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The Impulsive Buy
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Impulse? We don't need no stinking impulse. We see, we like, we buy. Where's the impulse in that?
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The "need" is not just a feeling. 
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Going to a knifeshow is not an impulsive thing for me. I know about it weeks ahead of time, and I only take as much money with me as I intend to spend. I know I'll see something that NEEDS to come home with me. 
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Armand said:What causes knifenuts to buy on impulse in knifeshows
Too much money, when I go to a show it takes me forever to buy I mull over every knife, I research the makers and the retailers so I have a good idea of the going prices are, I agonize over every penny I have to spend, sometimes I just window shop, there are no impulse buys when I make a knife purchase, I pretty much know what I'm commin' home with.
Now yard sales, estate auctions, and flea markets, there's an impulse buy, still that's usually governed by the funds in my pocket.
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Have you ever seen a shark "feeding frenzy"? Is quite simmilar. A bunch of knifenuts in an enclosed space full of chum (knives).
is when you buy something that you do not really intend to buy. You just buy it, because you think it is a very good deal :thumbup: It happened to me several times 
It's not just at shows 
Or knives, for the most part I would coin it "perceived need" If it's like me, when I find one that catches my eye, my thinking sort of goes along the line of "Hey, that's a nice knife, I can use it for doing..........." The reality, of course, is that any of my other 80 - 90+ folders would probably get the the job done easily as well. I have the same line of thinking with tools. Now, of course, this is very different to the the standard strategy of buying with a purpose - like collecting:thumbup:
My wife, when she really needs to make a point, is quite blunt about this, the odd time, though she does the same thing with her scrapbooking supplies (Heaven forbid I return the reality check - "Until death do us part would take on a whole new meaning ) My first experience with this was actually a long time ago when I started fly fishing. Of course, in the learning phase, I was catching everything but fish. I decided that better equipment was the answer and went out and dropped about $500 CDN on a new Orvis flyrod, of course, just for the browns on the Bow River. The response from my wife went sort of to the effect of "So.....you spent $500 on a fly rod that will probably catch nothing. Your $50 one catches nothing every bit as well" I'm bracing myself one of these on the pool cue I just bought )
- gord
Or knives, for the most part I would coin it "perceived need" If it's like me, when I find one that catches my eye, my thinking sort of goes along the line of "Hey, that's a nice knife, I can use it for doing..........." The reality, of course, is that any of my other 80 - 90+ folders would probably get the the job done easily as well. I have the same line of thinking with tools. Now, of course, this is very different to the the standard strategy of buying with a purpose - like collecting:thumbup: My wife, when she really needs to make a point, is quite blunt about this, the odd time, though she does the same thing with her scrapbooking supplies (Heaven forbid I return the reality check - "Until death do us part would take on a whole new meaning
) My first experience with this was actually a long time ago when I started fly fishing. Of course, in the learning phase, I was catching everything but fish. I decided that better equipment was the answer and went out and dropped about $500 CDN on a new Orvis flyrod, of course, just for the browns on the Bow River. The response from my wife went sort of to the effect of "So.....you spent $500 on a fly rod that will probably catch nothing. Your $50 one catches nothing every bit as well" I'm bracing myself one of these on the pool cue I just bought )- gord
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If I take the trouble to go to a knife show, I bring:
1. enough money to pay for the knives on order that I will pick up.
2. enough money to buy a couple of knives from makers that I know that will have great knives that I want.
3. some extra money for that maker or dealer who has that fantastic knife that I cannot do without--that was completely unexpected.
All three of those are the reasons to go to a knife show.
In addition to the great people there, of course.
1. enough money to pay for the knives on order that I will pick up.
2. enough money to buy a couple of knives from makers that I know that will have great knives that I want.
3. some extra money for that maker or dealer who has that fantastic knife that I cannot do without--that was completely unexpected.
All three of those are the reasons to go to a knife show.
In addition to the great people there, of course.