Is the Recession Hurting Your Knife Sales?

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Ang_Panday

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I just wanted to know if it has affected your knife sales :confused: Ever since I started selling knives this year has got to be the worst :thumbdn:
 
Well, I've had a few guy's order things and when the items were finished I got no response form them or an excuse as to why they couldn't make the purchase. Oh well, Usually a different buyer will pop up after a while anyway. If someone is really financially strapped a custom knife or tomahawk falls pretty low on the priority list. Luckily this is just a hobby for me.. My real job pays the bills..
 
I've only been doing this for a year or two but it seems like it is down to me. On the other hand. A great chance to learn new techniques and build an inventory
 
so far its helped me. I live in the oil and gas boom area in New Mexico. MARBOB is a oil company here and gave every employee a $100,000 bonus payed the taxes on it so they got that much cash, pay for all of your kids colledge as long as the maintain a b adverage, pay them a salary to go to school and pay all of your medical insurance no matter how many in your family. Move to N.M. CDL license go to work starting at $30.00 per hour. The only fool here is me for making $2.00 a hour making knives
 
Cloyde said:
so far its helped me. I live in the oil and gas boom area in New Mexico. MARBOB is a oil company here and gave every employee a $100,000 bonus payed the taxes on it so they got that much cash, pay for all of your kids colledge as long as the maintain a b adverage, pay them a salary to go to school and pay all of your medical insurance no matter how many in your family. Move to N.M. CDL license go to work starting at $30.00 per hour. The only fool here is me for making $2.00 a hour making knives
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I'm with Cloyde, I live in the panhandle of Texas and I've had more sales in the last 5 to 6 months than I've ever had.I have contributed it to the oilfeild around here. I have been watching the for sale forums though on several different sights and I don't know if it's in my mind or really happening, but sales seem to be slower and prices seem to be dropping.
 
I think the thing that hurts us the most is makers drop there price to $50.00 for a ivory handle, cpm 154 cm, full file work, (this is a exazoration) knife. This forces all of us to wonder. A custom knife in my openion should be sold to the people that by a hummer and have it destroyed so they can installl noew seats, dvd, 40" wheels and brag on what it cost for them to do it. I'm just not sure how to get from wal-mart to wall street. I had a customer tell me the value of a knife is the cheepest thing in the knive, if it's the sheith than the value is that of the sheith. People will buy quality so I have been making less knives and working hard on quality both in materials and a package in the hole. forgive the spelling.
Cloyde
 
I put a lot of my lower cost knives up on Ebay and there has been a noticable drop in the number of bidders and selling price in the past 3 months for sure..... So the lower cost sales are hurting and I suspect those buyers are the most impacted by rising costs for fuel and food as the first to get hours cut at work when budgets get cut.

On the high cost customs I have had a drop in the number of orders I have been getting and I actually am nearly caught up on the backlog I have had for many months..... As they tend to be from all over the country and even Europe, I suspect that may be related to concerns about the future, stock and bond yeild drops as well as the potential for a world wide recession.

Heck, I will just keep making knives for my personal collection if the sales drop below my ususal output....
 
With the latest news of huge bailouts your taxes will go way up.We'll have to get used to very reduced standard of living for the future !!
 
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