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New Software/Website

I think it would be great to have a site that users may be able to pay a small fee each month, which would enable the sale of knives. Its almost crazy what some sites want to make you sell your knives.
 
Hey vhp,
Thanks for the input! It's going to start out as a way to keep track of inventory, and then move to the selling/trading of knives. People can share their lists with other people so they can see what all they have. It will be beneficial to you for inventory and also be an easy was to track down that particular knife you've been dying to get your hands on!
 
I just use an Excel spreadsheet. It works fine for me. You can reorder the rows based on any column so you can make a list by maker, by insert material, blade profile, price, whatever. You can search for key words. And I don't have to learn another task-specific piece of software.

There is already a company that makes such a program as you envision. They make many versions of it for coin collectors, stamp collectors, beanie baby collectors, whatever. You know it's the same program; they just change the labels on the fields.
 
Chuck,
We have thrown around the idea of being able to import your spreadsheet right into the program. As far as learning a new program, well, we are hoping to simplfy and make it very intuitive. Sometimes people get frustrated trying to use Excel for whatever reason. Plus, the capabilities of it would be great because of the integration to a trade/sell website.
Thanks for the info.
Carlton Binkley
 
vhp said:
I think it would be great to have a site that users may be able to pay a small fee each month, which would enable the sale of knives. Its almost crazy what some sites want to make you sell your knives.
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Here at BF, it's $25 a year which breaks down to just a tad over $2 a month. Pretty reasonable.

Edit: also it seems a bit disrespectful to this site to use it for gathering marketing data for your own future knife selling website. Just a thought.
 
Yup pretty rude and disrespectful.
 
Carlton Binkley said:
Chuck,
We have thrown around the idea of being able to import your spreadsheet right into the program.
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Just make it take in csv files. Most every spreadsheet or database programs can read -- and WRITE -- csvs. I would not use a program that doesn't because there would be no way out of it if I ever needed to change.


Sometimes people get frustrated trying to use Excel for whatever reason.
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I get frustrated by Excel. And I can tell you why: it's a difficult program to use. But, I have figured out what I need and there are so many expert users out there that if I need something I don't know, I can find the answer easily. I have one neighbor who is a cost accountant at Intel who can make Excel sing and dance. He taught me to make graphs with it. I can make a pie chart showing what fraction of my knives are worth less than $100, 100 - 200, 200 - 300, etc. I can make a bar graph showing number of knives by insert material and look at it and say, "you really do like mother of pearl, don't you?" That's a pretty neat feature.
 
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