Investment knife?

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SBaker34

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I am looking for a knife or two to buy in order to hold onto for a bit then resale to make some money, as try as I might and while I would like about 40,000$ worth of knives nothing really jumps out at me. The smartest thing to do would probably buy a couple knives and sell them for more later but what?

I am strongly thinking maybe a couple gold class griptilians, I believe they are supposed to go out of production this year? Considering I want nothing now but I will in a few months it would make sense. Another option is a limited edition ratmandu but who knows how long until they ship out and then I assume they would be available from the store for a while? For all I know I could have to hold onto the knife for 8 months and not use it. Which would make the most sense and does anyone have a suggestion as to what to buy that may go up in value in 3-6 months? I have a 530$ budget. It could be one knife or a few, If you know of 5 100$ good knives liable to go up to 150 sometime ill use one and sell 4 It would be possible for me to buy a few LE osbornes.
 
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Knives are a terrible investment. When you factor in shipping costs and paypal/ Ebay/ Bladeforums membership fees the actual money you might make off a knife that becomes insanely popular might be a decent dinner or two for yourself.

Very few knives actually go up in value and most you end up selling for less than you paid for them. Figuring out what is going to be hot and demand more money than they currently cost is a crapshoot at best.

I have a bunch of knives that are new in box and most of them are limited runs that are quite popular now and not made anymore and if I sold them all I would be very surprised if I was able to break even. Buy some gold or silver or better yet, go talk to an investment specialist.
 
FlaMtnBkr is right IMO.

You better get some Scagles', Randalls', LE Busses', Hanson III, Loveless, Moran, Warenski ..........
 
Sargent 666 said:
FlaMtnBkr is right IMO.

You better get some Scagles', Randalls', LE Busses', Hanson III, Loveless, Moran, Warenski ..........
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And be prepared to wait. Better off investing money in prescious metals like FMB mentioned.
 
Good luck with your investment knives. Like everyone else said knives are bad investments, especially in this economy. Your better off investing in a good mutual fund or gold/silver.
 
The only knife I bought and it was not intended for investment was the closeout Rajah 1 by Cold Steel. $99 or 2 for $150 and they were selling for way over $200 - up to $280 on eBay. All gone now though.

I sold mine close to $200 on eBay + shipping and the feedback was: "the most beautiful knife I've ever seen" guess he really liked it! I should have bought about 50 of them :D

Like the stock market - hindsight is alwasy 20/20. Buy your knives to use and/or enjoy them IMO. :)
 
I agree with the rest.

Real braniacs cannot time even the stock market or commodities with any predictability, especially short-term. Accordingly, I doubt any of us could time collectibles with any accuracy whatsoever. And, even if we could hypothetically, it would take a significant / HUGE volume of (penny-ante relatively speaking) collectibles (like knives) to make enough money to make it worth any effort... and then it STILL wouldn't be worth it.

Some people really thought they could make money "investing" in beanie-babies.:jerkit:
 
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I don't think commodities is going to net you very big returns, unless you are guarding against inflation but those at two very different things.

If you are looking for safe go with AAA rated banks. We've got stacks over here. :D

Or go risky and invest in Green Tech.
 
banana-clip said:
Good luck with your investment knives. Like everyone else said knives are bad investments, especially in this economy. Your better off investing in a good mutual fund or gold/silver.
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Mutual funds, gold, and silver, can also crash at any moment. There are no guarantees when investing. Gold and Silver in particular are vastly inflated and subject to the excesses of government manipulation. When interests rates are finally allowed to climb precious metal demand will dry up fast.

Collecting is a whole other kind of risk. It depends on fads and whether or not something appreciates depends on it popularity at the time of sale. Knives can also be banned or seized by the govenrment as they have been in many markets around the globe. They are harder and more expensive to store then a gold coin; they take up space, they must be secured, and they can rust or stain with ease.

The dividend earned in collecting is paid out in terms of entertainment, education, and functionality. As such it doesn't have a quantifiable net present value, that can easily calculated. However, since it does maintain a resale value, it is vastly superior to many other forms of entertainments, and there is always the chance that you will actually have a knife when the need arises.

n2s
 
invest in a gun.....
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Guns are just about like knives when it comes to investing. Buy them because you like them. You really just have to luck into one that can make some money, because you never know what the future holds.
 
SBaker34 said:
Well it seems you guys have a point.
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If knives were a spectacular, replicable, proven investment option, the pros in investing would be speculation on them, holding them in escrow, making them impossible to have. Simply put, pros who invest would already be on it if there's significant money to be made and it's easy. Only reason they wouldn't would be political/legal barriers, which as we know, won't mean anything to a few of them, and hidden, proprietary knowledge, which doesn't meet the definition of an open forum.

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For real? Read up on U.S. Civil War swords (Confederate models, in particular), and search the auctions, estate sales, farm sales, barntique sales, etc. . . .
 
link2derek said:
For real? Read up on U.S. Civil War swords (Confederate models, in particular), and search the auctions, estate sales, farm sales, barntique sales, etc. . . .
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Do you plan on waiting 150 years to cash in on your investments? If you have to buy them now at a high price then the potential to make money is again a gamble. I would also consider those antiques first that happen to be cutlery.
 
Sargent 666 said:
FlaMtnBkr is right IMO.

You better get some Scagles', Randalls', LE Busses', Hanson III, Loveless, Moran, Warenski ..........
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If you're really talking investment, these are the kind of knives to look for.

IMHO, "limited edition," "first production run," "sprint run" from the typical contemporary manufacturer are not really investments, despite the fact that some of them may increase in value. Your example of gold class Griptilians would not, IMO, be a good bet. I have a gold class Benchmade, and once tried to sell it--got one offer for a little over 1/2 of what it cost. If civilization still exists when your grandkids are around, they may sell for $$$ on the future equivalent of Antique Road show, but then so will McDonald's toys. ;)

And I think you're going to need to do a lot of research to do it right.
 
I have roughly 80-90 Busses. If I started to liquidate them today I would make a decent amount of money. However, I have never considered them to be investments. I own them for my enjoyment and use, and would not feel slighted in the least if I never made a dime on them.

If you have a ten years plus investment horizion, common stock is still the way to go. Common stocks are why I can have 80 Busses.:D
 
Knives are a bad investment from strictly an investment stand point as has been explained here in detail. That said occaisionally even the sun shines on a dogs ass, and to help KeithAM along I offer this example.

Microtech Option II, limited run. I bought mine in 2002 for about $80.00, the two most recent sales on ebay both this month might I add were in the high 300 and high 400 dollar range. That is an over 100% return on your money in less than eight (8) years roughly an annualized rate of return at just over 12%.

That ain't too shabby, now the knives can't be used as the two most recently sold were NIB (still in the plastic), so those prices are as good as it gets but I've seen used one sell for high $200.00 say around 250 to 275 range. That is still over a 100% return on your money. Not bad, here is the problem, PICK THE NEXT MICROTECH OPTION II, in all probability you can't, neither can anyone else with any certainty and therein lies the rub. Are you going to buy 10 or more knives today priced at X NIB, to hold these knives in actually physical possession meaning safeguarding against theft, loss, damage due to fire, etc, for an undetermined amount of time only to find out that 8 years even NIB (still in plastic) you can only get what you paid for them as the manf. brought them back into production, or so popular decided to never phase it out, etc.


NO, your not. So buy knives you like to use and look at and find something else to invest in.
 
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