Should we start a new sub forum for people to complain about prices?

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I have a very simple view on this:
If I need a cutting tool I can get one for a very affordable price. It will cut what needs to be cut.
I don't pay for the ability to cut something, but for a hobby & my imagined wish list. (looks, steel, ergos...etc)

--> Hobbys are always as expensive as you are willing (and able) to afford. You know this, the knifemaker knows this, the vendor knows this as well...
 
J. Doyle said:
I think a prerequisite to complaining about the cost of a knife should be the complainer has to try making one himself first.

Especially a folder.....since most of these complaints regard folding knives.
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I like this idea, everyone should make a knife!
After entering the arena...... and spending 10-20 hours on a knife....... I think most knives should cost More... I'm surprised they don't.
 
Crag the Brewer said:
I like this idea, everyone should make a knife!
After entering the arena...... and spending 10-20 hours on a knife....... I think most knives should cost More... I'm surprised they don't.
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I made throwing knives and big choppers out of old leaf springs as a kid. They were pretty awful but they looked like knives and more or less functioned like knives. I probably could have bought a knife for the cost of all the cutoff wheels and grinding disks and bandaids I went through.

Someday when I have time I will make a knife properly We have m uh of the stuff needed at our makerspace.
 
I do believe there will come a time when those that think nothing of dropping 300-500 dollars on a knife will come to an end.. 🤔
There was a time when I had a pocket full of extra cash on me all the time..
Then I retired!! It will happen to all sooner or later..;)
John :)
 
jmh33 said:
I do believe there will come a time when those that think nothing of dropping 300-500 dollars on a knife will come to an end.. 🤔
There was a time when I had a pocket full of extra cash on me all the time..
Then I retired!! It will happen to all sooner or later..;)
John :)
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Or, if inflation keeps going the way it has been lately, $300 will buy you a Mora.
 
It's the same problem everywhere, here too we have a group of knife auctions and as soon as the prices don't go up. The critics fuse
I say that everything is open to criticism or questionable except the prices. The work of others is priceless ...
 
I buy a knife as a tool, won't pay more than I have too. I don't buy knives because of the name stamped on them.
 
Complaining by enough people will influence companies' pricing; Not buying by enough people will bring the prices down.

Should we create a subforum for people who complain other people who complain?
 
J. Doyle said:
I think a prerequisite to complaining about the cost of a knife should be the complainer has to try making one himself first.

Especially a folder.....since most of these complaints regard folding knives.
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AND pass a spine whack test.
 
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sharp_edge said:
Complaining by enough people will influence companies' pricing; Not buying by enough people will bring the prices down.

Should we create a subforum for people who complain other people who complain?
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Complaining will not effect pricing one iota if people are still buying. Sometimes raising prices creates more desire for the product. See Grey Goose vodka, for example.
 
DMG said:
Complaining will not effect pricing one iota if people are still buying. Sometimes raising prices creates more desire for the product. See Grey Goose vodka, for example.
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That is a big IF. If I am new to a knife and I see many people are complaining about its price (i.e., not worth the price), that will certainly affect my purchase decision.
 
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