Has Great Eastern Cutlery peaked in popularity?

dundak said:
They are off my radar and I was a huge fan starting in 2006 when people were meh about them. Recently it seems they are focusing on wharncliff blades and patterns that don’t appeal to me. Last patterns I even liked were the Abilene and Dixie stockmans. This added to the outrageous secondary market gives me a hard pass.
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Same, the Dixie Stockman was the last GEC I bought…two of them actually.
 
Well, most of you are saying you have lost interest in GEC due to high prices and lack of availability….. so maybe my perception that this is ending is wrong!
 
Elgatodeacero said:
Well, most of you are saying you have lost interest in GEC due to high prices and lack of availability….. so maybe my perception that this is ending is wrong!
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I do believe things will moderate eventually, and I have a tendency of believing that I represent an average buyer which probably isn't true.
There's a school of thought that believes that this new price point means that the product can support it, but I do not believe that's true.
The floor will fall out eventually, and if my experience is typical, I believe it will be sooner rather than later.
 
As a late-bloomer in the GEC game, I do like them a lot, but don’t have enough patience or fortitude to fight any website drop/release system to like them THAT much, nor do I feel the need to pay crazy secondary markups just to have them in my collection. Obviously there are those who are willing to, but I’ll never be one of them. The examples I do have all came from right here on the exchange, and were priced what I felt was very reasonable, given the secondary market insanity.
 
Elgatodeacero said:
Well, most of you are saying you have lost interest in GEC due to high prices and lack of availability….. so maybe my perception that this is ending is wrong!
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What is a GEC knife? All the SFOs and special orders have diluted the brand to me. It's what Queen ended up doing. You saw a lot of knives made by Queen for others, but the brand itself never penetrated into the mainstream consumer market like Buck, Case, etc. Those brands have knives, patterns and certain scale materials that are iconic. GEC has not built that yet and does not seem interested in doing it.
 
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dundak said:
What is a GEC knife? All the SFOs and special orders have diluted the brand to me. It's what Queen ended up doing. You saw a lot of knives made by Queen for others, but the brand itself never penetrated into the mainstream consumer market like Buck, Case, etc. Those brands have knives, patterns and certain scale materials that are iconic. GEC has not built that yet and does not seem interested in doing it.
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GEC said they stopped doing SFOs a couple years ago.
 
dundak said:
What is a GEC knife? All the SFOs and special orders have diluted the brand to me.
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I think it's pretty obvious what a GEC knife is- I mean... just go to the website and you'll learn everything you need to know.
 
I have no idea if they've peaked in popularity but based on activity in the for sale "traditional" forum there are a lot of them out there to be had if your willing to pay the price. They seem to move pretty quickly so from that perspective I'd say their popularity remains pretty high. Last GEC I bought was in October of 2013 from Old Hundred Collectables. Huckleberry Boys Knife in smooth ivory bone. Paid $86. Still own a couple others bought prior to that. While I think GEC makes a nice quality knife, I refuse to get caught up in the hype and hysteria to buy one, let alone pay the price to obtain one.
 
Danke42 said:
Demand is crashing.

GEC #88 Yeti Ivory Acrylic, GEC #36 india Smooth Bone, GEC #36 Ebony Wood, GEC #Blood Jigged Bone

All new with tin. #88 yeti ivory acrylic trapper $225 each shipped. multiple available till gone. #36 india Smooth Bone gone shipped. #36 ebony wood gone shipped. #36 Blood Red jigged bone $210 shipped. Ppff only.
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F’n guy posts multiples of every release…FLIPPER! I swear he’s listed and sold almost 10 of those 36 pattern knives and this makes 4 of the 88’s already.
 
Jsega51 said:
F’n guy posts multiples of every release…FLIPPER! I swear he’s listed and sold almost 10 of those 36 pattern knives and this makes 4 of the 88’s already.
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Sounds more like a dealer than a flipper, but despicable either way.

On topic, based on the fact he has no problem making a profit on multiples of EVERY run, I’d say demand has not peaked, at least here.
 
A few lucky members seem to be able to get all variations of the various releases, which is impressive (maybe the bubble has burst). Others say that they are killing themselves trying to get even one and failing (maybe the bubble has not burst).
Maybe there should be an agreement between those members to only get one variant per release, in the first week of each release. :)
 
calm said:
A few lucky members seem to be able to get all variations of the various releases, which is impressive (maybe the bubble has burst). Others say that they are killing themselves trying to get even one and failing (maybe the bubble has not burst).
Maybe there should be an agreement between those members to only get one variant per release, in the first week of each release. :)
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Yeah… no… that’d never work. It’s become Pokémon-esq with some folks, and your collection isn’t complete without both genders of armchairizard.

Not to mention if it wasn’t members buying them all up, it’d be the degenerates who don’t belong to the forums.
 
Totally burst. This one took a whole 15 minutes to sell. If it's not gone in a minute the brand is played out.

GEC and CASE sell

Case back pocket in 154CM-$115 shipped Has been used and carried, has a small mark on bolsters as show in picture. Great action, slightly off center. GEC 33 conductor-$110 shipped Has been used and carried, has patina. Nice and sharp. Great action and no blade rub.
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I think demand for the newest patterns is still there at the MSRP prices. I think we are seeing a slow down with ebay sales due to new PayPal rules and perhaps more people wanting to save money due to inflation.
 
dundak said:
What is a GEC knife? All the SFOs and special orders have diluted the brand to me. It's what Queen ended up doing. You saw a lot of knives made by Queen for others, but the brand itself never penetrated into the mainstream consumer market like Buck, Case, etc. Those brands have knives, patterns and certain scale materials that are iconic. GEC has not built that yet and does not seem interested in doing it.
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I'm sorry, what? You seem to have it backwards. GEC is the brand that has a huge following, whereas the knives they've made for other brands often don't sell out until it becomes widely known that GEC made them. Proof? Those Remington bullet knives they did. Those sat on shelves for quite awhile, the reason? They didn't say GEC on them. Also, a couple of years ago, the Maher & Grosh #35 drop was overshadowed by the GEC Beer & Sausage knives. The B&S knives sold super fast, whereas the M&G knives actually sat for a bit.

So, a ton of people know "what is a GEC knife". The brand is anything but diluted.
 
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