Gold Class Bugout

Holy yikes is that thing expensive! I would have to have a lot more money -- a whole lot more -- to make spending $850.00 on a 2.5oz object seem like a good idea.

But if I did...

Sure. Why not? A tiny object that serves only two purposes in life, cutting things and impressing collectors, is still fun if you like that sort of thing. ;)

But I'd probably spend the $480.00 that Cold Steel is asking for a 5-Max, instead, because I think that's way more neat-o, and that's probably just as wacky a purchase in someone else's eyes. (Speaking of which, I can feel my wife rolling her eyes as I type this...)

All of those thing said: never mind what anyone else thinks. If it suits your fancy and the cost is not a problem, live your life and be happy. :)
 
no and no.

ive never been impressed by the gold class benchmade stuff. way too pricey for what ya get...that aside...... the standard benchmade black, blue red whatever they call their classes anymore ive felt for a long time....... cost too much and delivered too little.
 
The saying is "a fool and his money are soon parted".

But this hobby isn't about being a fool. It's about what you like and are willing to spend your money on. Then again, if the baby needs diapers and you get this instead...
 
The knife hobby is like several others which are consumption based. Pricing is what the market will bear and often loses any relationship to function. Like most around here I have more (excluding kitchen) knives than I could possibly need or use. There is fun in buying and owning. Benchmade as a business is amazing. Their products have achieved Veblen goods status. As prices rise demand increases instead of decreases. It's like Rolex where a mechanical watch in stainless steel goes for $12k while there are any number of functionally identical mechanical watches for less than a tenth of the price, not to mention quartz watches for a pittance which keep better time and don't need expensive maintenance every few years. Like Benchmade, Rolex is price controlled.
 
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jbmonkey said:
no and no.

ive never been impressed by the gold class benchmade stuff. way too pricey for what ya get...that aside...... the standard benchmade black, blue red whatever they call their classes anymore ive felt for a long time....... cost too much and delivered too little.
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This.
I have a couple of Benchmades. But I bought them about 15 years ago before they applied the butterfly tax and took the knives out of my price bracket.
 
knarfeng said:
This.
I have a couple of Benchmades. But I bought them about 15 years ago before they applied the butterfly tax and took the knives out of my price bracket.
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I paid $75 for my 710, a couple decades ago. The Mini-Rukus was about double that, and my Grippies were around $50-60 if I recall.
 
Buy it if you like it and can afford it. A hobby is not about what others think it’s about what you think.
On the other hand if you are buying it for any other reason spend your money on a secondary market custom and you’ll get something much better for your money.
 
A lot of people here wont flinch to spend 850 dollars on a single folding knife. But I suppose there's a line somewhere that should be drawn at a "gold class bugout"
I'd be happier spending the same amount of money on a fist-load of Swiss army knives but thats just me
 
ShaiHulud said:
A lot of people here wont flinch to spend 850 dollars on a single folding knife. But I suppose there's a line somewhere that should be drawn at a "gold class bugout"
I'd be happier spending the same amount of money on a fist-load of Swiss army knives but thats just me
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I just dont believe they could possibly make a bugout equivalent to 1.5x sebenzas. The original bugout has been overpriced since release, this is just absurd. Other knives in the 800 or 900 dollar price range can still be absurd, but I doubt anything is Bugout level.
 
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