Lets talk GEC!

Well I missed the $70 barlow so I'm going use the piss out of this one.;)
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Jiki said:
Well I missed the $70 barlow so I'm going use the piss out of this one.;)
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I’m green with envy. Beautiful knife with a patina becoming of a true user. Is that the sole surviving 15 of your collection?
 
chaininsomniac said:
Maybe there is a slight variation in the gold flake each dealer received, thus enabling GEC to follow the flipper pipelines or identify unscrupulous dealers. Would be pretty cool to watch that expiriment, like a dye test.

Good guys charge $63, others charge...?
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Well, maybe at least the "cat is out of the bag" at this point.
 
Pàdruig said:
If I were to venture a guess:

The dealers that didn't price gouge, listed Charlie's TC at a similar rate that they have gone for in the past at retail. Charlie's TCs are also SFOs which typically are priced higher than the standard runs - when you think about the time, effort, and love that Charlie puts into his SFOs, I think the prices (retail) are entirely justified.

All of that said, I am still rather surprised that these non-SFO TCs are priced so low. It is really going to drive home the point that there are some truly shameful (shameless?) folks out there when the knives start popping up on the secondary market.
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I agree, and I was not surprised at the fair price a few dealers charged for the sepia TCs... it was in line with my expectations for that knife.

That said, when the same company immediately puts out the exact same knife with a different cover, and it is listed at half the price as its predecessor... then it makes me question the real value of the first. Not that it really matters to me, I have no dog in this hunt, and likely never will.
 
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We have reached a sad point. The truth is obvious now. Many dealers have become flippers.

This is much different than individuals selling their knives for a profit. No one is forced to buy a knife from an individual, but we have no choice but to buy our knives from dealers. When dealers begin to price gouge, there are only two choices; pay what they demand or move on. I may very well move on. I certainly will not patronize flipper dealers. For the time being, I will stick with the good guys even if it means I miss out on certain knives. We should all be taking names.

GEC better do something about this. Greedy people are about to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
 
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I have not been at this long at all, so take that for what it is, but it’s sure odd that you can’t even get the dealers to communicate with you. I’ve literally only heard back from one and they’ve been mentioned in this thread and on YouTube as one that has been suspected of bad dealing. (pun intended.) :)

For a complete newbie to all this, it sure is a turn off and disappointing. I don’t mind paying for a quality item, but just seems like people are taking advantage and creating a perhaps false market.
 
GEC has had to have received a ton of complaints about this situation, but so far they haven't attempted to make any changes. That's disappointing.
 
I'm just glad GEC has managed to survive the pandemic thus far. A lot of smaller businesses won't. Give them a break. At least until the pandemic is under control and things return to a kind of normal.

In mean time I've had great fun fishing for older Remingtons, Cases, Canal Streets, Cripple Creeks, Queens, S&M's, Bucks, Camilli etc.
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But here's another 86 for your viewing pleasure :)
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mbkr said:
I'm just glad GEC has managed to survive the pandemic thus far. A lot of smaller businesses won't. Give them a break. At least until the pandemic is under control and things return to a kind of normal.

In mean time I've had great fun fishing for older Remingtons, Cases, Canal Streets, Cripple Creeks, Queens, S&M's, Bucks, Camilli etc.
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But here's another 86 for your viewing pleasure :)
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That's one I kinda regret not getting. At the time the 86 seemed too big, but my knife preferences have changed in that direction since. And, more importantly, I've really come to like that wrench shield more and more as I see them!
 
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