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DJL1124

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I have never been one for Ebay but recently have been trolling around out of curiosity , the amount of cutlery is staggering! As with any market that big there are bound to be tons of cheap imitations . The particular question I have is : I've been looking at SOG knives and know they have a manufacturer in China I also know that regardless of cheap labor and materials it is impossible to sell even a lesser quality SOG knife for $6.00.but the packaging would suggest it's made by them although the emblem on the blade looks not quite right. Is this just more of the counterfeit garbage the People's Army and the other knockoff shops are famous for , or is it just some kind of surplus or third party dealing in the real thing?
 
Too true.

ALWAYS compare any SOG you're considering buying on eBay w/one at another reputable online shop like AG Russell, SOG Inc site, Cutlery Shoppe Inc. online etc.

The packaging is usually a giveaway as well as the bulky, awkward design of the knockoff knives.
 
how come every time I hear ebay on this site it is to complain that they got ripped off?? if you buy on ebay site then you get what you deserve.
 
I've bought many knives on ebay and none have been knockoffs or counterfeit.

You just need to do a little research and use a little common sense.
 
spotted a presumably chinese copy
of a long discontinued vintage,
the sog desert dagger.
rest easy though, as it doesn't say sog knives anywhere.
but instead is labled with the logo of a german importer
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straight off the mainland
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ok, gotta admit it's THE ONLY VALID REASON to have one
as a center piece for a goddess uma shrine.
it sure beats the futile excuse of even trying to qualify as an armchair commando...
 
richard thurman said:
how come every time I hear ebay on this site it is to complain that they got ripped off?
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Let me break your streak, then. I've probably bought 100 items on eBay, and every one of them has been A+. The closest I've come to a bad trip was when a knife never made it to me, and seller Poor_Fish sent me another.


richard thurman said:
if you buy on ebay site then you get what you deserve.
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That may be true if you buy from some Hong Kong seller with 4 sales, no feedback and a name like bestgoodhappyknives. But if you buy on eBay from trusted sellers with multiple thousands of good feedbacks and a 99.7% rating, you also get what you deserve: a genuine OEM knife at a price that beats just about everyone else on the interweb. So exercising a few brain cells (I only have a handful left) before you hit the "buy now" button can be the difference between a great sale and a ripoff. Whether its eBay or Bladeforums, you can control your own destiny by picking a trusted seller with good feedback. This may require passing on what looks like a few killer deals, but if the seller doesn't have much good feedback then it may have never been a good deal to begin with.

The first thing I look at on B/S/T is the seller's feedback score. If it doesn't rock, I don't buy the knife no matter how good the deal looks. Same on eBay. And as if by magic, I've never been hosed on either site. Caveat Emptor!
 
powernoodle said:
Let me break your streak, then. I've probably bought 100 items on eBay, and every one of them has been A+. The closest I've come to a bad trip was when a knife never made it to me, and seller Poor_Fish sent me another.




That may be true if you buy from some Hong Kong seller with 4 sales, no feedback and a name like bestgoodhappyknives. But if you buy on eBay from trusted sellers with multiple thousands of good feedbacks and a 99.7% rating, you also get what you deserve: a genuine OEM knife at a price that beats just about everyone else on the interweb. So exercising a few brain cells (I only have a handful left) before you hit the "buy now" button can be the difference between a great sale and a ripoff. Whether its eBay or Bladeforums, you can control your own destiny by picking a trusted seller with good feedback. This may require passing on what looks like a few killer deals, but if the seller doesn't have much good feedback then it may have never been a good deal to begin with.

The first thing I look at on B/S/T is the seller's feedback score. If it doesn't rock, I don't buy the knife no matter how good the deal looks. Same on eBay. And as if by magic, I've never been hosed on either site. Caveat Emptor!
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Ya, I buy a lot of knives from ebay and have not been ripped off once. Bought a CQC 14 Snubby for like $140

However I advise to stay away from striders on that site, lots of fakes passing off for real deals
 
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