My "1 of 500" strider not #1?

[MWTBDLTR]

Heres my question. I picked up a 880 buck strider on eBay that was labeled "first production run, 1 of 500"

I thought i scored majorly, the first knife off the line, etc etc. I look on eBay today and look what i find the Exact same thing. It says "1st Production Run 1 of 500", just like mine.

So why would they make more than one "1 of 500", i guess it stands for being one of the 500, of 500. Oh well.

The buy it now price is insane, 250$. I got mine for 108, new.

I don't think i can post live eBay auctions, but but I'll try to pretend posting the number is somehow different....

 

[robertmegar]

1 of 500 is not number one. Number one would be: " #001 of 500"

 

[Buckaholic]

Yep, it is one unit of the five hundred made.

 

[MWTBDLTR]

Ah damn. Whatever though, that makes me a bit happier about beating it.

 

[chickentrax]

I don't think i can post live eBay auctions, but the # is 270119588375

You can't post auction IDs either - read & weep -

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4008838&postcount=71

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4008919&postcount=75

 

[Rocinante]

Another thing I believe happens on e-Bay.......numbered sets that are meaningless.

I think some distributors order 100 or 250 knives and actually stamp numbers on them and then sell them as a numbered set of 1 through 250.

True, the knife you buy will be a 1 of 250......but just that particular contrived set......there may have been 50,000 of the same knife produced, maybe even other numbered sets.

Some of them actually go to the trouble of ordering the knives with a tiny change from the regular knives of the same model.

Some don't even do that.

I also question whether or not a "First Production Run" of 500 always actually starts with the first knife off the line of that model. I think it can be just a numbered or unnumbered run of 500 knives from the first year of production.

I'm glad I have my Idaho stamped 2005 120BR because Joe's records show that only 250 were made that year.

I'll have two when they send me the other one after the Pommel is fixed.

 

[Buckaholic]

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I'm glad I have my Idaho stamped 2005 120BR because Joe's records show that only 250 were made that year.
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Ditto.
I am glad it was the 120 Pro-Line that hit the pavement and not my 120BR Potato Stamp