Emerson Christmas Lottery Recap

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Ernest Emerson

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Dear Members,

Something very interesting happened over the weekend. We had the annual Emerson Christmas lottery.

It was a huge success and featured some really great knives.

There were over 700 individuals who entered. Of that number there were many who were members of the Bladeforums community. In that group were several individuals who were some of the most strident anti-Emerson group in this forum.

In fact a couple of those were ones who had loudly and proudly proclaimed their dislike of Emerson Knives, and myself, claiming that they would never ever buy anything from Emerson ever again. This is a little puzzling and even amusing to me.

I guess convictions with some people only go so far, or are rather adaptable to suit their needs. Wait, I guess that wouldn't really be a conviction then would it. I'm not kidding, these were some of the nastiest and most vocal of the lot. I'm more than a little surprised.

To all from the Bladeforums who participated, I say thank you. To those in the lottery that dislike us so much, I will only say, thank you also for participating.

Merry Christmas,

Ernest R. Emerson
 
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gooeytek said:
Everybody's got a price. Looks like some of them are worth a free knife?
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If I'm not mistaken, lotteries from knifemakers aren't giveaways - winners still have to pay for the knife, but they pay it at the knifemakers' price as opposed to the inflated dealer or secondary market price.

Anyhow, regarding the haters and whatnot. The criticism has been mostly directed at the production, rather than the custom knives. Satisfaction for the custom knives is almost unanimous, while the same can't be said for the production ones.
 
As newbie to Emerson knives I kind of understand why these "strident anti-Emerson" folks are that way and yet still buy your knives.. it is your lack of quality control and your unwillingness to make improvements and instead you make excuses. In the end we still buy the knives and you still make money. It is the design we love.

But I guess you already know all this and I am sure you will not listen to me.. But I do wish you would make improvments on the fit and finish. I bought 5 Emersons in the past 2 weeks and all have problems with blade play unless the pivot screw is tightenend down so tight the blade has a lot of drag.

You see i also bought several Benchmade Emersons in the last two weeks. And none of those have that problem. Also the back spacer is nicley cut and the liners polished. Why can't you just make these changes? It certainly was possible then.
 
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I would say the reason is the lottery knives cost about $650 and they can resell them for twice that.

If Marfione was doing an Emerson-style lottery I wouldn't put my name in because I think he is a not so nice person. Apparently some folks don't draw the line.
 
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