How does that junk knife TV show do it?

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Even if those abominations were made of Reynolds Wrap and electrical tape, howinhell do they sell em for 117 knives for $99.95 (or wotever?)

The metal has to be MINED. SOME slave labor has to PUNCH em out, put em IN A BOX, drive the crate to the BOAT, put it ON the boat, SAIL the boat to here, DUMP the crate on a dock, PAY a truck driver to take the crate from the dock to the warehouse full of illegal aliens, call UPS and PAY to ship the junk.

For a dollar a knife or so?

AFTER buying TV time to con the geeks.

This has me stumped. I ....KNOW.....they're crap, but even CRAP costs something to flush.

:confused:

and I just forgot......cut trees, make paper, print paper, use ink, put IN box and THEN advertise it.
 
Yes, but when a large chuck of the crap only cost .35 each out of China and maybe a $1 for the bigger pieces, still talking $50 cost and then at @ $100 for the set, good money made, We can't make that good a % and we sell the good stuff! :) Paul
 
Originally posted by TDE
Yes, but when a large chuck of the crap only cost .35 each out of China and maybe a $1 for the bigger pieces, still talking $50 cost and then at @ $100 for the set, good money made, We can't make that good a % and we sell the good stuff! :) Paul
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.35 cents? That seems way high to me. I haver heard from a few importers that product like Frost folders sell for .06 cents or less per unit in bulk.

Drew
 
I know of a wholesaler that sales a knife exactly like the little S&W tanto neck knife for 1.20ea or 1.00ea when bought in unit's of 12 and like .75 if bought in lots of 100. Now what HSN does is they go in and buy pallet loads of thousands of each type of knife so thier cost may only be anywhere from a dollar or 2 for one of the big bowies to as little as .05 for one of the smaller knives. Also they do big buisness with Frost and they probably buy 100,000.00 or more worth of product at a time so that gives them the edge over the guy buying from frost directly at 100.00 worth of stuff at a time. If you call and ask frost cutlery for a catalog they usually send a price list with the "wholesale" prices that you get if you buy more than 4 item's that catalog will open you eyes at just how much one of those folders can cost from a distributor. The cool thing to do is use a simple formula and take the price from the wholesaler and devide by 1/2, then figure the same for the importer, and the same for the manufacturer. So the knife at the wholesaler costs a buck thats .50 from the importer then it's .25 from the manufacturer then it only costs them about .17 cents to make. Thats just rough estimates I useta have a chart that showed average markup percentages from each link in the chain which were I think sometimes larger than I've used but it's an easier way to figure it. If I'm wrong about this someone please point it out, it's been aloooooooong time since I did the research on this topic.
 
it is a financial advantage called using "economies of Scale"-the more you put out, the lower per unit cost there is.
Man, college is good for something..--Joe
 
WOW.

they must be truly worth less than shit. at least you can fertilize plants with shit.

sheesh.
 
I just recently bought an item from ebay which demonstrates how incredibly cheaply stuff can be made in China. (Probably by making 5 year old kids work 20 hours a day and paying them 5 cents a week or something like that.)

Anyway, this consisted of a small folding knife with a blade, a corkscrew, flat and phillips screwdriver, can opener and bottle opener. Sort of a very very poor mans SAK. As well as that there was a cheap imitation of a Leatherman Micra and a nylon pouch for the "Micra" and all this came packed very nicely in foam in a nice tin. This whole package cost just $15. Yep, fifteen Australian bucks!

I bought it mainly because I was curious about what you'd get for $15

I'm not game to use the thing, it looks like it would break if you tried to actually do anything with it. The interesting part was when I decided to sharpen the blade on my Sharpmaker. It was basically a butter knife when I got it out of the box. Each side of the knife had been "sharpened" at a strange angle and the two sides were a different angle. Weird!

Anyway after much grinding away I finally got an edge on it but I suspect it won't last long if I actually try to cut anything with it. The blade has "Stainless Steel" stamped on it but I suspect they forgot the hardening process.
 
Actually it's .40cents a day for 12hour shifts, and alot of men are standing in line for these jobs from what I hear.
 
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