The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Normally I do. We live in the northwoods and shipping here is always a bit of an issue. My wife uses prime like most use walmart, so I thought I would give it a go. Anyway. I think all is well, the knife looks great, I was just curious if any have shown up on the market yet.
I've order around 47 Cold Steel products products from Amazon. No real problems. I recieved a Cold Steel recon micro that came dull and will NOT take an edge. I firmly believe it's NOT a fake. Just a "Friday Night Knife." Meaning it got a shit heat treat because some dude half -assed it to hurry up and drink beers with his buddies. I don't hold that against CS. I own at last count (I have no life lol) 56 CS products. That's the only tool I've had a problem with.
Wait. You assembled it, and then noticed the puke?
Well cold steel makes a lot of products in a lot of price ranges. With cold steel I don't really know where the mindset with it is but they fake everything from the small push daggers to ti-lites, Recon series fixed blade and even the newer voyager series stuff. They used to do fakes of the san mai high end folders but they were very easy to spot in general. But it would seem that the original price of the product whether its high or low doesn't matter. Its more about "was there any meat left on the bone". In other words even if its a $30 knife if someone can still make money counterfeiting it and selling it for $15 someone will do it.
I saw a counterfeit Kershaw OSO Sweet on the Bay for like $8. That's only a $16-20 knife to begin with!
I wouldn't call them expensive they are in about the same price point as Kershaw and CRKT. Not cheap but not what I would label expensive either.
I really don't get how this is confusing to people consider Supply & Demand. More people want a cheap knife than are looking for quality knife it makes more sense to clone/counterfiet cheaper products becuase it is about quantity. You stand to profit more off of many small gains than a few large gains.
I e-mailed Amazon and called them on the second day of when he started selling on Ebay. They said the would look into it. They could care less. He was still there a week later selling his counterfeit stuff. I called them again and they told me the same crap they fed me the first time. They don't care anymore, as long as they get their cut.
Yea that sounds about right a lot of big companies are like that especially if no one else is complaining. I also guess it's not too crazy too believe someone could of switched your box out with a fake. Or the seller honestly doesn't know. Either way I hope it gets sorted out
I am embarrassed to say that I know a few people that have switched new for used on Amazon and sent it back. Unfortunately I think this happens alot so you have to be careful and check everything you get from them.
I'm glad we had this discussion because up until now I never stopped to think something like that could happen.. well amazons been good to me so far but I will definitely pay more attention if I order from them again. Now I understand why people say spend the extra money for a credible vendor.. but still if u know what to look for and get something amazon backed you can always return it but I could've got a used knife back in the day and never even realized it
There are a multitude of video's on YouTube on how to differentiate between real & clones. I learned a tremendous amount of info on Fakes, models with problems. I never buy a knife without listening to a few of my favorite reviewers. I just bought a knife from a member of BF. I checked if he was okay an all checked out. It was a ZT and the price was too good. I paid him what he asked. I received the knife and started scrutinizing it with my diamond loupe and everything checked out. This paranoia stems from all the of the switcharoo going on. It may have been fake and he may not of known. Always be wary and don't buy from people that don't take returns. If you have to make sure they authenticate the knife for you in an e-mail that way you won't have trouble with Ebay or PayPal. I learned all this from getting screwed a few times.
