The Spur is one tremendously underrated and under-appreciated model. It's a fantastic cutter and is especially well-suited for hunting applications. With all of that said, you paid a pretty hefty price for that knife but one that was pretty close to it's original retail.
There has been a "new old stock" hoard of Spurs that was discovered and are now filtering onto eBay. Seems like about every week there is a new-in-the-box Spur being offered - most of them by the same dealer. I picked one up a few months ago on eBay for about $65. The original Spur was a short-lived model. Only one run of 1200 pieces was made. There were some financial difficulties in producing it as well as the fact that it was pretty much a duplicate of the C04 Executive model. If you compare the two, the handle shapes are nearly a spot-on match. In 2004, the Spur was done as a Sprint Run without the Kraton on the clip. And on the Sprint Run knife the Kraton on the handle was gray in color instead of black.
Given the limited production of the Spur, I foresee prices on them continuing to rise. Now is definitely the time to be putting them away. Carry it, use it, enjoy it. The C32 Spur is one of Spyderco's finest designs. In another week you won't miss the money, but you'll never regret picking up this Spur.
