When you go to a manufacturer's site you see the "list price" -- you know, the price that you see on the price tag next to the "discount price" and you are overcome with excitement at how lucky you are to have the opportunity to save so much money -- if you've just stepped off your flying saucer on your first visit to Planet Earth?
Manufacturers' sites are good for deciding what products you're interested in -- then you can run a web search on that product to find out how much it costs, as a rule. You can't do that with Spyderco knives, though, because Spyderco forbids their dealers to post prices on the web. Spyderco is afraid if real prices were posted on the web aliens would find out what the phrase "list price" means so soon after they step off their flying saucers nobody would have a chance to cheat them, so you have to run a web search to find dealers and then email them to find out what prices they charge. If that's too much trouble you can forget about Spyderco knives and look at other brands.
-Cougar Allen :{)
[This message has been edited by Cougar Allen (edited 09 July 1999).]