Speculators, Sprints and Telling Others What to Do

A regular CC contract goes through an approved dealer that will take delivery of the numbered knives direct from Spyderco and send the member that knife as would to a regular customer. The specific options of the CC level determines the variations the member will receive. The price is at a consistent level and not determined by the dealer. This is how I understand the CC logistics.

A "Sprint" CC would have to be some variation of it. Otherwise, it would create an enormous burden on Spyderco and/or dealer. If there was such a thing, I would sign up for it.
 
Posted this in the other thread, but since this is the same thread, I'll post it here, too. I,f I had to choose between a society where people can be speculators and make a buck and a society where someone prevents people from speculating to make a buck, I'd choose the former.
 
JNewell said:
Posted this in the other thread, but since this is the same thread, I'll post it here, too. I,f I had to choose between a society where people can be speculators and make a buck and a society where someone prevents people from speculating to make a buck, I'd choose the former.
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Well said. I couldn't agree more. :thumbup:
 
I'm in favor of anything that allows me to get the new brown millie without paying an arm and a leg.
 
RevDevil said:
Deacon, to me it would just make more sense to offer a another level of the Collectors Club, specifically designed for "Sprint Runs", you get 1 knife guaranteed. I cannot say how the details would be laid out, because I have no clue how teh CC works or what it would entail logistically. A slight modification of an already implemented system makes more sense than reinventing the wheel (so to speak, probably not an ideal choice of words).
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That might work for collectors, who'd probably keep most and for whom selling off the few they didn't would not be difficult, but it wouldn't really benefit those interested in only one, or a couple, out of the dozens of Sprints coming out each year. It might also necessitate a change in the total number of slots in the club, presently limited to 200, many of which are already filled. Finally there'd be little to prevent someone bent on purchasing for profit from acquiring multiple CC accounts.

JNewell said:
Posted this in the other thread, but since this is the same thread, I'll post it here, too. I,f I had to choose between a society where people can be speculators and make a buck and a society where someone prevents people from speculating to make a buck, I'd choose the former.
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No argument there, but better than either would be a society which neither prohibits nor encourages speculators.
 
If you honestly cared enough and wanted a sprint enough, you would put in the tiny bit of extra time and effort to place a preorder early. Most of the time you will get what you seek. Its the people who ONLY preorder from the most popular and cheapest places that end up losing out. Its like people want to be spoon fed sprints. The sprint situation isnt perfect for everyone but whos to say trying to improve it wouldnt negatively affect others instead. I feel like some people also refuse to buy sprints until others have already done so and given favorable opinions before having the balls to pull the trigger on it. Obviously you will lose out then.
 
Well, the good thing is that we're now (today is 5/17) only four days away from that perfect world! :D

The Deacon said:
That might work for collectors, who'd probably keep most and for whom selling off the few they didn't would not be difficult, but it wouldn't really benefit those interested in only one, or a couple, out of the dozens of Sprints coming out each year. It might also necessitate a change in the total number of slots in the club, presently limited to 200, many of which are already filled. Finally there'd be little to prevent someone bent on purchasing for profit from acquiring multiple CC accounts.

No argument there, but better than either would be a society which neither prohibits nor encourages speculators.
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I'm squarely in the camp of folks who are interested in these sprints primarily because we enjoy using new/high-performance steels
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That's me. I just bought one of the new tan Manix knives from bento. I got in line, I paid my money, I got my knife, I put it right into my pocket and started carrying it. I didn't buy it to be some NIB collector knife.

If we really want to stop some of this deliberate buying of large numbers of limited knives simply for resale, resellers could limit such things to one per customer. Sure, people could wiggle around that to a degree but it would sure make it a lot harder to buy 20 of them or something.

The only reason I even suggest it is because of what I just went through to get floor seats to a Tulsa Keith Urban concert. (Wife's birthday present.) The local media had a story about how this concert was going to be "different" because they were going to only charge $27-$57 for seats. But I was online on day one looking for them. All you could get were the very far away cheap seats. Obviously a whole lot of them were purchased in bulk for resale. I had to buy my two up close floor tickets on ebay for nearly $300. It's a show she will talk about and remember for the rest of her life so I was OK with spending the money. But it is frustrating that the vast majority of the money went straight into the hands of a scalper.

Gregg
 
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