Let's talk Northwoods

Smithhammer said:
Follow-up with kudos to KSF - despite the insane volume of orders yesterday, I've already got shipping notifications. Despite the tech snafus yesterday (which I think would be tough to entirely avoid in a case like this), they are doing a great job, imo.
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yes, aproxymately 900+ knives with the stragglers!
great job Jay Rouch & Team KSF
 
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Smithhammer said:
Follow-up with kudos to KSF - despite the insane volume of orders yesterday, I've already got shipping notifications. Despite the tech snafus yesterday (which I think would be tough to entirely avoid in a case like this), they are doing a great job, imo.
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Usually they send out the shipping notifications a few hours after the drop and Jay posts a picture of all the knives in USPS envelopes ready to go out on Facebook. I guess there were a lot more this time so the notifications came the next day.
 
vaagn said:
Usually they send out the shipping notifications a few hours after the drop and Jay posts a picture of all the knives in USPS envelopes ready to go out on Facebook. I guess there were a lot more this time so the notifications came the next day.
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Yeah, my experience with KSF has always been that they ship next day at the latest (not just a notification that a label has been created, but actually en route), but I figured given yesterday's deluge that it may take an additional day or two.
 
I was able to land a shredded wheat, but I missed completely that they are photographed individually. The photo in my email looks like the photo from the drop page, so wondering what mine will look like.
 
Until KnivesShipFree increases their bandwidth and/or starts renting some server space for these drops, I’m not wasting my time anymore. They should know what to expect by this point. Their servers take a giant dump every single time. Numerous freezes, crashes, and errors…. Over and over again. I tried checking out five or six different times. On the few attempts that the knife I selected was still available, I’d get a payment error (or the screen would hang and then give me a server not found error). And for some reason, KSF keeps defaulting to using my old address (which eats a lot of time in checkout), no matter how many times I update it in my account options. I had to make a whole new account last time this happened. This can’t be fun for people.

It’s a nice slap in the face seeing people walk away with two or three knives…. But hey, someone offered to sell me one of theirs for $500, so there’s that. :rolleyes:

Alright, that’s enough sour grapes from me, I think. Can’t wait to see some pics posted when they come in. :)
 
Fixall said:
Until KnivesShipFree increases their bandwidth and/or starts renting some server space for these drops, I’m not wasting my time anymore. They should know what to expect by this point. Their servers take a giant dump every single time. Numerous freezes, crashes, and errors…. Over and over again. I tried checking out five or six different times. On the few attempts that the knife I selected was still available, I’d get a payment error (or the screen would hang and then give me a server not found error). And for some reason, KSF keeps defaulting to using my old address (which eats a lot of time in checkout), no matter how many times I update it in my account options. I had to make a whole new account last time this happened. This can’t be fun for people.

It’s a nice slap in the face seeing people walk away with two or three knives…. But hey, someone offered to sell me one of theirs for $500, so there’s that. :rolleyes:

Alright, that’s enough sour grapes from me, I think. Can’t wait to see some pics posted when they come in. :)
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Pretty much the same experience I had but not unexpected. As I mentioned earlier announcing drops in advance makes them imho a crap shoot. As the stranger said in the Big Lebowski, “Sometimes you eat the barr and sometimes the barr eats you”. 😜
 
RayTL said:
I was able to land a shredded wheat, but I missed completely that they are photographed individually. The photo in my email looks like the photo from the drop page, so wondering what mine will look
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The micarta covers are not pictured individually because there’s very little variation between them. Mammoth or Kudu or Giraffe can be drastically different from one another, that’s why they have individual photos of those covers. The Appaloosa bone covers from the Signal Jack didn’t even have individual photos.
 
Fixall said:
Until KnivesShipFree increases their bandwidth and/or starts renting some server space for these drops, I’m not wasting my time anymore. They should know what to expect by this point. Their servers take a giant dump every single time. Numerous freezes, crashes, and errors…. Over and over again. I tried checking out five or six different times. On the few attempts that the knife I selected was still available, I’d get a payment error (or the screen would hang and then give me a server not found error). And for some reason, KSF keeps defaulting to using my old address (which eats a lot of time in checkout), no matter how many times I update it in my account options. I had to make a whole new account last time this happened. This can’t be fun for people.

It’s a nice slap in the face seeing people walk away with two or three knives…. But hey, someone offered to sell me one of theirs for $500, so there’s that. :rolleyes:

Alright, that’s enough sour grapes from me, I think. Can’t wait to see some pics posted when they come in. :)
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People always complain about website servers. They want knife dealers to pay big bucks for a server to handle massive traffic for a drop that happens for 10 minutes once or twice a year. Every other hour of every day it's perfectly fine. If they get a server that can handle that traffic they might have to crank up their prices on everything to compensate. That would just lead to more complaining of course.
 
sf fanatic said:
Pretty much the same experience I had but not unexpected. As I mentioned earlier announcing drops in advance makes them imho a crap shoot. As the stranger said in the Big Lebowski, “Sometimes you eat the barr and sometimes the barr eats you”. 😜
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Yea…. You win some, you lose some. That’s all the complaining I’ll be doing though, lol. Just “oohs and ahhs” from me for the rest of the thread. :)

DustinK said:
People always complain about website servers. They want knife dealers to pay big bucks for a server to handle massive traffic for a drop that happens for 10 minutes once or twice a year. Every other hour of every day it's perfectly fine. If they get a server that can handle that traffic they might have to crank up their prices on everything to compensate. That would just lead to more complaining of course.
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Cloudhosting + CDN? I’m pretty sure servers can be temporarily rented for drops like these. At least I’ve been told that by smaller businesses that host hotly anticipated drops for my other hobbies.
 
Fixall said:
Yea…. You win some, you lose some. That’s all the complaining I’ll be doing though, lol. Just “oohs and ahhs” from me for the rest of the thread. :)



Cloudhosting + CDN? I’m pretty sure servers can be temporarily rented for drops like these. At least I’ve been told that by smaller businesses that host hotly anticipated drops for my other hobbies.
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What would be the point? If their website worked flawlessly we would hear the same amount of whining but it would be about getting cart sniped instead of website issues. It would not change a single thing except what people complained about.
 
DustinK said:
What would be the point? If their website worked flawlessly we would hear the same amount of whining but it would be about getting cart sniped instead of website issues. It would not change a single thing except what people complained about.
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Fair. 🤣
 
bbfish said:
Oh man apple pay which is usually my ally turned on me yesterday! Must've went 0/6 on giraffes. After the failure I went and had some bourbon then spent the exact amount I would have spent on a giraffe on fishing gear. Could've actually been more, but im not telling my wife that. Yesterday was not a total loss, next time ill remember to gird my loins properly.
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Fishing gear is good. Fishing is more fun than Northwoods drops anyway.
 
Eagle has landed. Another well made knife to the collection.
I had a giraffe spear point bear lake several years ago and, from what I recall, the snap is much better on this years release. I could be misremembering, but I believe the pulls were fairly light on my past version with a bouncy or springy feeling halfstop. This one is nice and snappy with what I would call a 5 (kind of the bottom range of what I prefer).
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Seems like the discussion has veered off to being more about the process and less about the knives which I know happens every drop but this was an epic drop with over 600 knives, several cover options, two different blade shapes on the Bear Lakes, stragglers, etc., and I just think that was very cool.

I can assure you that if you spent just a few minutes talking to J about the drops you'll see nobody takes the issues harder than him and he's put a lot more thought into it than anyone in this thread.
 
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