Do you think this CRKT is a fake?

welcome to the forum. From the pictures, it looks real...the price does seem a little fishy but sometimes nobody bids on an item so the price stays low. If it was a buy it now item, there has to be something wrong with it or it is a very good fake.
 
A quick Google search turns up with a certain giant Internet retailers with the same knife for $18, so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary.
 
Nope looks legit, price is decent and I know a few people have gotten the M16 for $18~ shipped so the $12.00+$5 is not anything "surprising".
 
Be advised that the blade is AUS-4. I have a couple of CRKT M21's that cost a little more, but have nice aluminum scales and AUS-8 blades. From what I've read, AUS-4 is pretty soft. Useable, but don't expect it to hold an edge for very long. You get what you pay for.
 
I am just going to be a bad fellow here and make a smart alec remark right off the bat. Forgive me.

Given what one hears so much about with regard to CRKT (much, much more than just about any other maker save perhaps Frost (not Sweden's Frosts which is great)), a fake wouldn't seem to be very likely a worse knife than the real thing.

You can find a nice Buck at a big box store for very little more money and you'll have a good knive with good steel that has been heat treated correctly. I am not going to say "get a Sebenza ($400)", there are a lot of very inexpensive knives out there that will serve you well...shop around. CRKT markets itself as a high end retail, big box store, knife. They make attractive looking products and whatnot but they don't do their engineering and metalurgy very well...by most accounts.

Buck on the other hand does a very good job of engineering, metalurgy and thay have some very contemporary designs that are nice.
 
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These go on sale at Big 5 for $15-20 all the time.
 
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