Paying too much on purpose??

CUTS LIKE A KRIS

CUTS LIKE A KRIS

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A couple of months ago I was at a gun show and paid about $80 too much for 2 knives. The thing was that I purposely paid the extra. The gentleman selling the knives had his wife die a few days before and needed the money. I saw a couple of knives I liked, asked how much he would sell them for and paid it. I have also bought knives at a fair price from friends just because they needed the money and I had a bit that I could spare. I guess it is the Yin to the Yang of great deals I have found over the years (balance in the universe and all);).

Anybody else give too much on purpose??
 
CUTS LIKE A KRIS said:
I have also bought knives at a fair price from friends just because they needed the money and I had a bit that I could spare.
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Yes. Me too. Everyone around me knows that i have that knife collecting addiction. I also think its a way of justifying what I want, but don't really need. Kinda like, well i don't have this one, and "Bill" does need the money...
 
Just spent $35 to re-furbish/sharpen an old Kershaw "Vapor" that I could have got new for less, but I like THAT knife :)
 
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I am willing to pay a premium for good customer service.
I don't think that is necessarily paying too much, though.

Joe
 
I pay extra everytime I'm at a brick and mortor store. It's kinda the nature of the beast. But... I don't mind doing it if it helps keep a knife shop open and local.:thumbup:
 
No, but my hat's off to you for paying the extra $$$.

Syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran once wrote that when he's eating out, if the waitress is some kid making a little extra during college, he leaves the standard 15-20% tip. But if she's older, is wearing a ring and it's clear she's got the job because she has to, he tends to be much more generous. Since then, I've thought about that each time my wife and I go out for a meal. We're more aware of whether we're being served by one of the owners, a school kid or someone who really could use the extra $$$.
 
Once, at a local gun show, an older gentleman(70-80ish) and his daughter(40ish) had a table with lots of old stuff. While I was browsing some of the older slipjoints, he metioned that while they were used, they were well taken care of and of good quality. I could tell he was very proud of the knives he had collected over the years. As he was giving me his prices(very reasonable), his daughter said to him "just take whatever this guy offers you for that junk" The gentleman looked hurt.
I had a table at the show also, and had sold one of my Parker shotguns and a very expensive book collection, and had some extra cash.
I told the man I had been looking for some of these knives for a while, that they were collectors items, and worth way more than he was asking, and gave him $100 for 5 or 6 knives)he was only asking $30-40.
I don't really know why I did it, but it made me feel good, and it made him feel good also.
I still have them, will never use them, but probably never sell them either.....
 
Yager, it did! Someday it will be returned. I done the same with not only knives but other collectables promising not resell them and to continue to care for them. Respecting another's collection by cheerishing it...
 
When I bought my latest pocket knife, the maker's widow was selling the last of his knives through a friend. Normally I would bargain over an $850 knife--but I didn't and I'm glad I didn't.
Greg
 
I bought a bunch of loose shotgun shells off a guy a couple of weeks ago, he was leaving town and gave me a cheap price, and I added 20 bucks. He wasn't hurting for cash, I just figured I should pay more.
Thinking back, I have been pretty generous in the past, giving things to people with nothing expected in return (in a "you like it that much? why don't you have it" way). No karma has come my way yet, maybe its in the mail?
 
Living in a border town British Columbia Canada, to the State of Washington.
As a lot of Canucks do, shop on the U.S. side as prices are a lot more reasonable. My wife and two younger sons at the time,shopping in the mall state side,for school clothes. I had burnt out and was sitting on a bench just at the entrance of the store. And was people watching,which by the way I find interesting. I saw a young couple looking at cribs for a baby, back and forth they would go between the two cribs on display. She was at least in her 8 mth
of carrying. As I watched I could tell, they just didn't have the money.
I always have a $100 bill folded in my wallet,it gets pretty flat after a year or two,also one tends to forget it's there. This was something that my Dad did all his life, in case of an emergence,so father like son.
Long story shorter, I approached the kids,and said,something like.. cant quite remember.I see you are in the family way,and I would be so very pleased if you would accept this money,as a sort of welcome to the new world for your child. There were gasps,tears,hugs and most of all, every one went away feeling excitement,peace,and joy. I wish that I would win the lottery ..what a blast..and what a reward one receives, when giving.
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My son, then about ten years old, and I pulled up on Christmas Eve into an old mall parking lot to where the guys sell firewood off their pickups. I just wanted a few logs for our Christmas fire. None would sell to me because they wanted to sell their full loads.

One pointed to an old, old flatbed truck across the parking lot and said that guy might have some and he surely needed the money. When we went over, there were only a little boy and girl there, both under 10 or so, offering mistletoe at 25 cents a sprig. Soon their young dad came out, I told him what I wanted, and he said to follow him.
We travelled a few miles to the end of a deteriorated dirt road to an old, dilapidated mobile home with a wood pile.
We loaded about ten medium size sticks of wood in my old station wagon, and I asked how much. He looked down, hemmed and hawed a little, and said, "How about $5?"
"I can't go that, how about $25?" I counter offered, since that was about all I had on me. I thought he was going to cry as he said ok.

My son, in view of my somewhat justifed reputation as a tightwad, looked on with great interest. On the way home, we talked about how to help people while letting them keep their pride. The opportunity to teach my son some things was worth a lot more than the $25.
 
I am glad that I started this thread. All of your generosity, to quote a commercial "makes my heart feel good!". These actions and generosity is what makes the knife family different from most other groups I have seen. Thank you to all who know that money is not the be all, end all.
 
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