Survive! Knives Heads Up

Psybull said:
A bunch of gso's on the big auction site including a gso10 that does not have the flag etching on it, kind of interesting.
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Casinostocks said:
It's an earlier one with the Flag on the side of the pommel.
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Yup, first production GSO-10s have a tiny flag on the side of the pommel and no drainage channel in the sheath:

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Patriot Leather (Skystorm Leather) has no problem speaking on Bladeforums how he believes SURVIVE! is a poorly run company with a failing business model, so I feel fine not taking part in anything that gets him money.............. especially at those ridiculous prices.
 
Silver Needle said:
Patriot Leather (Skystorm Leather) has no problem speaking on Bladeforums how he believes SURVIVE! is a poorly run company with a failing business model, so I feel fine not taking part in anything that gets him money.............. especially at those ridiculous prices.
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Some of those who have degraded and denigrated Survive! on that infamous GB&U thread, seem to have absolutely ZERO issues with making a pretty healthy profit on GSOs on the Big Auction Site which incidentally some of those folks also hate on, unless they're using that site to their own advantage too. Buy low, sell high is no problem within capitalism but to act all benevolent and to pretend to be all about protecting a community of knife enthusiasts while show a different set of practices elsewhere, is the definition of hypocrisy!
 
Yes, how dare I have an opinion. I feel fine that I won't receive any of your money. It takes a very small minded person to think that everyone must have the same opinion as themselves. We have differing opinions about the SK business model. boo. freaking. hoo. You want to waste your time bashing me at every chance, have at it. Makes no difference to me. You like SK, good for you. I don't, more knives for everyone else.

I am sure Guy and Elle are quite capable at defending themselves if needed without your I need attention cheerleading from the sidelines.

I do not keep track of current resale values for each brand. Pricing was determined by a quick viewing of the recent completed listings and listing them accordingly. Supply and demand dictate what people will ultimately pay and all of them have a make offer attached which is useful to see what current market rate is. Since the 5.1, 6 and 7 sold in less than 10 hours of listing I guess I must not be too far off on the asking prices and the others will be adjusted as required. I care more about the space they have been occupying than the money which is just recycled into other knives that are more useful to us and the direction we are currently going.

Sorry if selling them all seems to offend some people.



Silver Needle said:
Patriot Leather (Skystorm Leather) has no problem speaking on Bladeforums how he believes SURVIVE! is a poorly run company with a failing business model, so I feel fine not taking part in anything that gets him money.............. especially at those ridiculous prices.
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Skystorm said:
Yes, how dare I have an opinion. I feel fine that I won't receive any of your money. It takes a very small minded person to think that everyone must have the same opinion as themselves. We have differing opinions about the SK business moodel. boo. freaking. hoo. You want to waste your time bashing me at every chance, have at it. Makes no difference to me. You like SK, good for you. I don't, more knives for everyone else.

I am sure Guy and Elle are quite capable at defending themselves if needed without your I need attention cheerleading from the sidelines.

I do not keep track of current resale values for each brand. Pricing was determined by a quick viewing of the recent completed listings and listing them accordingly. Supply and demand dictate what people will ultimately pay and all of them have a make offer attached which is useful to see what current market rate is. Since the 5.1, 6 and 7 sold in less than 10 hours of listing I guess I must not be too far off on the asking prices and the others will be adjusted as required. I care more about the space they have been occupying than the money which is just recycled into other knives that are more useful to us and the direction we are currently going.

Sorry if selling them all seems to offend some people.
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You can sell however you want. My problem isn't with our differing opinion, but how you communicate it. I don't think any more clarification is needed. I don't want to give you any business and you don't need business from me, I'm sure we can leave it at that. Thanks for stopping by and showing us what you're all about.
 
Well it looks like that BRAND NEW, UNUSED, factory 1st 4.1 finally sold for $175 on the Facebook page.
That thing sat on there for weeks even though it wasn't listed at RIDICULOUS eBay prices.
 
Silver Needle said:
Patriot Leather (Skystorm Leather) has no problem speaking on Bladeforums how he believes SURVIVE! is a poorly run company with a failing business model, so I feel fine not taking part in anything that gets him money.............. especially at those ridiculous prices.
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I was thinking something along the same lines today Silver when I saw all of his models up at one time. It would appear the backlash has caused him to walk away from building anymore leather for the GSO series. Or maybe, just maybe, he's lost enough business over the deal that he needs the money.

On another note, I respect the guys right to his opinion and I myself have been critical (along with MANY others) of the long wait times in the past. I think the difference is the way we handled it. IIRC, he was kind of an ass about the whole deal. Oh well, to each his own.

We'll see what they actually sell for. I'm interested in the 10.
 
Casinostocks said:
IMHO, it'll get worse for the secondary market as Survive!'s own production and fulfillment process ramps up. Unless one owns an old school rare GSO in M390, Elmax and numbered to boot, everything else which is old from 2012, 2013 and 2014 will not fetch the kind of lofty and ambitious prices it used to.
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Guess I better hang on to my GSO 4.1 in M390. In 18 years I can probably sell it and help my grandson through college. JK.:D

I love it and it's my go to hunting/camp knife. The 4.7 is what I'm beating on during the "testing" phase.
 
Hale Storm said:
Guess I better hang on to my GSO 4.1 in M390. In 18 years I can probably sell it and help my grandson through college. JK.:D

I love it and it's my go to hunting/camp knife. The 4.7 is what I'm beating on during the "testing" phase.
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How do you like the 4.7 so far Ronnie? I'm still waiting for my CruForgeV version.

I have done business with Sky in the past on the Fiddleback Flea Market, and I purchased a couple of sheaths from him for Fiddlebacks as well. His prices were in line as to what the market was bringing for those knives and sheaths at the time. I'm certain he has patterns for his GSO offerings in the sheath line, so he will be able to continue to offer them. I missed the entire incident you and Silver are referring to, and I am glad I did. Clearly I think it is in bad form to publicly put down a business in the way that he did. I do remember back in the general discussion forum another starting knife maker was doing a similar thing. That was in very bad form as he was a competitor.
 
McVeyMac said:
How do you like the 4.7 so far Ronnie? I'm still waiting for my CruForgeV version.

I have done business with Sky in the past on the Fiddleback Flea Market, and I purchased a couple of sheaths from him for Fiddlebacks as well. His prices were in line as to what the market was bringing for those knives and sheaths at the time. I'm certain he has patterns for his GSO offerings in the sheath line, so he will be able to continue to offer them. I missed the entire incident you and Silver are referring to, and I am glad I did. Clearly I think it is in bad form to publicly put down a business in the way that he did. I do remember back in the general discussion forum another starting knife maker was doing a similar thing. That was in very bad form as he was a competitor.
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I'm loving it so far. I did some heavy work with it not too long ago in repairing our dock that was damaged in a lake flood. I chopped the tops off of some posts that had been submerged for years. They felt like bricks when batoning them. I think I posted that short video. I know I posted pics in my "real world test" thread that I will add to once deer season rolls around and I'm in the woods ALOT the last few months of the year. More to come.......
 
Wrong, and wrong which is usually what happens when people assume things. :o

I have stated before that I would no longer be building sheaths for Survive knives. It's nothing personal, and not the only manufacturer that I removed. Sorry to disappoint but I haven't seen any loss in business from your supposed 'backlash' that consists of a couple forum members who have delusions of grandeur about the importance of their own biased opinion outside of their one little tiny corner of the internet.

Maybe instead of bad mouthing someone that you know absolutely nothing about you find more constructive things to do, like say, fix your web site?

I don't get all the fuss, Somebody sells a few knives, old models at that, and you go all to pieces over it. One, I didn't realize I needed some sort of SK group blessing to sell my own property at a completely different venue. Two, If they went for higher than you thought you would think that you guys would be happy of a strong secondary market, especially for the old models which many of you have and are not in the same league as the new, instead of complaining about it?


Hale Storm said:
I was thinking something along the same lines today Silver when I saw all of his models up at one time. It would appear the backlash has caused him to walk away from building anymore leather for the GSO series. Or maybe, just maybe, he's lost enough business over the deal that he needs the money.

On another note, I respect the guys right to his opinion and I myself have been critical (along with MANY others) of the long wait times in the past. I think the difference is the way we handled it. IIRC, he was kind of an ass about the whole deal. Oh well, to each his own.

We'll see what they actually sell for. I'm interested in the 10.
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It's nice having a 'heads up' thread to let people know where S!K's are popping up, best to not have it get locked up :)

There's a Necker II on the FB page, someone should buy it so I don't keep looking at it. I think I'm perfectly happy with the 2.7 but I keep looking at it anyways.
 
grogimus said:
It's nice having a 'heads up' thread to let people know where S!K's are popping up, best to not have it get locked up :)

There's a Necker II on the FB page, someone should buy it so I don't keep looking at it. I think I'm perfectly happy with the 2.7 but I keep looking at it anyways.
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I did my part on the 4.1. Couldn't resist it any longer at that ridiculously great value. Happy to remove the temptation from you blokes.

Survive... Heads Up... Let's do more of that here. What say ye? 😉

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forte_defense said:
I did my part on the 4.1. Couldn't resist it any longer at that ridiculously great value. Happy to remove the temptation from you blokes.

Survive... Heads Up... Let's do more of that here. What say ye? [emoji6]

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