Local knife shop has stopped carrying benchmade

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The guy behind the knife counter told me that theyre stopping because benchmade wants a minimum order of $1500! And i believe he also said kershaw has a minimum order of 6 knives (like 6 chives, 6 leeks, etc.) as their minimum order.
 
If they're selling those Benchmades at MSRP or the 15% off MSRP. Say a combination of griptilians and ti frame locks along with a couple more Axis locks, it really boils down to an order of ten knives or so....
 
ibute21 said:
If they're selling those Benchmades at MSRP or the 15% off MSRP. Say a combination of griptilians and ti frame locks along with a couple more Axis locks, it really boils down to an order of ten knives or so....
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I have to say that unless store volume is really small at this place it would seem like an order of 1500 would be no big deal. I would wager that he is not carrying them anymore due to online competition.
 
It's due to a lot of stupid rules that BM has for dealers now. I won't get into it in detail here but suffice to say that when the new policies went into effect a ton of retailers dropped them, including some of their biggest customers. It was just too much headache.
 
Well, I have already seen a couple retailers dropping basically all the decent brands and leaving only some CRKT, Gerbers and few cheap CS and straight Chinese brands...
More expensive knives are sold by internet shops mostly this days. And these knives are not the kind of merchandise which goes well with impulse buy. But the cheap staff in the range of 10 - 30 dollars is.
Keeping dealing with retail outlets which move less than 1500 dollars worth of merchandise a month - that is for busy fools. What do you think would be BM margin there, considering that they sell their knives at dealer's prices, not full retail?
That is all just my opinion. I might be wrong. But that sort of makes sense to me.
 
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