There are a few approaches to purchasing Himalayan Imports products. The first is to follow the link at the top of this sub-forum's page to get to the H.I. online store.
The second is to watch this sub-forum for posts by Yangdu; they may be titled "Early Bird Special", or "Deals for [someDate]", or have the name of a particular knife that is being offered. Sometimes, these knives have cosmetic blemishes, sometimes it's just that they are being offered at a discount. These postings happen fairly frequently, but not every day, and they don't go up at a particular time, so it tends to be a matter of being at the right place at the right time.
Those knives are offered on a first-come-first-served basis, and the way to say "I'll take it" is by email. The email needs to be to
HIMIMP@aol.com, have a subject something like:
BF: DOTD [date] -- I'll take the [knife name]
The body of the email needs to contain your contact and shipping information as well as how you will be making payment (I normally use PayPal) -- it doesn't hurt to re-state the knife that you want and how much it is. NOTE: just posting "I'll take the..." isn't good enough -- the first email to arrive gets it. Most people post a note that they've sent an email and what they're trying to get (as a courtesy to others), but not everybody does, so just because nobody else has posted doesn't mean you're first in line.
A lesser used, but sometimes effective, approach is to email Yangdu (at
HIMIMP@aol.com) and ask if she has a specific model that you may have seen -- you never know, sometimes it's not posted because a shipment just came in, or there aren't enough of them to offer in the store.
And, of course, they sometimes even show up in the Exchange -> For Sale: Production Knives (Individual) sub-forum, although not very often. Most of the people who buy H.I. knives hold onto them.
And FYI emailing Yangdu about a model that caught your eye or about an idea sometimes turns up some nice blades. I've snagged plenty of blades that way. 