Got into collecting knives about 6 yrs ago when I got tired of buying/selling guns because of the PITA that had become.
Acquired most of my collection (of over 400 knives) when there was a greater variety of knives available for sale & prices were a lot cheaper.
There are only a few rare, high ticket items left on my buy list. So, I may soon need to find a new focus in knife collecting or find something entirely different to spend my time, attention & $ on but that doesn't mean that I'm going to sell off any knives from my collection . . .
because I spent a lot of time building the collection, because there are only 25-50 less expensive knives that I'd want to cull from the collection & because I don't need the $ or space that would result from that effort.