The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Yep. Now, imagine, Spark comes in here next week and says Bill is doing a run of say, #77s just for us. We'll have to upgrade servers again just to handle the traffic of all the folks who'll come outta the woodwork!
And the barrage of useless posts trying to achieve the required post count
As long as they make 1,000 of them and make the price $200 we'll be OK.
Some us won't.
Hey there! I resemble that post!And the barrage of useless posts trying to achieve the required post count
Oh I’d have gotten in trouble for calling them out right then and there.Ya can't really use serial numbers for accurate tracking. I've bought every BF knife since 2010 and have gifted them all except 2020, 2022, 2023.
Here's one for ya. I bought this 2021 Blade Forum knife and made a general announcement that I was going to gift it. A member sent me a PM asking for it for a friend so I sent the knife to him. Lo and behold the guy he gave the knife to made a post later on and bad mouthed Blade Forums.
I heard that tooWHAT?! BILL'S DOING A RUN OF 77'S FOR BLADE FORUMS?!
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Ya can't really use serial numbers for accurate tracking. I've bought every BF knife since 2010 and have gifted them all except 2020, 2022, 2023.
Here's one for ya. I bought this 2021 Blade Forum knife and made a general announcement that I was going to gift it. A member sent me a PM asking for it for a friend so I sent the knife to him. Lo and behold the guy he gave the knife to made a post later on and bad mouthed Blade Forums.
AdamFuzzyballs
in a forum GAW, and that same year I bought #42 from another user to send to
Gary W. Graley
. I think I also gave away 422 and 624E from 2023 on the forum?
I assume you can't buy multiples or something?EngrSorenson I was not referencing anyone’s post.
I was just stating that we don’t need to try to control the secondary market for the future Blade Forum knives. They are currently selling for under what we paid for them. The 2023 Blade Forum knives are not hot on the secondary. Just because someone lists a knife for $324 on eBay doesn’t mean that it will sell. The ones I have seen sell on the BF exchange and on Facebook groups were all right at $200 range. Currently, people listing these knives are not even getting that. Again these knives are not highly in demand anymore. This was a very large run of 600. So all we have to do to combat flippers is to order a very large future run of BF knives to keep the demand low. Also, it helped that the 2023 BF knife was still available for sale until very recently.
Also, the argument that no one should ever be able to sell the knives is flawed for two reasons. First, it used to be that we bought the knives for under $100 and since people volunteered their time and effort it was disrespectful to sell them to try to make a profit. But now it is not really an issue because Blade Forums definitely did not charge us the bare minimum for that knife. The recent Great Eastern Cutlery Club FB group knife was only $150 and it also was a two blade knife. So BF is making some money on these knives now. Secondly, it is a waste of time trying to track down who traded a knife or sold it. We can not possibly know who sold something at the correct price and then two owners later it got into the hands of a person selling it for profit. Once it leaves the original owners hands, the history is lost.
