How has the internet affected the knife business, need manufacturer input

[Lizabelle]

Hey!

I'm doing a research paper for my internal business class on "how the internet has affected the knife business." Please tell me what you can about how the internet has changed the way you do business. Details would be great!

If you prefer to not post here for any reason please email me. Thanks!! Your help is much appreciated.

 

[ghostsix]

The girl does have a good question,she just doesn`t know how to ask it,being jr.high.The question is:What is the increase in sales attributable to the net.You were selling knives before DARPA`s net from 1959.I bought them mail order along with guns.Does anyone know,or have we ,most likly,just taken all of the orders as we could get them.Thank goodness for any increase.Where did it come from?I don`t know.I can`t think of a way to now asertain the effect of the net.I`m sure that some out of work MIT grad. can come up with a formula.

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[Dennis Wright]

The question was pretty clear to me and, at 20 years old, I'd say she is a bit beyond Jr. high.

I'm not sure what you meant by the rest of your post though. I doubt that there is any formula that could be applied to the web as it keeps changing and evolving. Just like the rest of us.

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Dennis Wright
Wright Knife & Sporting Goods
(Buy a knife...confuse a liberal)
La Mesa, CA
wrightknife@ixpres.com

 

[Lizabelle]

Ghostsix, I am not in the junior high. But thank you for trying to clarify my question. However, that is not the question I was trying to ask.

I do not want to just know the increase in sales or even just the advantages; I want to know how the interenet has affected the knife business, specifically yours (Buck Knives). Plain and simple.

Liz

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[ghostsix]

OK.Liz,I just wanted to know if the question could be expanded within the parameters of your paper.

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[ghostsix]

Actually it is a question that I want to ask.Since liz won`t.Bucks were common in hardware stores in the `60`s.You don`t see them anymore.The folding hunter was on sale everywhere.You had to go to a sporting goods for a Personel,or a General.C.J. would not waste time here if the net did not sell knives.The question would be:What % of sales are net?Another question is :What loss,or shift, of sales has occurred from the gas,guns,ammo,bait and grub stores?If Liz doesn`t care,I am curious,if the figures are available.How has the net affected traditional dealer,distributer,jobber relationships,and affected distribution?With particular emphasis on the low overhead of net dealears vs. stocking dealers.If I were 50yrs.younger,I`d write the paper

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[Lizabelle]

ghost..those questions are just part of my overall question. i need to know those kinds of things as well as the negative aspects of the internet. but thank you for getting some specific questions out there. i was planning on doing that after i got the general ideas. but something happened and all of my threads got off topic and i had a big mess to deal with. thanks again.

liz

 

[ghostsix]

That is partly my fault.Most of my friends are Mil.,or LEO.My wife objected also,to my style.Civvies are not used to D.I.`s frankness.I got rid of the wife,not what I was doing.

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[brian w edginton]

G6

Wow. Are you really that sexist ?

I'm, probably, older than you and I can say that older is not, always, more sexist. Some of us continue learning.

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BrianWE
ICQ #21525343

 

[ghostsix]

Actually,more than one wife did not meet my expectations,,if that helps your question.Divorce was not fatal in spec ops.