INFLATED KNIFE PRICE MARKETING - Who is the winner?

Name names!!!
Who are you trying to protect?? Who's pulling your strings?? Who sent you??
 
I find United Cutlery's marketing pretty impressive.
I once saw a ninja slay upwards of 40 soda bottles in some backwoods hollar. After that, it was the proverbial SU&TMM!!
 
Rasco said:
I find United Cutlery's marketing pretty impressive.
I once saw a ninja slay upwards of 40 soda bottles in some backwoods hollar. After that, it was the proverbial SU&TMM!!
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Fruit ninjas?

[video=youtube;w-llZmPPNwU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-llZmPPNwU[/video]
 
mainaman said:
This will help you I think

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1261133-Busse-craze

Apparently the OP can't let go of the fact that his almost 4lb Khuk is ot going to beat a MOAB in a chop off no matter how much of a better deal it is.
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I Think,guys,it hurt your feelings way too much,in what was said in other thread discussion and i am most certainly not the one who lost all arguments there.I made a very clear and valid point....

All i have done "wrong" according you was,that i had enough balls to pointed out and also prove the fact,that there are also other knifemakers out there,that can match or even exceed any Busse product in any contest.....

Those,who are not close minded,will understand,those blindfolded fanboys ("armed to the teeth,seeking wichhunt")who do not,i couldn'nt care less....After all,it is my opinion,which you guys only reinforced as you kept pulling some nonsense arguments,because there was not much,you could say....

Please,read again,what was the original topic of that thread you have on your mind....

This thread is about marketing through inflated prices to these sort of guys,who may feel,price dictate quality.....
 
Seriousbladeno1 said:
I Think,guys,it hurt your feelings way too much,in what was said in other thread discussion and i am most certainly not the one who lost all arguments there.I made a very clear and valid point....

All i have done "wrong" according you was,that i had enough balls to pointed out and also prove the fact,that there are also other knifemakers out there,that can match or even exceed any Busse product in any contest.....

Those,who are not close minded,will understand,those blindfolded fanboys ("armed to the teeth,seeking wichhunt")who do not,i couldn'nt care less....After all,it is my opinion,which you guys only reinforced as you kept pulling some nonsense arguments,because there was not much,you could say....

Please,read again,what was the original topic of that thread you have on your mind....

This thread is about marketing through inflated prices to these sort of guys,who may feel,price dictate quality.....
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Mate, if you couldn't care less, don't ask. Sit back & watch the stupidity.
It may be a case of new clothes for the emperor, but some people like to be naked. On the other hand, tiny tweaks to HT & elemental make up can make big differences to a blade.
Just be happy with your own decisions, let other people be happy with theirs.
 
Seriousbladeno1 said:
I Think,guys,it hurt your feelings way too much,in what was said in other thread discussion and i am most certainly not the one who lost all arguments there.I made a very clear and valid point....

All i have done "wrong" according you was,that i had enough balls to pointed out and also prove the fact,that there are also other knifemakers out there,that can match or even exceed any Busse product in any contest.....

Those,who are not close minded,will understand,those blindfolded fanboys ("armed to the teeth,seeking wichhunt")who do not,i couldn'nt care less....After all,it is my opinion,which you guys only reinforced as you kept pulling some nonsense arguments,because there was not much,you could say....

Please,read again,what was the original topic of that thread you have on your mind....

This thread is about marketing through inflated prices to these sort of guys,who may feel,price dictate quality.....
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I do not have any hurt feelings, you make the threads not me.
Busse is Busse and HI is HI live with it.
 
Since the OP has now clarified that he IS talking about Busse knives, my comment is that if they were overpriced for the performance they deliver, they would not be popular here on BF.

I don't have much use for a large chopping knife, so I don't own any Busse knives.
 
knarfeng said:
Since the OP has now clarified that he IS talking about Busse knives, my comment is that if they were overpriced for the performance they deliver, they would not be popular here on BF.

I don't have much use for a large chopping knife, so I don't own any Busse knives.
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I do not see any clarification as such,related to any particular company so far here,do you?

(comment i posted was related to other thread,as the answer to what was questioned)
 
As far as Busse knives go - I don't know the type intimately so I can't say anything with authority. Your complaint seems to be "INFLATED KNIFE PRICE MARKETING" with regards to Busse. But the price point they're setting for their knives seems to be pretty comparable compared to other knives on the market. Look for fixed blades in CPM 3-V as an example. Demko, for instance makes a 9'' fixed blade with .20'' stock that he sells for around $400. Cold Steel makes a 9'' tanto with .20'' stock for $375. Comparatively, a TGLB is 13'' with .25'' stock and it's $390. If 3-V is comparable to INFI, which by user reports it seems to be, then the knife is priced just about right and might even be the better buy in some instances. INFI might be hyped up but even if the steel isn't all that it's cracked up to be, the prices don't seem unfair for what you get.
 
Well its like shoes, you get what you paid for. If it wasn't natural selection takes place and the company would fold because it wouldn't be popular. The price would at least be in the right ballpark anyway. I haven't bought one yet but I am willing to pay the price going by how many people speaks well for Busse.
 
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Seriousbladeno1 said:
This thread is about marketing through inflated prices to these sort of guys,who may feel,price dictate quality.....
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If I develop a proprietary steel alloy and heat treatment protocol and decide that it meets every standard I feel is relevant to my target market, am I a con artist for charging the price I feel it is worth? Granted, less expensive alternatives may exist, but that seems like a well functioning free market and not any attempt to blatantly inflate prices to tempt stupid people into thinking they are worth more.
 
asdf12345 said:
As far as Busse knives go - I don't know the type intimately so I can't say anything with authority. Your complaint seems to be "INFLATED KNIFE PRICE MARKETING" with regards to Busse. But the price point they're setting for their knives seems to be pretty comparable compared to other knives on the market. Look for fixed blades in CPM 3-V as an example. Demko, for instance makes a 9'' fixed blade with .20'' stock that he sells for around $400. Cold Steel makes a 9'' tanto with .20'' stock for $375. Comparatively, a TGLB is 13'' with .25'' stock and it's $390. If 3-V is comparable to INFI, which by user reports it seems to be, then the knife is priced just about right and might even be the better buy in some instances. INFI might be hyped up but even if the steel isn't all that it's cracked up to be, the prices don't seem unfair for what you get.
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You have a very valid point here,thanks for reply

And No-this thread was not about Busse
 
Seriousbladeno1 said:
along with multiplying price to 650 USD for the very same knife
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This is just marketing and almost everybody that makes and sells products tries to do it. You can say it's better, you can try to convince people that it's better, you can set a high price so that people think it must be better, and if you fool enough people then you get rich. Some people are easy to fool, others are not, and it depends a lot on the type of product, the demand for it and what kind of competition there is.

The general targets for the kind of questioning from the OP would be CRK, Strider and Busse. I don't own a product from any of them and I don't have a lot of interest in owning one. As far as I can tell, the products are of high quality. Whether they are worth 2 or 3 or 4 times what other products are is up to the buyer. Generally it is hard, maybe impossible, for a knife that is 2 or 3 times as expensive to be 2 or 3 times as good.
 
This isn't the only industry this happens in.

This has been proven several times dealing with wine especially. People will do a blind taste test of an expensive bottle and a cheap bottle and not be able to tell the difference. People will do tests where they are told a cheap bottle of wine is expensive and an expensive bottle of wine is cheap wine and people will always pick the cheap win that they think is expensive. In wine competitions even, judges can be given the same glass of wine multiple times without knowing and rate the wine completely different every time.
 
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Or whenever someone thinks a thing is overrated...
 
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