Price Jump

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Jake Bauer

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I just went over to NGK and looked at the spyderco pages and noticed lots of price jumps. For example, Tenacious from $31 to $34, Caly 3 from $99 to $109, Native from approx. $57ish to $62, etc.... What's the deal? NGK just jack up prices or did msrps go up as well? Economy sucks so I'd understand if prices went up, but I was just wondering.
 
Best place for an answer to that is: the dealer himself.
He even maintains a thread in the dealer exchange.
 
I can't speak for NGK, but I do know that the dealer price (and thus MSRP) has increased on many items.

Tom
 
new claendar year with new catalogs, so I guess it's time for new prices, which rise over time with inflation, but you also have global issues like the value of the dollar versus the yen, metals availability, and so on.
 
I just looked at the Chris Reeve prices,

Sebenza 21 Large, $385

Sebenza 21 Small, $ 330.

Still the same prices. Did Chris move to an another country (no more US)?


Franco
 
I don't know about Reeve but speaking of framelocks, I just got a Byrd Catbyrd and it's very impressive for less than $30.
 
razorburn said:
Actually,MSRP's on just about everything has gone up.
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Yep, and package sizes in the grocery store have gotten smaller. Everyone is hurting more.

...Look on the bright side, you could be going to a local dealer where they actually sell knives like the Native IV and Caly 3 ZDP/CF at MSRP... Around 280 dollars! :eek:
 
I've noticed that the price has increased quite a bit at many places, across the board. Best example of this is that I bought a Kershaw RAM at a brick and mortar for 50 dollars before tax. This was a week ago. I dropped by the store again two days ago and the price was now 80 dollars. So that's a nice 50% (plus) increase in the span of about 7 days.
 
Take an economics course at your local junior college. There is a little thing called "inflation" that everyone has to deal with. Basically, it means that you have the same amount of money, but you can buy less with it. Companies like Spyderco have to raise prices on a regular basis to keep pace with it. Otherwise, in a few years they would be selling their knives for less than it cost to make them.
 
CombatGrappler said:
Take an economics course at your local junior college. There is a little thing called "inflation" that everyone has to deal with.
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Does it mean, there were no inflation in the region where Chris Reeve lives?

As far as I know Chris did not move his 'factory' to China in order to enhance profit. Interestingly enough, knifemakers who moved production to China raised the prices too.

A student taking course at junior college
 
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CombatGrappler said:
Take an economics course at your local junior college. There is a little thing called "inflation" that everyone has to deal with. Basically, it means that you have the same amount of money, but you can buy less with it. Companies like Spyderco have to raise prices on a regular basis to keep pace with it. Otherwise, in a few years they would be selling their knives for less than it cost to make them.
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Then later in the course you will learn that when times are hard the demand for non essential goods becomes much more elastic.

Just because you raise a price in no way means that you’re going to stay in business. Most of the time it means you will lose sales because not only is the demand lower but then even less people will buy a good because of the prices going up.

Were talking about knives here not things people need to live on like bread, milk, rice, gas, and electric.

Then even later in the course you will learn that you can operate between the break even and shutdown point while losing money.

The real question is will the price change be enough to prevent people from buying new knives from Spyderco? And why is Spyderco making the change?

I betting the people who work for Spyderco that specialize in marketing and economics have put much more thought into it than we have/will be able to.
 
depends, if CRK has been selling more units a year, they are increasing revenue without increasing per unit price. If the operation is efficient, they have stock on hand purchased at older/lower prices, own the property or their lease is structured favorably, and have not been increasing labor costs significantly, they could hold prices. Or, maybe they did increase slightly in dealer pricing, but kept their retail price the same, pressuring dealers to take a small dip in profit to remain competitive with the point of manufacture, though squeezing your main buyers isn't all that likely.
 
Prices historically go up in January for many(not all) knife manufacturers. Manufacturers will often hold published pricing throughout the calendar year on models, even though there may have been cost increases in labor and material. Dealers and distributors will often hold the old price for a while, working off the older pricing structures and existing inventory. Eventually, new product comes in at new pricing, forcing distributors and dealers to adjust their prices to the customer. Hope this helps.
md
 
The question isn't so much if MSRP has gone up but if the wholesale cost to the retailer has gone up as far as I'm concerned . . .
 
The easily predictable price bump in January should give us all an excuse to buy more Christmas presents for ourselves.

"Honey, I was just trying to save us money." :D

There I go again, the perpetual optimist!
 
noticed the price increase at knifeworks too. It's not too much of an increase but $10 on a $100 knife (caly 3) can't be ignored.
 
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