DORK OPS at SHOT Show 2005(?)

Someone better take some pix of the booth babes if they have some, that's all I gotta say.

Maybe they'e going to show the knives AFTER the 3:30 beer..

500K will buy a lotta beer.
 
i have 2 possible theories on Dark "Dork" Ops knives' advertising campaign:

1. it's funded by Extrema Ratio to make Dark Ops look silly and make ER look like "the really good cool great original brand"

2. it's funded by a former ER-employee who got fired and got a fine sum of money to get his a** out of there. now he's extremely disgruntled and has a severe grudge and spent all his money on the campaign to make ER look like a joke.....

farfetched? weird? paranoid? well, yeah, but hey, it could just be.......
 
Well... ER knives are still overpriced and ridiculous in design... and so are all the Dork copies...

Spend money the knives. Not on hiring a fake man who lies about his rank.
 
Dork Knives said:
Techniques Demonstration with Paul Basal at 1:00PM & 3:00PM
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Guys! Wear face shields and cover your FREE beers with your hands! You don't want to get blood splatter in your eyes or in your beer. :eek: :eek:
 
Truthfully it goes without saying that Dark Ops money spent on the ads alone is proof that some people out there have more money than brains. (more money than heart too because think of what that money for just one add could do for some disaster relief or causes that are equally needy.)

If I understand this correctly. Blade and other knife magazines have run adds for these knives??? Is there a single person anywhere in the world that has actually even held one of these DO knives in their hands? If the answer is a resounding no, it makes you wonder why Blade or other magazines or advertisers in the knife world would even support such a fraud in the first place by having them in their magazine if they don't actually exist. But I guess no one in this world would turn down green backs instead of do the right thing and not advertise a fraudulent company more interested in fantasy and deceit than reality.

You know during my youth no legit company would have had any business doings with any fake company for fear of the way it would have reflected on them because they were not legit or even for real. A sign of the times maybe? I guess so.
 
STR said:
it makes you wonder why Blade or other magazines or advertisers in the knife world would even support such a fraud in the first place by having them in their magazine if they don't actually exist. But I guess no one in this world would turn down green backs instead of do the right thing and not advertise a fraudulent company more interested in fantasy and deceit than reality.
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There are laws about these things and for what reasons you are allowed to refuse to allow them ad space.

I don't blame Blade. I doubt Blade is running their ads on CREDIT, but as long as they pay their bill... they can tease the product for as long as they like before actually manufacturing it. Heck, now-a-days movies start advertising before they shoot their fist scene.
 
J.Davey said:
I'm surprised a fork, spoon, and corkscrew don't fold out of the handle. Oh sh*t! I probably just gave them an idea for their next monstrosity!
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Instead of a classic pikal design, a picnical! :)
 
There's an old country number that goes, "Money talks... but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk..."

You can buy an add, but unless you're product can sing and dance, you're company ain't never gonna walk much less run.



It's not unusual for companies to take out ads and for magazines to sell ads for products that don't yet exist. Ad space has got to be booked six or eight months in advance, especially if you want premium placement. The press deadline is probably at least sixty days before printing. And graphic design takes time. So, basically, you have to start producing an ad four to six months before you want it to hit the news stands. So, if you are planning to introduce a product in June, for example, you have to book ad space back in September or October and begin ad design in January, even if the product doesn't really exist until April or May. So, I wouldn't blame the magazines. I'm sure that the contracts for these ads were booked back in September or October of 2003.
 
Heck, now-a-days movies start advertising before they shoot their fist scene.
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I have a friend who produces movie trailers for a living. He tells me that they usually start working on the trailer before the movie starts shooting
 
Nooooooo! How did I get dragged into a Dark Ops thread?!?

C'mon STR, for the reasons Gollnick points out, Blade Mag isn't obliged to check out the merchandise before they run an ad. Maybe if Dark Ops was advertising a perpetual motion machine, but they're advertising knives! Yes, DO's ad's are stupid, but knife advertising in general is kind of dumb (as is car advertising, clothing advertising, beer advertising, etc, etc). The blame or credit for the knives (or lack thereof), lies completely and entirely on DO's doorstep.
 
I disagree. With this particular company it is blatantly obvious they are a fake. No 'checking out' is needed. It is obvious to anyone that has been looking at them.

How many months do they have to run before people realize they are a fraud?
 
Whats the matter?

Dont you have your glasses?
pictures are in the last post.


Man, they are beautiful,
objects de Deanimation,
oh the muted spatter.....sublime
 
Gollnick said:
It's not unusual for companies to take out ads and for magazines to sell ads for products that don't yet exist. Ad space has got to be booked six or eight months in advance, especially if you want premium placement. The press deadline is probably at least sixty days before printing. And graphic design takes time. So, basically, you have to start producing an ad four to six months before you want it to hit the news stands. So, if you are planning to introduce a product in June, for example, you have to book ad space back in September or October and begin ad design in January, even if the product doesn't really exist until April or May. So, I wouldn't blame the magazines. I'm sure that the contracts for these ads were booked back in September or October of 2003.
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I'm sorry man. This might have been true at one time, but not anymore. I work in printing (prepress tech) and my girlfriend in magazine publishing. With PDF file transfers by FTP, electronic imposition and computer-to-plate systems in existance now printed materials can go from idea to a palette in the back of a truck in a surprising amount of time. (Man, could I tell you some stories about software packaging too.) Thursday morning a graphic artist in Cleavland can email an ad to a magazine publishing company in LA and Friday afternoon the editor could be in a pressroom tweaking color on printed sheets on press. DO is probably under contract for so many month's issues so the space is reserved, but their "contract status" probably earns them the 'privlidge' of turning their revised art in pretty darn close to deadline.

Magazine layouts are frequently changed in the final days before press and 'signatures' are added or subtracted and pagination reflowed (Ever see a story that was supposed to continue "jump" to a page in the back of the mag but when you turned to that page the ending wasn't there?) depending on what advertisers wanted in or out at the last minute. It ticks off the production people but they do it. Technology helps.

Your point is still well taken. I just thought you could use an update. ;)
 
yeah this has kinda peetered out someone get back to the computer and report in!
 
I guess they're sleeping off all that free beer. :)

Dark Ops: "We were gonna have some knives to show this time - I swear! But we filled up all the cases with free beer and there was no room left for knives."
 
They don't say which day at 3:30. Whichever day you show up, they'll say it was one of the others...

Do you suppose the website is actually run by Russian mafia, and it coincides with the release of DarkOps IPO stock?

-Bob
 
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