Opinions, should i buy a cheap knife now or wait to get a better one?

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Hi, I want a new knife and I have already bought a few cheaper ones ($50-$100) and I want another one should I buy another cheaper one or wait a few more months to buy a better one? I think I know the answer but I can't read your minds so what are you opinions thank you for you time -calvin
 
Save up and buy something nicer.
 
Spartanwarrior said:
Hi, I want a new knife and I have already bought a few cheaper ones ($50-$100)
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damn that's cheap? that's not so cheap for some of us. :p everyone's different but i wouldn't spend more than $100 on a knife.
what are you going to use the knife for? if it's going to be a heavy user or beat the hell out of it, why go expensive, unless it's going to be knife jewelry.
 
Yikes. Simple. Do what makes you happier. :thumbup: We cant tell you what you want to do! :confused:
 
Sell two of the ones you have, and you'll have the money to buy something more expensive, now!
 
Well if you look at the big picture $100 ain't so much. I in stead of spending money on video games and stuff like that I use it to buy knives. True five years ago I would have looked at a $100 dollar price tag and thought it was astronomically high but now I see all the actual big price tags ($500+)
 
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That's a good way too look at it. I though $70 for an Endura was expensive then I looked at my drag car and thought what a damn money pit.
 
I would save up and buy something nicer. Over time I have found the cheaper knives I purchased get carried very little while I alternate the nicer ones in my collection for EDC.
 
buy whatever blows your skirt up. if it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to buy an expensive knife, go with it. :thumbup:
lately all i've been using my knife for is opening boxes, which most of the time a box cutter works better, opening mail, and cutting string. do you need an expensive knife to do this? my case peanut is the choice for me at the moment.
 
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A few of my faves are right around $100 like the Yojimbo2 , Manix2 and 710. So I'd grab one of those.

Bur if you're looking for something between $200-$300 then u better be sure u def like it before you waste your time and money.
 
Since you already have some knives in the 50 to 100 dollars price range, perhaps you should save up and get something a bit more special. You don't actually need the knife for anything right now, so there's no harm in waiting a bit.
 
Expensive means expensive, not nice.

Inexpensive means inexpensive, not poor quality.

Suggest pointing your browser to the term "pricing strategy". This is about you feeling good about yourself. It's not about knives.
 
if all of your knives are under 100, go for 1 or 2 more expensive knife, and see how you like them, at least you are seeing new things.
 
Never ever buy a cheap knife. Inexpensive, sure, all day long. I love my Svord peasants, Opinels, Moras. Average price, less than $20 each, lots available for less than $10. Now, a $10 Opinel and a $10 gas-station-generic are both inexpensive, but the gas-station-generic is the only one of the two that's cheap.

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If you went Spyderco the quality is already assured, so it would be a non issue. Then all you have to do is figure out if you can afford it now, or if you have to wait. As mentioned above, there are already some Spyderco's within those price parameters.
 
Buy what YOU want and don't worry about what others think of your purchase. Instead of buying what others want you to buy, save the $$$ and buy nothing.
 
The big picture involves far more than knives. Think paying for savings, college, cars, mortgages, vacations to far away places to see things people only dream about as they view it on the internet. I don't see anything wrong with what people do with their expendable cash of course but when its said within the framework of big picture I would feel irresponsible to not have the OP look at how they value objects again.

Some of the best and most popular cutters on the forum are all under $100. You did ask for an opinion, so I would have to offer up ask yourself what you want in a knife and if that could only be found in a price range above what you normally spend. At then end of the day they all cut things. But if you want a piece of eye candy that you can objectively say, hey its an expensive knife and that makes me feel good then by all means upgrade to a pricier knife. I just hope that it doesn't define your big picture. :) I'd give up a hundred knives if I had that many for another one of those once in a lifetime experiences, objects can't fill that void - for me at least!
 
I think this depends entirely on what knives you are looking at. If you have a specific inexpensive knife you're looking at then why not get it if it makes you happy? But if you're talking about just buying a knife because you have a little money then I vote wait. Add to it, that way when you see something specific that you like you'll have more money to work with. Don't spend money just to spend it.
 
Just wait and get something nice, but wait from that point there is no turning back :)
 
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