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Some background:
(1) a post in the kitchen knives forum has put me on a quest to obtain some kitchen knives made by Mora of Sweden. I have been trying without much success to locate a retailer of Mora kitchen knives in the USA.
(2) another forum I read devoted to bullet casting has a history of group buys for custom designed and manufactured bullet molds. Somebody will design a mold, arrange for it to be manufactured and then take the lead on arranging for other members to buy duplicates of that mold at the same time, allowing the maker to turn them out in one big batch.
So here's the question: can a lowly Gold member like me put together a group buy for a particular item (like a couple of models of Mora kitchen knives) and sell them to interested members at cost + shipping? I'm asking about the idea of a group buy in case it turns out I have to buy from a distributor and must buy a case of knives instead of just the 2 or 3 I want. Would that be seen as being a dealer without the membership? Would I have to post them to the Exchange one at a time to avoid the technicality of being a dealer without the appropriate membership?
Of course, Spark could just decide to add them to the 1SKS site and make all this moot!
(1) a post in the kitchen knives forum has put me on a quest to obtain some kitchen knives made by Mora of Sweden. I have been trying without much success to locate a retailer of Mora kitchen knives in the USA.
(2) another forum I read devoted to bullet casting has a history of group buys for custom designed and manufactured bullet molds. Somebody will design a mold, arrange for it to be manufactured and then take the lead on arranging for other members to buy duplicates of that mold at the same time, allowing the maker to turn them out in one big batch.
So here's the question: can a lowly Gold member like me put together a group buy for a particular item (like a couple of models of Mora kitchen knives) and sell them to interested members at cost + shipping? I'm asking about the idea of a group buy in case it turns out I have to buy from a distributor and must buy a case of knives instead of just the 2 or 3 I want. Would that be seen as being a dealer without the membership? Would I have to post them to the Exchange one at a time to avoid the technicality of being a dealer without the appropriate membership?
Of course, Spark could just decide to add them to the 1SKS site and make all this moot!
