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Standard (Medium) Chopper or Lightweight: Which and Why?

91bravo said:
I’ve seen folks buy multiples in a pre order and turn around sell them for almost double when they finally get it in hand. I hate this, as I order knives because I want to use them!
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Flippers swoop into a sale and grab up the work, causing the sale to end in seconds, and then sell it (with markup) to the same people who attended the sale to get those knives in the first place. They're skimming and adding no value.

A pre-order is different. The order will be open long enough that anybody that wants a knife can get what they want. The "flipper" isn't causing anybody any harm. At this point, they're more of an investor than a flipper. There's nothing wrong with buying a knife and then eventually selling it. There is something wrong with putting yourself into the sales equation and making money off of someone else because you created scarcity, such as Friday sales that end in seconds.

Sales and pre-orders are fundamentally different in this regard. There's really no such thing as a flipper in a pre-order, unless it's like one of those really brief pre-orders, but there hasn't been very many of those.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Flippers swoop into a sale and grab up the work, causing the sale to end in seconds, and then sell it (with markup) to the same people who attended the sale to get those knives in the first place. They're skimming and adding no value.

A pre-order is different. The order will be open long enough that anybody that wants a knife can get what they want. The "flipper" isn't causing anybody any harm. At this point, they're more of an investor than a flipper. There's nothing wrong with buying a knife and then eventually selling it. There is something wrong with putting yourself into the sales equation and making money off of someone else because you created scarcity, such as Friday sales that end in seconds.

Sales and pre-orders are fundamentally different in this regard. There's really no such thing as a flipper in a pre-order, unless it's like one of those really brief pre-orders, but there hasn't been very many of those.
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Thanks for the perspective! I’ll be ordering a back up MC!
 
JACKMANDU said:
What’s 1/32 between friends?
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