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[Chameleonbear]

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(He picks up the Brass back)............... this is amazing, how much?

Me, that goes for around $2500. bucks,

Him, "I'll take it!"

Let it be known, ive never sold a knife for that kind of money that easily. Frankly, I couldnt do it. As much as I could use the money I told him I didnt think that was the best purchase for him and gave him my reasons. Afterwards, he agreed and he placed a order for a more elaborate Tradewater with a firesteel in the sheath.
Cant believe I just talked a willing guy out of paying me well over a month and a halves worth of income, but just couldnt of done it and felt right about it. His boy is only 15.

Call me crazy!

Would you really want the kid's dad to buy it for him? No offense to the kid, but a knife like that is just too much knife. I don't fault you at all man. It isn't that you're being a shitty businessman, it's cultivating a future sale.

Not crazy at all, after all the effort you put into that thing id make sure, if it even left your side, it went to someone you know would cherish it and understand its value.

This! The BBB will eventually sell to someone who will appreciate it and cherish it.

oooh, nice move.
I totally respect that.
besides, who doesn't need a Yumama anyway? ;-)

Once I get my G.B.o.S. (that is my Giant Box of Sexiness) from Todd, I'll have to start saving up for a Yumama... To match the rest of the family.

 

[worldwood]

lol, hey WW, wanna buy a brass back! Haha! :thumbup:

If it comes with a couch, or 2 trees that i can hang from... Im in LMAO.... Ill work for food and beer as well... Me and Murph can be brothers HAHAHA

DA-DA ???

 

[TBL]

I think you would be crazy if you did sell it to him. Especially knowing it is going to a be given to a kid who is not likely to appreciate it.

I second this notion!

however, I would of then tried to talk him into an M-18 / Tradewater piggyback set

 

[granitestateofmind]

Cant believe I just talked a willing guy out of paying me well over a month and a halves worth of income, but just couldnt of done it and felt right about it. His boy is only 15.

Call me crazy!

It's not crazy at all man. You did the right thing. No way a 15 year old needs a knife like that.

Dubz is right on. I'd say that you're a great businessman and, most importantly salesman.....because you have a custom order that will really suit the customer...and you can still sell the brassback to someone who will appreciate it. Unless you decide to keep it. Which,,,,I sure wouldn't blame you. Sometimes it's nice to keep a little of your craft for yourself.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

So, just had a interesting evening. Got to tell you about it. Sitting here at 9:30 on a week night. Im laying in the middle of our living room painting my wifes toenails. (Go ahead and make fun guys, I dont care, do it all the time) Anyway, the doorbell rings, I figure its my old buddy Ralph. So I yell, "come in!" Who walks in you ask? The local mortician. Now, granted, let it be known I live on a small lake, my house is one of the smallest on it, and he lives across from me in a very nice place. "Very if you know what I mean" Anyway. Somebody at a recent funeral told him what I do in my shop that he can see from his house, apparently, he has a young son that just finished some survival challenge and he wanted to reward him with a handmade knife. He asked me what I had for sale right now, tonight. Here's how the conversation went.

Him, I so proud of my son, I want to reward him, he loves knives. What do you have?

Me, everything I have here is sold but these 2 M18s and this Brass Back.

(He picks up the Brass back)............... this is amazing, how much?

Me, that goes for around $2500. bucks,

Him, "I'll take it!"

Let it be known, ive never sold a knife for that kind of money that easily. Frankly, I couldnt do it. As much as I could use the money I told him I didnt think that was the best purchase for him and gave him my reasons. Afterwards, he agreed and he placed a order for a more elaborate Tradewater with a firesteel in the sheath.
Cant believe I just talked a willing guy out of paying me well over a month and a halves worth of income, but just couldnt of done it and felt right about it. His boy is only 15.

Call me crazy!

You are NOT a salesman. A salesman simply gets the most he/she can at the moment and doesn't give a hoot about the future.

No, what I'd call you is a RESPONSIBLE businessman.

What you ended up with is a a new customer who is going to REMEMBER that you took the time to figure out what would really be appropriate for his son, in that situation. He will end up telling MORE people about what you did with/for him than you will, in the long run. You laid a brick in the foundation of your REPUTATION as a solid, caring, responsible businessman. The word will get out because a mortician sees everybody eventually. Some of them are even still talking.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Oh, I see GSoM said something similar. Should read all the way to the end. Oh, well. I STILL mean it.

 

[bigghoss]

Exactly, I'm 16 and can't even begain to imagine having anything even remotely as nice as that brass back, I'm even almost afraid to buy 200 dollar knife for fear of something happening, and the fact that if I want a new price of gear I have to come up with the money myself, there's nothing that a teenager would do that would EVER require a knife like that

Hell, I'm 30 and I have a hard time spending $200 on one knife. My most expensive so far was $99 shipped. But sooner or later I'll drop some coin on something nice.

 

[TBL]

10 years ago I dropped $250 retail in store for;

I used to use it at work for 2 years before the nazi's told me I couldn't use it on duty anymore. Now that I know more about knives and how to use them I dislike it for general use due to the retarded jimping that is everywhere. The only thing it has going for it is that the hands don't slip while wet or bloody.....

edit: now that I think about it. I might have to remove that picture before it haunts JT's dreams lol!

 

[zzyzzogeton]

Oh, pfft!!!! Tried taking some knife pics just now, and my camera is acting up. Works just fine for regular shots, but it won't focus in on tang stamps. They just stay all fuzzy. The camera has never been dropped, thrown around, taken swimming by accident or anything. Tried changing the batteries on the off chance that would help. Nope. Worked just fine yesterday and tonight.....

 

[TBL]

Try using more or less light and enable or disable the auto flash. Works on my old point and shoot

 

[Murphnuge]

So, just had a interesting evening. Got to tell you about it. Sitting here at 9:30 on a week night. Im laying in the middle of our living room painting my wifes toenails. (Go ahead and make fun guys, I dont care, do it all the time) Anyway, the doorbell rings, I figure its my old buddy Ralph. So I yell, "come in!" Who walks in you ask? The local mortician. Now, granted, let it be known I live on a small lake, my house is one of the smallest on it, and he lives across from me in a very nice place. "Very if you know what I mean" Anyway. Somebody at a recent funeral told him what I do in my shop that he can see from his house

Ah, then he sees me pee.

 

[Aikiguy]

You are NOT a salesman. A salesman simply gets the most he/she can at the moment and doesn't give a hoot about the future.

No, what I'd call you is a RESPONSIBLE businessman.

Agree with Zee 1000%. The fact that you didn't take the money and run just shows that you're not in it just to make profit - you actually care about your clientele. I know being your own boss can give you fits when it comes to steady income (I've been running my own business going on 7 years now, and I still have months where it seems I'm just barely keeping afloat), so I'm sure it was very tempting just to say yes and be done with it. But, like you said, the damn morals your parents gave you seem to get in way lol. Much respect for you sir.

 

[TMHunt]

Ah, then he sees me pee.

Yeah, that was mentioned.

Agree with Zee 1000%. The fact that you didn't take the money and run just shows that you're not in it just to make profit - you actually care about your clientele. I know being your own boss can give you fits when it comes to steady income (I've been running my own business going on 7 years now, and I still have months where it seems I'm just barely keeping afloat), so I'm sure it was very tempting just to say yes and be done with it. But, like you said, the damn morals your parents gave you seem to get in way lol. Much respect for you sir.

Thank you.

 

[TBL]

You know you have not slept much when there has only been 3 posts between your last before bed and your first in the morning.

That.. or other people decided to sleep in today.

 

[gmoneyluv]

That's what I thought, and I think that's why I talked him out of it. Just figuring I'm going to make a shitty business man turning down money like that. Cash don't grow on trees around here. It just didn't feel like the right thing to do.

Lol, hope I dont starve next month. Cant eat the brass back.

I worked sales for years and I have to say you did the right thing. You've likely created a lifelong customer that not only appreciates your work and trusts you, but will also promote you to anyone he knows that's looking for a knife. If you would've let him take the Brass Back, and he later had someone point out how inappropriate it was for a 15 year-old, he would have probably felt duped. Nice to know that there are folks with integrity still around.

See, I've just always called it "exercise".....recently I was asked if I "trained with tubulars" and I said "no, I only rideOo on them." I haven't "trained" in, like, a decade.

soOo,,,,what're you training for?

That's funny, G! Got to remember to use that next time someone asks me the same tubular question. I'm training for some long terms climbing goals this late fall.

 

[mountainmist]

Hey guys, Todd said something about a knife show in Louisville, anybody know anything about that?

 

[TMHunt]

I worked sales for years and I have to say you did the right thing. You've likely created a lifelong customer that not only appreciates your work and trusts you, but will also promote you to anyone he knows that's looking for a knife. If you would've let him take the Brass Back, and he later had someone point out how inappropriate it was for a 15 year-old, he would have probably felt duped. Nice to know that there are folks with integrity still around.



That's funny, G! Got to remember to use that next time someone asks me the same tubular question. I'm training for some long terms climbing goals this late fall.

Thanks Gus

Hey guys, Todd said something about a knife show in Louisville, anybody know anything about that?

The knife makers guild hold a yearly show in Louisville every year. You have to be a member of the guild to be a exibitor, which I am not, but thought about going as a spectator this year.

 

[Tankerwolf]

Hey Murph was it you that had a Mystery ranch 3 day pack?
I'm thinking about doing the GoRuck and the only pack I have that would come even close to comfortably carrying 40+ lbs through all that crap would be a Kelty Redwing. I'm thinking that might be too big.

Good for you Todd. The right thing to do is not always the easiest.
Besides $2500 for a used knife. Come on now.

 

[GSO1962]

See, I've just always called it "exercise".....recently I was asked if I "trained with tubulars" and I said "no, I only rideOo on them." I haven't "trained" in, like, a decade.

soOo,,,,what're you training for?

"Training with tubulars" sounds vaguely obscene...or maybe it's just me...

 

[mountainmist]

Besides $2500 for a used knife. Come on now.

Now you done it! :grumpy:

Too bad, Todd. I won't be able to be there, I'm going to Louisiana that week.

Also, I edited to include my BK16 http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1196788-I-got-a-Yuma!-Review-Shootout-with-the-ESEE-4-EDIT-now-with-BK16-too!?p=13703798#post13703798