Is Amazon a good place to get knives?

Blade hq did a price match for me to amazon, (even tho they aren't a certified dealer) and got a benchmade 581 for 135 $ shipped. Sometimes looking around can help :)
 
I snagged a PM 2 from Amazon, when they were sold out everywhere and private sellers were trying to capitalize on that. Had it sent to an Amazon Locker so I could pick it up at my convenience and not have to hang around at my office waiting for FedEx or UPS. It arrived the next day, without selecting 1 day shipping. All in all, a great experience. As long as it's "fulfilled by Amazon", no worries.
 
powernoodle said:
Today I was looking for a certain Cold Steel knife with a 5.5" tanto blade. A BF dealer has it at $109.95 shipped. Amazon is $100.29 shipped. Now, what has this BF dealer done for me that make me want to give him an extra $10 bill (more or less)? Do I reward him for charging me more? Mr. RevDevil thinks that makes me a penny pincher, but if a $10 bill means nothing to some of you guys then just send me a few of them. That $10 bill pushes my Suburban 45 miles down the road.

In this case, it turns out that an auction site had this knife at $90.40 shipped, so that's where I bought it. Its a dealer with 307,000 sales (more than all BF dealers combined) and 99.7% positive feedback. Should I have given that extra $20 to the BF dealer just to be a swell guy? How about if he lowers his prices so he can be the swell guy? When a BF dealer does me the favor of having the lowest price, I do them the favor of buying from them. That's about as fair as it gets.

As for Amazon, I have bought zillions of knives from them without a single issue. When I received a Buck Vantage with a predictable badly off center blade that rubbed the liner (thanks Buck), Amazon shipped me a new Vantage before I even got the old one back in the mail to them (at their expense). I get "free" 2 day shipping with my Prime account, and so on.

I give Amazon, eBay vendors (with zillions of sales and excellent feedback) and BF dealers all high marks. A+'s across the board. But my money goes to the one with the best price.
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Do you ever ask for price match or do you just pull the trigger on the lowest you see, some amazon dealers are just guys that don't play by any of the rules and they cause lots of problems for many people , including Manufacturers. I disagree with many points of your argument and thats Ok, I used to be the same way, but now I ask my favorites for a price match before I buy from someone with less than perfect feedback, 99.7 isn't stellar considering that with 307,000 feedback he would have nearly 100 negative feedback (guessing) one is too many in my back , because that could be you. Just saying
 
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