So can someone explain....

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Triton

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Can someone please explain to me how it works out in the exchange that there seems like there is often more than one of the same knife up for sale by different sellers? I have seen it more times than I can count. Today there are two Gareth bull trappers in the custom section. Yesterday there were two benchmade 940s in the production section. There is never a lone fallkniven knife and usually it is the same model. The same goes for Randalls. What gives?
 
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I have often been motivated by the levelbof interest and price of a knife I see listed to then list mine after the other sells. To me listing the same model at the same time as someone else just seems bad form. Kind of torpedos another sale
 
Triton said:
Can someone please explain to me how it works out in the exchange that there seems like there is often more than one of the same knife up for sale by different sellers? I have seen it more times than I can count. Today there are two Gareth bull trappers in the custom section. Yesterday there were two benchmade 940s in the production section. There is never a lone fallkniven knife and usually it is the same model. The same goes for Randalls. What gives?
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940 is a common knife so why wouldn’t there be more than one listed? The Gareth Bull trappers were probably just released as a batch so that is why a few people who just got them want to flip them.
 
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Yeah, I suspect batches are released and people receive and either don't like them or want to flip them.
 
Some knives are just very popular and are always coming up on Exchange.

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Likely cognitive bias. The times when you see doubles are memorable, the times you don’t are not. In retrospect, the doubles seem very common. It’s like when you buy a car, and then you see that same model everywhere you look, when you never noticed before.

On the other hand, it would be interesting to see listing frequencies. I’ll bet you could correlate it against releases and restocking at major retailers. Or maybe against IRS debts coming due.
 
Mostly random chance, sometimes the one thread may lead another person to consider selling theirs also.
You will often see multiples of something new. There can be a lot of turn over until the knives find a steady home.
 
I agree with the car analogy, experienced it myself.
Imagine what would appear if people began selling their SAK Spartans...
 
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