Knife Markups?

unwisefool said:
Lol, I understood it.
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OK, he literally meant a chef's kiss.....got it. :)

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Knives cost what you want to pay. If too much move on in your search.
Call up and that green grass is at my door in 2 hrs. legally..and it's over priced.
 
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I have always had a problem with MAP pricing…..which seems to me to be very close to price fixing. However, there’s an easy alternative if you’re both patient and vigilant: the secondary market. I find it both enjoyable and satisfying to peruse the Forum Exchange here as well as a couple of YouTube channels for all my cutlery “needs”.
 
S SkyStream , you are wrong headed to post that comment here. Many years ago when I joined BF, I didn't understand that it is basically a collector's den, a place to show off your favorite knives and a place to find out what is new in the knife universe. A great place to find out what manufacturers are up to and how their offerings perform. It certainly performs all of that well, better than any other venue on the net.

I wasn't on board though when I first got here. I thought it was a site for users, and personally I had never seen so many clean knives in my life! I love a good knife, but as a construction guy it has to be able to work and function as a tool. No spa treatments, no recoating because a blade is scratched, no sending to a vendor to polish out the blade when it was scuffed. I made a few remarks laughing at the guys that batonned wood letting on that it was in the wild (when you could see traffic lights in the back ground) or guys that talked about "breaking down a FedEx box" or even bragging about cutting up a lot of limes.

I got a great post from the late Esav Benyamin. He got a laugh out of my thoughts on all the super clean "hard use" knives and the awful tasks they had handled and the obviously set up pics, but told me that was the nature of he beast here. His point, not everyone enjoys their knives the same way.

This is a hobby site. There are a few serious users here no doubt, but this is hobby guys and collectors. Lots of weekend warriors, lots of DIY kinds of guys, and a lot of office/white collar guys. That is why you (although surprisingly tame...) you have received so many snarky remarks about your post. To some here, several hundred dollars is a small amount to pay. I have seen posts where some remark that knives around the $100 mark are nearly "disposable". There are those that appreciate a lesser price tag on a knife, but reviewed here it is always predicated on "for what I paid for it" and "it's just a beater, I don't care" and "works OK for this type of knife".

Even though in these trying financial times you may have been simply expressing your frustration with knife pricing, I don't think this is really the place for it. Maybe a subReddit or something like that. But by posting what you did the way you did it on a collectors site insulted those that are financially well to do and can buy what they want (and reinforce that the real problem is you) and to some of the others, like me, the real solution is easy and doesn't need a post: just quite buying knives and your problem is solved.

Think about it this way; what if you got on a watch site and told the people there that watches were too expensive and you couldn't understand why? How about the flashlight sites? Guns? Specialized gear? You could probably just change the nouns and the responses would be about the same.
 
If you are US based you are really spoilt imo with regards to great independent knife makers, who sell their products at what I would personally consider (generally) a reasonable price. Here in the UK we do have some emerging makers and a few established ones. I won't mention any names but I wouldn't pay £500 (about $580) for a basic "bushcraft" pattern made from 01 steel, when you can get a knife basically the same for around £100. I do think we have a bit of a bushcraft thing going on here in the UK and I can only guess some are taking advantage of that.

Me personally I use all of my knives so they must be functional for their purpose. I have cheap knives which I use regularly and more expensive knives also but do have my personal limits re price which I decide myself, but which isn't based on my income etc... £250-300 would be my personal limit.
 
DMG said:
Could you be more specific? Are you talking about the traditional knives that collectors run up the price on or do you just think stuff is overpriced in general?
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The knife dealers sell for higher prices than they should on some of the higher end knives in my opinion. I understand that some of the manufacturers control the retail prices that knives are sold for but when I know a dealer is making $150+ on a $400 knife, I naturally feel ripped off.
 
SkyStream said:
The knife dealers sell for higher prices than they should on some of the higher end knives in my opinion. I understand that some of the manufacturers control the retail prices that knives are sold for but when I know a dealer is making $150+ on a $400 knife, I naturally feel ripped off.
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Which knife dealers are making $150 a copy? I don’t think you have the faintest clue what you are talking about.


And even if they did, you don’t have to buy that $400 knife.
 
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