Impulse buys? Who's guilty?

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I usually spend considerable time online looking at pics, searching reviews, specs and this forum of course, before I purchase a knife. And even after all that, it usually takes me 3 or 4 days of humming and hawing before I finally pull the trigger on something new.

Today, I did something totally out of my norm and bought a new Cold Steel Warcraft Tanto on fleabay for a pretty good price. I generally don't shop on Ebay, I generally don't have an overwhelming fondness for tanto blades, and I generally don't buy Cold Steel knives. Literally in the span of 2 minutes, I went from not even thinking about Cold Steel, to buying one.

I guess I need some validation here......who else has bought something with limited-to-no forethought, and what did you buy?
 
I don't think an impulse Cold Steel buy can go wrong, but maybe I don't know their offerings as well as others. That said, I bought a CRKT Batum on an impulse and discovered I don't like finger coils or frame locks, and I bought a Stedemon ZKC-BP02 and discovered I should have avoided that impulse..
 
It’s fine, happens to the best of us. I bought a Cold Steel axe that I objectively don’t need, lol.

As long as it doesn’t happen too often, I wouldn’t worry about it.
 
do all the time. rarely let down though.
 
I impulses bought three of these a bit ago for my sons and I go beat up and by golly……pretty tough !
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Cold Steel Special Projects (as they used to be called) are my tipsy Amazon junk food impulse buys.

I think I have at least 5 tomahawks purchased under various quantities of bourbon. None have I regretted. All have been worth the price of admission.

Case in point, I bought a CS Spontoon. The curved tear drop style to compliment my diamond head one (also a drunk buy). I, in my what I thought, rational mind thought the diamond point would help me on my axe throwing for competition. I have always thrown point first (axe hitting at about 15 degrees instead of 90) for effect, but in a game having maximum cutting area tends to score better.

The diamond Spontoon did help, but I kinda grew to love the sheer martial ferocity of the design. I kinda wanted a claw shaped version to go with it.

A random Amazon algorithm suggestion a few months later (last night), had me hitting the Buy Now button. I expect my prize here Monday.

Same with my automatic knives. Got an itch, scratched it with a Microtech. Wash, rinse, repeat 4 times. Looking to add another in the coming weeks for vacation carry. You know, the one I bought 3 weeks ago isn't quite perfect. Time to invent a new reason to dropp 3 bills on another otf, right;)
 
So far I have never returned or cancelled an impulse purchase.
They are usually more awkward or expensive than usual. I would not have bought them without an impulse that took over my Cartesian brain. Or without a few drinks too many.

Actually I often like them more than my carefully thought about pieces!


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Steely_Gunz said:
Cold Steel Special Projects (as they used to be called) are my tipsy Amazon junk food impulse buys.

I think I have at least 5 tomahawks purchased under various quantities of bourbon. None have I regretted. All have been worth the price of admission.

Case in point, I bought a CS Spontoon. The curved tear drop style to compliment my diamond head one (also a drunk buy). I, in my what I thought, rational mind thought the diamond point would help me on my axe throwing for competition. I have always thrown point first (axe hitting at about 15 degrees instead of 90) for effect, but in a game having maximum cutting area tends to score better.

The diamond Spontoon did help, but I kinda grew to love the sheer martial ferocity of the design. I kinda wanted a claw shaped version to go with it.

A random Amazon algorithm suggestion a few months later (last night), had me hitting the Buy Now button. I expect my prize here Monday.

Same with my automatic knives. Got an itch, scratched it with a Microtech. Wash, rinse, repeat 4 times. Looking to add another in the coming weeks for vacation carry. You know, the one I bought 3 weeks ago isn't quite perfect. Time to invent a new reason to dropp 3 bills on another otf, right;)
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Man, the CS Norse Hawk looks pretty cool.
 
Impulse bought myself a Cold Steel Finn Wolf. Was not disappointed. But then I also impulse bought SOG Trident and paid the price.
 
come on admit it guys!
obviously casual knife browsing
that ends up with a buy is near premeditated.
on a look out hoping to find something.
such purchases are the fatal result of
knowingly undergoing sessions of
self hypnosis which triggers buying.

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impulse buying would be something explicitly random and entirely unplanned.
like going to a yard sale and running through box loads of trashed items;
hoping to find any knife just to justify rummaging dusty worned pre loved items. so why would anyone buy
a used knife that have seen better days ?
hard to explain buying used knives of
this nature.except that its instinctively
compulsive
garage sale
 
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Steely_Gunz said:
Cold Steel Special Projects (as they used to be called) are my tipsy Amazon junk food impulse buys.

I think I have at least 5 tomahawks purchased under various quantities of bourbon. None have I regretted. All have been worth the price of admission.

Ya I have a heap of C.S. Machetes, some have never been used. Some turned out to be pretty cool units
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FYI this thread made me impulse buy another Cold Steel shovel.

I went camping for three days last week and used the one I already have for all sorts of things.

Hacking at protruding roots that were around my tent.
Cut a few branches to clear an area by my camp.
Dug a hole to make a fire pit.
Scraped fallen debris using the shovel as a impromptu rake.
Picked up dog crap and flung it.
Lastly, stuck it into the ground in front of my camp chair to show off a bit.

All that utility, and this thread, made me realize how much I like it. So now…one more is on the way!
 
Ha, my last halfway decent impulse buy was also a tanto, a used TOPS CAT off the sales forum here several years ago. It's got the ergonomics of a brick, and the sheath retention is not great. I've got big plans for it yet, but right now it sits in a box waiting for a resupply of round tuits.

I also tend to scoop up interesting used kitchen knives and beat-up slipjoints from thrift stores- they mostly keep the Cat company for now.
 
I‘m guilty of doing it WAY too much. I guess it’s kinda comforting that I have some company in this “bad habit”. Many of mine are duplicates because: “why not?”. Most stay in the collection for some interminable amount of time. And a few go right back on the market….at a loss of course. Certainly there could be far worse habits…..and I’m too old to bother changing this one. And, every once in a while, I come across a true grail. So WTH, I guess it’s worth it. 😉
 
I put an Alox Electrician on my Christmas list, because my wife has a crush on Macguyver, and by extension somehow, on SAKs. It's been in my pocket every work day for the past three years.

A Mini-CQC-7 with a bonus from work. I like it, but I can't convince myself to carry it.

This thing.

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I like Sheepsfoot blades, I wanted something high speed/low drag, and I had a gift card for Jeff Bezos' Online Emporium.
 
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