Does this pi$$ you off as much as it does me?

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GeneL74

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I understand that there is a market for cheap knives, but this is a blatent rip-off of a reputable company !!!! How do folks get by with it????? God, it burns my ass up! I can only imagine how Sal feels about it!
 
What a great deal!!!....I just ordered 10 of 'em so I don't have to pay shipping!!!
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I wouldn't use that POS if I was hanging by the ankle off the side of a cliff and it was the only knife I had on me.....hey, I would never have that knife on me! I would just use my Starmate instead and then I know I could really get off of that cliff!
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Thanks for pointing this out Gene.

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~Greg Mete~
Kodiak Alaska

 
What REALLY rubs me the wrong way is that the seller actually has the audacity to come right out and favorably compare the POS' to the real deal. I'm willing to bet practically anything that those POS' are "copied" in China/Taiwan. I see tons of those thing in Chinatown.
 
Check out thier entire site, click on knives and you will see they have ripped off about everybody.
www.aaabeta.com

Right off the bat, I see they have ripped off Gerber, Spyderco, Buck, Katz, Cold Steel, Kershaw, Emerson, Benchmade, Pat Crawford, and a few others. They SHOULD be ashamed of themselves, but I doubt they are. Unethical??..yep, ashamed??...not a chance.

Richard
 
Not only is it obviously a cheap rip-off POS, and they compare it to the original, and they mention the realy Spyderco in the text to imply quality, but they are audacious enough to make all this most of the selling points. Like, get these now before we get caught.

Folks, forget the rip-off knives. It's the company that's the big POS here!

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Dave
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If at first you don't succeed, go buy a knife.
 
Ahh ... the glory of free speech. Yes, it can sometimes be pure BS and victimizes the young and the weak. This happens with virtually every product and service out there.

Unfortunately, buyers need to use caution - always. At least there are some protections. The slimes had to carefully dance around the use of the Spyderco name.

If there is a bright side to this it it is that if some kid out there sinks $6 of their allowance into one of these POS only to discover that "Spiderco" is not "Spyderco", that's a very cheap price to pay for a very valuable lesson.
 
I saw an Endura Lightweight clone at my local army surplus store the other day for about $6, next to a real Endura for about $60. Hopefully any prospective buyers would realize there must be a quality difference....
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Brandon Palas
http://www.funhousedigital.com
 
GeneL74,
I want to thank you for pointing the way to their site. I never knew these guys existed until now. What a deal, a ton of cash to be made! And a person can select just what moves, instead of having to buy all kinds of other stuff like on HSN.
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Dan
 
In my line of work (LEO), I run across these POS ripoff knives all the time.For most of the folks who carry them, $5.99 is about all they are going to spend for any pocket knife (Last night, a drunk loudly bragged to me "I paid $4.88 for that at the flea market!".I resisted the temptation to tell him that he had been screwed no matter the price.)I suspect that the negative effect upon the legit manufacturers has more to do with the fact that many ignorant folks don't know the difference,and think they are buying a real Spyderco (or other fine brand) for $5.99.It is a deplorable situation, but no manufacturer can afford to go after every a**hole who can import Chinese junk and peddle it to the unknowing. If it was a criminal(rather than civil) charge, the government would pay for the prosecution. Maybe this is something AKTI and all of us should talk to our legislators about?

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AKTI Member #A000934
"Always just one knife short of perfection!"
 
I'm sorry rather than pi$$ed that the majority of people think that the $6 POS is the better value, and anyone that would pay ten times the money for something that looks the same and basicaly performs the same function is brain damaged. Get used to it!

"Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot."
 
There is one good thing about these POS's...

You can use them as trainers!!

Very easily dulled and blunted.
Same shape as your REAL knife.
Great for practicing speed openings and drawing from weird positions such as grappling etc.
If they break(and you KNOW they will)...so what?

"What is one man's POS is another man's trainer."
MrG, from his forthcoming book 'How to pick up chicks without getting arrested'
 
PhilL: "Better Idiot" ROFLMFAO...
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Where do you figure these were manufactured? Not and Eastern country, you think?

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Brandon

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"You should never never doubt what nobody is sure about..."
 
I dislike this kind of thing too.

A while back I was at a gun show and one of the dealers was no longer carrying Spyderco, Benchmade, etc. I asked what happened and he said that he could make more selling cheap knives to people who didn't know any better. Plus he had less money wrapped up in inventory.

Sad but understandable. (This approach probably would not have worked at a knife show)

I wish good luck to all manufacturers who have the courage and means to fight this kind of thing.

DaveH
 
Well I just don't understand that the ebay policies say no counterfit goods, but I see alot of the immation spydies there?

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and now they are closing the balisong ones (with blades over 2 inches)
 
Every time I go to the Tractor supply Company store out here I get pissed. Its a great store with a lot of things I need for my horses and all but they only carry about 4 types of knives. The first and foremost being Smith and Wesson. Right behind that comes the cheap chinese spyderco look alikes. Then tradesman cheapos, and then great neck multi tools. All POS. I picked up one of the look alike spydies. This one actually even copied the round hole, only it had a plastic disc in it to keep them out of trouble.The handles were injection molded really cheap plastic, and the blade would rattle on some of them when it was locked open.Not to mention it had bad grinds and was so damn dull you would have thought they never finished the grinding on it, let alone sharpen it. They had a whole box on the counter marked $5 each. Why can people get away with **** like that?

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Fix it right the first time, use Baling Wire !
 
We had a long discussion of these sorts of POS Spydie ripoffs over in the "For Sale, Dealers" and in the "Spyderco" fora a while back. The bottom line is that they do injure the legit companies in various ways, obvious and not so obvious, but that the legit companies have a near impossible task to stop them. I won't get excited about them outside of our little piece of the virtual world, but when some jackass shows up selling them in the free fora, watch out! I'll be polite, just as I was before, but I WILL challenge the jackass.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
One positive side to these cheap *ss POS knives: I have converted almost every person in the local emergency service group who bought one of these recently. After a couple months nearly every one of them realized that:
(A)The knife they bought for $10 was a $3 POS

and

(B) They really needed a GOODknife clipped in their pocket on the job

So, if nothing else good can be said of these ripoff artists at least they help us knifenuts to bring others into the quality knife fold
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Kevin Pensinger
The Edge Equipment
theedgeequipment@yahoo.com

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