I guess he wasn't a knife person

silenthunterstudios

silenthunterstudios

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I am currently looking for a Schrade 108ot, and was doing some searches on scam Bay. Came across a 108ot that someone was selling, and it had belonged to their grandfather. It was a great price, but I just felt funny buying it. If it was my grandfathers, I would have held onto it, even if I didn't carry knives (maybe its easier to say that than do it). I won't post the link, the knife is in great shape, but I just feel funny bidding on it, and after three times trying to bid, I don't think I'm going to. I don't know, maybe I shouldn't even react, but this just rubs me raw. I don't think gifts should be given with strings attached, but if my grandfather left me something he used everyday, I don't think I could get rid of it. Maybe I'm just overreacting.
 
I am sure you will take care of it if you buy it. Some people do not place any sentiment with knives, tools, cars..Etc. Some people do place a value on an object. If it is for sale they do not. JMO :(
 
Yes, I would agree as well. To some, it's just more stuff that "accumulates". I have a co-worker who just did that. He had a couple of fixed blades, a Camillus, and Ka-Bar from around war time. His father passed away and he was going to get rid of them in a garage sale. He asked me to look these up on ebay to see if they were worth anything. They were on ebay at about $15 US each. These had a bit of rust one them, but easily removed, so I offered to buy them - for me, I felt that who ever bought them, would just use them as beaters without a though for the memories they held. For him, these had zero sentimental value. I re-furbished them and even offered to "give" them back, but he refused. He was, however, very happy that they found a good home ;) For, despite how many folders I have, I don't think I would sell them, give them away maybe later, but for now, I'm enjoyng them too much.

- gord
 
I definitely wouldn't lose track of my grandfather's knife either. But go ahead and buy it, use it, and pass it on to your grandkids. Your grandkids may save it as an important keepsake, or they may unload it on eBay. Never know...

-Bob
 
Knives are one of those things that truly are cherished items when handed down through your family. I think that it's because these are tools that my dad and grandfather used every day. By simply wrapping my hand around that 61OT that my dad carried, I am instantly re-connected to him, even though he is no longer alive, because he held and used this knife almost everyday that he had it in his possession.

When I am buying a pocketknife for daily use (and abuse), I prefer used ones. In doing so, I feel as though I'm continuing the life-line of that knife.

If this person doesn't recognize the treasure that he holds, SHAME ON HIM. The knife deserves to have life breathed back into it.
 
What if your grandfather gave you his eletric curling iron from 1950 that he used everyday. Still feel the same way?
 
With all due respect - it is his thing, from his family, not from mime. His values are really none of my business.

"SHAME ON HIM." Wow, he is clearly a no good piece of trash?????? You have no right to impose your values on someone else!

That said, I agree that it is a shame that he does not recognize the values that most of us hold dear.
 
I say bid on it...

Just because you won't bid on it, it doesn't mean that someone else won't either. I'm sure it will mean more to you than it does to the seller, and you will at least take care of it.

Glenn
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I don't think gifts should be given with strings attached, but if my grandfather left me something he used everyday, I don't think I could get rid of it. Maybe I'm just overreacting.
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I share your sentiments, but that's assuming that the "grandfather" story is for real, and not some kind of salesman spiel to make it look like he was just an average joe, selling on Ebay for the first time, instead of somebody doing this full-time. These types of stories can also provide an alibi if the delivered product is in poorer condition than represented ("Hey, I don't know anything about knives, it was my grandfather's, my wife's cousin told me this is what make and model it is....")
 
Well, the guy is definitely a no good POS that should be beaten with a curling iron :D :p. I'm just talking about the knife, that's all.

Dave, my grandfather didn't go that way ;)
 
You shouldn't hesistate to buy it based on that. It may be one of many knives his grandfather had.
 
The guy isn't a knife guy,its that simple.

My friend gave me the knife his Dad carried in WWII,says he fought in the Ardan forsest with the knife. I said you keep it! He said I got a ton of his stuff I have no use for it. To him its just an old knife, to me its a cool old knife.
 
My grandfather passed away last year :( and I inherited his hunting knife. It isn't worth anything to a collector (5¼" blade +10½" overall, 440 "Special" Stainless and "Made in Taiwan"; sharpened to scary sharp!) yet that knife is never leaving my collection - that is, until it's time to pass it on. I don't intend to let it just sit on a shelf either. It's going to be a user, mostly for camping and yard work.

Unfortunately, the factory sheath is as cheap as it gets - with no real way of securing the knife to the sheath itself. I've replaced it temporarily with a different sheath I had laying around, but intend to upgrade it overall someday.
 
Some people just want to forget and at times the pain is so bad that the only way to effectively do that is to get rid of all that reminds them of what they don't want to think about. Out of sight out of mind so to speak.

It is a coping thing I think.
 
How do you know the guy isn't dying and he's trying to sell all of his life possessions in order to afford a heart transplant? You don't.

Refusing to buy something because you don't think it should be sold doesn't help in the slightest. It just means that he will get less on ebay than he would have. Who knows, maybe he'll resent his grandfather for giving him a worthless bobble (instead of the antique vase that his sister got). Simply because noone wanted to buy his knife in order to 'help him'...

We could draw tons of different possible scenarios. Fact is: He has his reasons for selling this inanimate object. You should have your reasons for buying this inanimate object. Don't let the two mix.

Mark
 
It amazes me what I see for sale ( or already in the trash) at estate and house sales - family pictures; named christening spoons; family Bibles with birth and death records handwritten inside; military medals; citizenship papers; etc. I suppose it never occurs to such folks as those who sell (or trash) such items that if family heirlooms are just "things" to them, they may have more meaning to future generations of the family.
 
Family heirlooms are very important for me, I have knives that belonged to my great-grandfather. My family's "starter" knife (the first knife for each boy) has been with us for four generations, and will be the first knife my son uses and hopefully my grandkids.

I remember when my best friends grandfather died, great man, great outdoorsman. He tought us a lot about hunting, camping and even more about how to be good guys. When he started to get ill, he told us that he didn't want his things to end up in an attic gathering dust. He wanted his guns and knives to keep hunting and walking through the mountains. He had a lot of guns, he was an army major, so he selected a few and told us to sell the rest after he was gone. My friend kept the guns, but he gave me his grandfather's bow, because he can't shoot it (he is left handed) and he knew I would take good care of it and keep it hunting ans his grandad wanted.

I can't think of any situation that could make me sell one of the knives that belonged to my grandfather, my grand-uncle or any other of my deceased relatives. But there are some people that can't understand the sentimental value you can place on something they don't find even remotely attractive.
 
The facts are that a person is selling something. Who cares what they are selling for. Those electrical impulses are meaningless. We all value different things. Don't insert your values, assumptions, or beliefs into anything. See it for what it is....this is the truth unclouded by the thoughts of those seeing. The watcher just watches, what he sees is the truth, not what he thinks.

You'll like what I have in the trade forums. Let's see what you think of me....

"Will trade new rifle for knife"

cliff
 
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