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That look when you tell someone you spent more than $50+ on a knife....
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You havent been pm2 shopping recently, have you? The absolute cheapest you can get em new nowadays is 120. But that's just what ive seen, maybe Im wrong.
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Unless the person you are talking to is seriously frugal nearly everyone you encounter pays more money for things they care about. People who have a passion for a particular interest will always seek out something better and pay more for it. When I encounter people who scoff at how much I spend on my knives they are usually friends or family that have their own spending habits that others wont understand. Knowing this gives you an advantage. You simply need to get them to be able to relate through their own interests. For instance when my mother would find out how much a knife cost I always pointed to either her collection of 30 purses of 50 pairs of shoes and the conversation ended quickly. My father it was his hard cover book collection. People will always raise an eyebrow to what they dont understand. The irony is that nearly everyone has bad spending habit like our knife hobby but because it makes sense to them they dont make the connection until you point it out to them. You will occasionally get someone who says "thats different" to which you only need to say "why because its YOUR business and not mine"? Best way to argue is to remove the element that you are arguing about. And if you show a person that your difference is really your greatest similarity then you end it quickly.
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You are indeed. Look a little harder and you can get one for under $110 right now. But yeah it's damn near impossible to find it for under $100 at this time
Hear, hear
And if you don't know what interests they have, chances are you don't care about their opinion/mood regarding your passion for knives.and you can't even touch a dlc/camo for less than 140
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Snap on tools I cannot believe how highly priced they are, but I guess some people need good quality as a mechanic, ill stick to my craftsmen though
If they ask I tell them. I have an eye for value and if I see the value in an expensive knife that I want, I will buy it. I'm debt free at 34 (have been for a while) and will effectively retire this year. I still spend less on my hobbies each month than the average American spends on their monthly credit card bill. I'm used to people not understanding anything about my lifestyle.
Many would scoff at a 60k diesel truck. But it will go for more than 500k miles and gets much better gas mileage. Value is totally differnt than price. So few understand this today
Many would scoff at a 60k diesel truck. But it will go for more than 500k miles and gets much better gas mileage. Value is totally differnt than price. So few understand this today
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Totally different levels, craftsman : snap-on as Buck : CRK
not that craftsman is bad, but they are on a totally different level.
Not to mention snap-on will replace any hand tool at any time zero questions/cost. Try wearing your mechanic uniform into a sears and getting a tool replaced, they won't do it (you'll have to go back the next shift in street clothes), happened to me a few times. Craftsman tools are for the "home mechanic" and are very good quality but snap-on are professional tools for professional wrenches.
There's also a snap-on guy that brings comes to you once a week and even offers a line of credit, try getting the sears man to come to you at your workplace
Another thing: at 19 years old Snap-on gave me a $7500 line of credit (which I instantly maxed out NOT including a box), at that time the only other credit I was able to get was a $250 credit card. Again snap-on/matco/MAC/CW is a completely different level from craftsman & Irwin/dewalt.
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I've never cared what people thought about how much I spend on something. I have a relative that was always horrified that I'd spend $400-$1600 on a knife or upwards of $8,000 for a firearm, yet he'd spend $3-$4,000 on car stereo equipment every time he bought a new vehicle.
I had a guy in a gun shop once tell me that I was STUPID for spending $8,000 for a new rifle. It wasn't five minutes later I overheard him telling another patron that he'd just bought a new bass boat for $42,000 just because it matched the color of his $50,000 truck. I then asked him which was more stupid, the money he spent on the boat or the money I spent on the rifle.
He couldn't answer that.
I had a guy in a gun shop once tell me that I was STUPID for spending $8,000 for a new rifle. It wasn't five minutes later I overheard him telling another patron that he'd just bought a new bass boat for $42,000 just because it matched the color of his $50,000 truck. I then asked him which was more stupid, the money he spent on the boat or the money I spent on the rifle.
He couldn't answer that.
when I started I refused to drink into the snap on kool aid, but last 2 years ive started drinking. Its delicious! I hardly just buy a single set or single piece, usually i will buy in when its a special deal. Like a buy the metric set get the SAE set free. I do have a lot of craftsmen, but if you go look lately they are slowly being switched over to made in china. I bought some basic ratchets 6 years ago when I started at the dealership. They were made in the USA. last time I checked around this past xmas, the same exact wrench is now made in china and the same price. Even holding a snap on wrench or socket you tell its nicer in your hand than a craftsman. Kinda of like holding a fleamarket chinese knife then picking up a kershaw or benchmade, they might have the same profile but will feel different in your hand. Im glad the tool trucks only sell the under $90 kershaws, if they sold ZTs id be in debt to them for a long time.
So I guess the statement pretty much goes with everything, and its basically point of view.... My uncle just bought a 2014 Land Rover loaded for $110,000, I couldn't believe it. I mean if I had the kind of money, it sure wouldn't go to a Land Rover. My other uncle bought a Porsche 911 turbo for $160,000 new back in 2007, again, I would've bought something other than a Porsche for $160,000, for example a lambo
, there's some stuff I guess I'll never understand.I agree with you, much better quality, and a huge difference. But just don't understand why a wrench set would be $300 for 10-12 wrenches or so, I'm not very up to date with their prices but in that general area I assume. I would spend money on snap-on for more complicated items, like ratchets, but not wrenches. How do you manage to break a steel wrench in the first place?
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I mean no disrespect by this but have you worked in the field long? This isn't like working on your car at home where if a bolt is hard to get you can go inside and have a soda and relax while the PB blaster works, you gotta get the job done 5-minutes ago if you want to make any profit. Double wrenchin' is a daily occurrence, so are cheater pipes, wrenches break all the time. I've literally snapped a 24mm and a 1-1/8" wrench in half. I've also cracked the box end of several more.
Tell the sears could get guy your ratchet is broke cause you stuck a 36" cheater pipe on the end of it watch how fast he hands you your broken ratchet back. Tell the snap-on guy he'll laugh and ask if you got the bolt off while installing the rebuild kit.
I have no problem with craftsman, about 20% of my hand tools are craftsman (snap on =65-70%, MAC & Cornwell the other ~10%) and they are good tools but I flat out refuse to use their ratchets or any sockets other than shallow 6-point any more because of how bad the quality has gotten in the past 10 years. I do still have a 1' long 1/2" drive craftsman ratchet that's never needs rebuilt but all their newer ratchets are horrible.
My favorite two tools I own are my >15 year old 16" 3/8 drive MAC ratchet (only needed rebuilt 2 times) and my 3/8" drive flex-head snap-on ratchet (only even reeded rebuilt once after I took a tire off with it just to see of it would do it). Even if I'm going over to a buddies house to help out who has all the tools we need I still take those two ratchets with me.
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I like to buy, pick it up before anybody knows, play with it in private, and after a while enter it into the rotation. Sometimes I still get the 'you got another knife . . . how much did it cost this time' look. It's been a long time since I've bought a knife under $50, so there is no real hiding that though!
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Trust me, they can be rehabilitated. Just a couple years ago, my grandfather couldn't believe I'd spent 80$ on a Manix 2, and now he owns two of my customs, at a *slightly* discounted family rate of course