Strider packaging

RiverRat84 said:
Fair enough man. I think blanket statements just rub me the wrong way. I enjoy every knife I've purchased and also value them. To me packaging is incidental. To others maybe it is a deal breaker. Different strokes.:thumbup:
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Haha, I have a way of accidentally pushing buttons. If I phrased things poorly, I apologize. Personally, I am more concerned about lock strength and safety, and actual cutting/slicing ability of the knife. It is difficult for me to fathom people spending hundreds of bucks on a knife they consider a "beater". Also difficult to understand why a company would be content to ship their beloved product in such a way, whether or not the customers wanted it. Simple appreciation goes a long way.
 
Packaging doesnt ever play into if I buy a knife or not. But it is nice when the company you buy from gives you some extras especially when your forking out the money that the two companies which are being talked about charge. Box or bag it doesnt make the knife itself any better. But when you spend your hard earned money with a company its nice to see a little customer appreciation with the purchase. Does crk have to give you a tool lube and cloth to sell their knives. No people would still buy them if they didnt. Its just a nice gesture from a company. Thats it. And for some people at that range it does make a difference. Especially when forking out 400-500 on a luxury item. I ve gotten 1000 dollar knives in paper towels. It didnt change the performance of the knife. But it did make me think for a minute wow 1000 and papertowel I guess he couldn't spare a 1.50 on a box and bubblewrap and is this what he thinks of his own product, its paper towel worthy. Different people expect different things for a certain amount money. If you dont care about it thats fine but you cant really knock other people for expecting a little more.
 
Seems like the real problem with the ziplocks is that if they are in a box with other ziplocked knives they will beat the heck out of each other. In your possession or even shipping to the dealer.. Which Strider used to cover up by turning it into a Maybe you aren't tough enough to use our beat to crap knives deal.. Which was/is ridiculous. Hell, I'm the guy Mick tried to tell that I drug a brand new knife behind my car when I sent it back to them because of damage it sustained in shipping to the dealer. Mick went off on me like he had never heard of one being banged up during shipping until the dealer I bought it from showed up and told Mick that a LOT of knives get messed up in their crappy bags. Like he didn't know... Haven't bought any Striders since but I still have the couple of perfect ones I either lucked into or sent back to Strider when new to have them make them right.
 
RemyKaze said:
The restaurant comparison earlier in the thread is really apt.
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I agree, but applied a different way it can go the other way.

Say there are 2 restaurants, one had great food and is located in a nice neighborhood with a large window up front and everything is "perfect". Another, is in a less nice neighborhood, perhaps located down a flight of stairs. The food is equally good, and the health inspector gave it an "A" so you know it's clean.

It's about the atmosphere. Neither is better than the other, just appeal to different people, or even the same people for different reasons.


If you absolutely need a Strider box, there are quite a few on DHGate and eBay. Some are even pretty fancy ;)
 
Topcatpt said:
Packaging doesnt ever play into if I buy a knife or not. But it is nice when the company you buy from gives you some extras especially when your forking out the money that the two companies which are being talked about charge.
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#StriderExtras!

 
NorthernSouthpaw said:
I think what people are trying to say is that, when they spend the amount of money that Strider charges for even a production model. the least a company could do is make it seem like they care how it is presented to the purchaser. When you go to an expensive restaurant do you expect the food to be served slopped all over a paper plate? Even if the food was delicious you would probably say "yes the food was great, but....." Does it mean you'll never go there again? No, you just were expecting a little flourish considering the amount of $ you are dropping. That is what is being said here. "The knives a great, but.....". People want to feel special. Not short bus and a hockey helmet special, but "Hey, I'm important" special. We all want that feeling. I just bought a Foursevens flashlight. I got it for around $60. When it arrived I actually stopped and admired the box for a few minutes. I read all the descriptions, played with the magnetic flap and actually showed the wife "hey, check this out".
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Great post, particularly the bolded part.
 
OilMan said:
Seems like the real problem with the ziplocks is that if they are in a box with other ziplocked knives they will beat the heck out of each other. In your possession or even shipping to the dealer.. Which Strider used to cover up by turning it into a Maybe you aren't tough enough to use our beat to crap knives deal.. Which was/is ridiculous. Hell, I'm the guy Mick tried to tell that I drug a brand new knife behind my car when I sent it back to them because of damage it sustained in shipping to the dealer. Mick went off on me like he had never heard of one being banged up during shipping until the dealer I bought it from showed up and told Mick that a LOT of knives get messed up in their crappy bags. Like he didn't know... Haven't bought any Striders since but I still have the couple of perfect ones I either lucked into it sent back to Strider when new to have them make them right.
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Sure they just toss them all together in flimsy plastic Ziploc bags, no padding or nothing in a big box, loose so they rattle about ?
 
Is this a question? If so I'm pretty sure they pack all of them tightly but it's still bag on bag contact and no matter how tightly, but not separated, they pack them they still rub each other.
 
OilMan said:
Is this a question? If so I'm pretty sure they pack all of them tightly but it's still bag on bag contact and no matter how tightly, but not separated, they pack them they still rub each other.
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You seem to have first hand experience with the packaging and unpacking of Strider knives direct from the factory. I myself can't imagine a company packing new knives in baggies against each other, no paper inbetween.
 
Strider's solution to the concern of buyers though is brilliant, don't fix the packaging for a minimal cost, pass the buck on to the consumer by saying F/F on a $500+ hard use knife is for sallys.. :-)
 
OilMan said:
Strider's solution to the concern of buyers though is brilliant, don't fix the packaging for a minimal cost, pass the buck on to the consumer by saying F/F on a $500+ hard use knife is for sallys.. :-)
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They apparently must bother to place a sheet or two of packing paper between them now. Mine came without any shipping damage.
 
Not all of them were damaged and this would have been 3 -5 years ago. Perhaps they changed how they ship them when they finally started to make the lock face interface correctly?
 
jill jackson said:
You seem to have first hand experience with the packaging and unpacking of Strider knives direct from the factory. I myself can't imagine a company packing new knives in baggies against each other, no paper inbetween.
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Strider is a different breed of person. Im not sure how familiar you are with the mick and his company or if you have seen his old website when it was up but it really doesnt surprise me if mick did in fact pack his knives that way. He has always operated from the perspective that his knives are tools and not trinkets. Function has always been first to him over aesthetics. If you got a strider with an off center blade his website would say that the knife was set up that way for proper lock up. And that even if they could center the blade that they would rather they didnt to ensure a properly working product. If you ever see mick at a knife show and find a knife on his table that isnt 100% pretty bring it to his attention. I can guarantee he will be less than concerned. In his eyes it would seem that it doesnt matter if his product has finish issues as long as it functions as that was his motivation for making it. I used to love reading his old website. I was like a narcissist how to handbook.

OilMan said:
Not all of them were damaged and this would have been 3 -5 years ago. Perhaps they changed how they ship them when they finally started to make the lock face interface correctly?
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which for years mick defended his position that his lock faces as the ONLY proper way to do it. My how people change.
 
That was pretty much my experience with Mick also but, to his credit, he still fixed or remedied every problem I've had with Strider Knives... just hated sending brand new knives back in to have issues corrected that should have never made it out of the door in the first place.
 
Scouter 27, I used my words poorly. I meant the one true "custom" knife I've ordered from a different knifemaker came in a padded case. I thought it was nice, and it was a mastersmith knife that cost less than my Strider's. I haven't had many other mid-tech except for an XM-18. It was used and I didn't expect a box/case.
 
I do not miss what I do not expect.

Boxes are indeed huge for some in this hobby. There are folks who never cut only looky, flip & absolutely will not have a knife that has even seen daylight. Some people had a cow over CRKs new packaging. Completely wrecked their Feng Shui.
 
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