol


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Price inflation has been pretty steep by my reckoning. The new MAP pricing was a sharp bump up. Prices are still competitive for the most part because other manufacturers have raised priced too. Benchmade comes to mind as a company that seems to charge more for less. Their MAP price adjustment was bigger than Spyderco's. Meanwhile they barely innovate.
 
the prices are higher cause they can be.

sure inflation insurance costs have gone up, wages etc. weirdly firearms which use a lot more material more engineering and setup costs and involve more processes and steps and regulations costs etc etc..... costs go up and down in price due to demand, whereas knives seem to stay constant or go up. figure that one out.

this comment is on the industry as a whole. not picking on any one maker.

so for this thread every knife is going to have been cheaper before and more expensive now. course sometimes we get better qc and steel and materials than before so it isnt a total loss, but then again sometimes we dont.:)
 
jbmonkey said:
the prices are higher cause they can be.

sure inflation insurance costs have gone up, wages etc. weirdly firearms which use a lot more material more engineering and setup costs and involve more processes and steps and regulations costs etc etc..... costs go up and down in price due to demand, whereas knives seem to stay constant or go up. figure that one out.

this comment is on the industry as a whole. not picking on any one maker.

so for this thread every knife is going to have been cheaper before and more expensive now. course sometimes we get better qc and steel and materials than before so it isnt a total loss, but then again sometimes we dont.:)
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Actually, now that I think about it; I believe my Enduras were AUS-8(?) if I remember correctly. So it seems adding in all the factors you mentioned, over a 20 year time span, a price bump was inevitable.


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