The price of fun is going UUUUUP

I suspect somebody paid more than they thought they would on that one.

Sometimes a bidder bids quite a bit higher than they expect to pay......assuming that nobody else is going to bid anywhere near that high and that they will actually get it for quite a bit less. The intent is to be sure of getting the item.

Then......along comes trouble......another guy with the same strategy plugs in a high number for the same reason at the last minute.

Ka-ching.
 
well my take on it
1st there are 3 bidders that wanted this knife badly- why?
2ed it is NEW IN BOX .. this is verry rare to find
3ed it has ALL the paper work !!
4th the provenance is with it !!
2 and 3 and 4 make this an investment grade knife..
that there are 3 that want it over 400$ worth
says it is highly needed in several collections
this will insure the price on it will never decrease much!
this is only the 2ed time i have seen a NEW 124
and the last about 5 years ago went for over 350$
the first place looser i am sure is wishing he bid another 25$
 
Ugly bugger, isn't it.

I sure wouldn't want it in my house.

Chip flint, mirror blade, eagle head.........yikes.
 
t\Hay! This knife looks much better in hand !
i got to handle it jest before it was submitted to buck..
i was even offered 2ed chance to buy it if the first fellow did not!!
but could not afford it !!

heck if a 110 was more then 50$ or so i would not have any bucks!!
is why i only have a few of what i want ...
 
334dave said:
well my take on it
1st there are 3 bidders that wanted this knife badly- why?
2ed it is NEW IN BOX .. this is verry rare to find
3ed it has ALL the paper work !!
4th the provenance is with it !!
2 and 3 and 4 make this an investment grade knife..
that there are 3 that want it over 400$ worth
says it is highly needed in several collections
this will insure the price on it will never decrease much!
this is only the 2ed time i have seen a NEW 124
and the last about 5 years ago went for over 350$
the first place looser i am sure is wishing he bid another 25$
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So Dave I had to go look at this knife and go look at my 124 which is also NIB and with all the paperwork. I did see that yes there were 3 Joe's that bid over $400. That suggests that maybe there is something about this knife that's particularily interesting and collectable.

I paid $165 about a year ago for mine and its mint in every respect. My knife came out of an old hardware store in San Juan P.R. It does have San Juan Supply penned on the box but this eBay one's box has writing on it too. My knife looks exactly the same but the box is a one piece instead of a two piece. But my sheath is different. It looks like this:
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So Dave is this auction knife so expensive just because its a 70's knife only? Maybe its the power of 440c? I would say mine is early 80's so its only 2-3 years newer. Didn't they stop with the Micarta in 1981 (again with the move to the new plant)??

Anyway, it was fun pulling to big ole Mama out and looking at her.
 
I still say it's a case of "when poor bidding strategies collide."

The seller made out like a champ.

The auction winner was the loser. The runner-up is saying "Whew!"

:D
 
well that was jest my take on it
i dont nessarly agree with the bidders..as to worth
had i been a 124 collector i might have gone to 230 or so..
as to if there is some thing we missed on this i dont know..
i for one did not see any single thing to increase worth over 300
but who know
my thoughts were on if i was a 124 person why would i bid that much..
i have several 124's i think i may let go
have let some good ones go already..
 
Yes, there's really no way we can ever know what happened.

I just today gave up on serious consideration of e-Bay buying because things I've been interested in have been going real high.

I suspect there are a lot of grumpy old codgers like myself who are willing to spend a little more right at this time because they can justify it as, "Well, that's my Christmas present!"

I'll wait until January when they come to their senses.

:D
 
The fact that three people bid over $400 is something to me.
If it was just two going at it, I'd buy the BG42's theory but.....
Anyway, the big micarta 124's are awsome. The 7/8ths one that got made latter are nice but just not the same.
 
Sounds to me like a couple of bidders got caught up in a bidding war against each other. I've seen it happen often on items I had a bid on.
 
Flat, In Re: "big micarta 124's are awsome. The 7/8ths one that got made latter are nice but just not the same..."

Could you elaborate on that a little, I just measured mine, there is a difference of 3/16 inches in blade length. Is that the 7/8th that your refering to, or is it just manufactoring tolerance? BTW, there is no date stamp on either, but one (the shorter) has the lanyard hole, and the BCCI history site says that is the earlier model.
 
Snotwad said:
Flat, In Re: "big micarta 124's are awsome. The 7/8ths one that got made latter are nice but just not the same..."

Could you elaborate on that a little, I just measured mine, there is a difference of 3/16 inches in blade length. Is that the 7/8th that your refering to, or is it just manufactoring tolerance? BTW, there is no date stamp on either, but one (the shorter) has the lanyard hole, and the BCCI history site says that is the earlier model.
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Jerry that's what I was referring too. The newer pattern is just smaller. To characterize it as 7/8ths was probably not fair. I do prefer the full size original :):D
 
Well, maybe the pictures and camera angles are misleading, but I've seen pics of new and old 124s that would lead one to believe that 7/8s is fairly close to the downsizing.....not just blade, but I mean the whole knife seems visibly smaller.

I suppose somebody will provide dimensions.
 
Also, I just got around to really examining the bidding sequence on the knife in question and it seems to me this didn't go at all like I was thinking.

Looks to me like two other bidders (one, mostly) were creeping up on the winner in the last 15 minutes and everybody (including the winner) knew it was going well over $400 at that point.

Facing the pain, they were......and not flinching.

So, my theory of colliding snipers was totally wrong.

This was a case of some serious collectors knowingly putting out serious money to get bragging rights on owning a really high-grade example of a knife.

Glad I'm just an accumulator and not a serious collector.

Somebody got hisself a real nice (though painfully costly) Christmas present.
 
334dave said:
well my take on it
1st there are 3 bidders that wanted this knife badly- why?
2ed it is NEW IN BOX .. this is verry rare to find
3ed it has ALL the paper work !!
4th the provenance is with it !!
2 and 3 and 4 make this an investment grade knife..
that there are 3 that want it over 400$ worth
says it is highly needed in several collections
this will insure the price on it will never decrease much!
this is only the 2ed time i have seen a NEW 124
and the last about 5 years ago went for over 350$
the first place looser i am sure is wishing he bid another 25$
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I'm with 334 on this one! The 2 piece box with all the paperwork is worth more than the knife on this one. I do think the final $$$$ was to high....but, I'm not the one who decided that on this auction (the wind was blowing hard for these guys).

G your NIB 124 is not in the same league as this one. No two piece box as yours is newer, your sheath is not the swinging belt loop version and your sheath has lots of rubbing....apples to oranges.
jb4570
 
JB,

That was what I was saying....same knife (3 years difference, maybe different steels) but different sheath and different box. It's all good with me. I VERY OK with my $165 1981 version. The thing is about eBay...who knows how knives, boxes, sheaths all get mixed and matched. :)
 
Screaming Eagle said:
Hmmnnn....take a look at this one. Funny, no bidders yet...

http://cgi.ebay.com/BUCK-CUSTOM-124...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5ad4531bff
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I spoke to the fellow who has the knife on ebay. I told him that I had seen one just like this that is in a collection and had even be displayed at a show.

see post #11 in the attached thread
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=585534&highlight=124

I guess the handle on one is Elk and Moose on the other...therefore..."one of a Kind"....sort of!
jb4570
 
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