Wal Mart Native!

Price is back to ~60 at new graham. Called because it was sold out and they said the ~40 price was a sale :(.
 
I too bought a WM Native. I was thinking, at the time, that I was supporting Spyderco and saving money. Now that I think about it, I think I was just saving money (not a bad thing).
Now that I have read most of this thread, I have a different concept of the WM sales:
The best thing that can come of WM selling the Native is that people who probably never heard of Spyderco will get a "taste" of Spyderco quality. For me, an already-sold-believer, I am buying something that I already know is good. I'm buying a knife that (I now believe) is ment for the "un-enlightened";) .
I'm also putting $ in WM's pocket, and I don't believe that Spyderco is making that much on the deal. What's done is done, but I don't think I'll buy another Spyderco from WM even if they somehow start carrying other models. I would rather buy from NG or F+K or just about anyone else for the same reason that I wont buy a 10/22 from WM; I would like to keep my local gunshop going (and my favorite, online dealers too).
---Tom
 
ive still yet to find a walmart around me selling the native, and the employees ive asked are less than polite about it. which is why i usually avoid walmart
 
Bedford IN WM has Natives. I told the salesman about CPM steels. He seemed interested. I told him the Native outclassed everything else in the case.
 
I continues to boggle my mind that in the most affluent country on the planet, we demand the lowest prices on everything. This is what makes Walmart flourish. Walmart will NEVER get a dime from me- I will continue to support the dealers and vendors that show respect and integrity to both their customers and their employees.
 
Walmart specialis's in low cost, cheap, and disposiable; the Native isn't.

I wonder if Walmart is beginning to understand it's eating itself and this country.
 
i still wish i could find a walmart near me that carries the native, as im looking for a good sub $50 folder to carry
 
rentz said:
i still wish i could find a walmart near me that carries the native, as im looking for a good sub $50 folder to carry
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For all our steel pedigree knowing, social conscience seeking, free economic modeling... This says how it is.
 
Whether this is "good" or "bad" depends on how you look at it.

Wally World will never carry the plethora of excellent Spydercos available; the Spydies are incredible knives for the price, but most consumers will fail to appreciate the differences between the lower and higher-end knives. It's the nature of the beast that one pays a lot for that extra 15 or 20% at the top, when a knife is capable of extra performance that Joe Sixpack average end-user isn't capable of even noticing yet.

Good, reputable dealers like New Graham are going to continue stocking the Spyderco knives that Wal Mart can/will not. What the Wal Mart sales will do, is expose Spyderco to a whole new audience.

There is an excellent chance that many in this new audience will eventually look for something even more upscale. Wal Mart will not have it.

Where will these new buyers turn? :D

And then, New Graham and others who stock the entire, or majority of the Spyderco line win.

Downside to NGK and others? They don't sell some knives initially, but most of these purchase are to people who never would have found them, anyway. Yeah, and to a few knife knuts like myself who think the Native II is just about the perfect Daily Carry Blade. In the long term, there is an excellent chance that Spyderco dealers will end up selling more because there is a Spyderco at Wal Mart.

John R. Shirley
 
Drat. I got sucked in. I was at the Bedford WM looking at Natives and one was so perfect I bought it. Now I have two. :rolleyes:
 
as i posted on another thread
native at walmart $39.95
native at local G&K store $70.00
I dont think Sal makes bad decisions on things like this
walmart wins
spyderco wins
I win
 
Got the last one in the vacaville, CA walmart. As far as outrage over walmart....I'll get to that after I'm over my indignation at how internet dealers are undercutting my local brick and mortar dealers ;)
 
I picked up a Native from my local Wally World. Great knife, amazing price, it will rotate with my other Spydies and Benchmades. I think it's great to see Spyderco in Wal-Mart, exposes Spyderco to a whole new market.
 
I'm not sure why so many people are rushing out to get a native from Walmart when they have been available for the same price or less on the internet for years. :confused:
 
when they have been available for the same price or less on the internet for years.
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I will buy something ten times over before going to the net if I can handle it first. I speculate that many others are the same way.
 
One big reason is that you can pick up and handle the knife - in addition to buying it at a very fair price. Preferences play a big role in how much one likes a knife and, there just isn't a substitute for putting it in your hand.
 
Really? For less? NGK had them for 60ish pre Walmart Native, and they usually have very good prices....dang, so you could buy them at ~30%ish the original price. I think I'm going to buy another new Para for 10 dollars tomorrow.
 
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