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Let me comment on what I know for certain. Club knives are meant to be sold. A knife, hopefully, will be sold out within a short time and not linger on the club shelf. The knife that lingers is money the club paid Buck and is not being made back to put in club coffers (and it's small profit).
There are several considerations like the number of knives that might be sold, buyer's cost, available materials (what Buck has available) and 'situations'. Such as the auto 110, the legal issues in mailing and owning it in some states and areas comes in to play. It use to be that a club knife only competed with customizers and Buck. Now they also compete against other resellers who take polls here on Blade Forum. Blade Forum in a "manufactures" forum and not part of BCCI. However, BCCI is interested in what Buck Forum members think, both BCCI members and non-members. Commenting on a poll of what knife the club should offer is a good activity, but in the end it should then be taken to a club sponsored forum (club Facebook or E-Newsletter forum) by the threads author to make sure the leadership and club members that view those areas see the results. There are BCCI members who never view this Buck Forum and even some officers that are just occasional visitors. BCCI is a club of Buck collectors and users that gain advantage of its resources to educate the individual and provide a place specific to the discussion of Buck Company made knives, mainly from a collectors view point. The definition of what is collector is can be variable.
After all that as background, I would think a nice well made knife, both with beauty and function, of less than 200 dollars in cost might be sold readily. And then it will have to have value in special metal or special production to make it a seller. As my experience goes, it is not only considered for it in Collectors value but is hoped that knife 'owners' and users consider it worth buying also.
A fancy steel 301 back a couple years ago apparently didn't appeal to a broad spectrum of collectors and users. And ended up being difficult to sell (so says the guy that harped and harped about trying a small folder, till a small supply of BG42 steel was found by Buck. This shadow of that non selling knife will follow me for quite a while.) I think the cost did not equal the fancy steel to make it a "fancy" pocket knife. When for a quarter of the cost you could get a 420hc user. In my promotion I did not consider that regular 'users' would consider it too expensive. It sold well to collectors but apparently their are only about 125 301 collectors in the world. Ha....so the other 175 made were boat anchors to the profit margin. In retrospect the plain scale may have held down sales.
All this is what should be considered in the talk of ordering several hundred special club knives from Buck.
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There are several considerations like the number of knives that might be sold, buyer's cost, available materials (what Buck has available) and 'situations'. Such as the auto 110, the legal issues in mailing and owning it in some states and areas comes in to play. It use to be that a club knife only competed with customizers and Buck. Now they also compete against other resellers who take polls here on Blade Forum. Blade Forum in a "manufactures" forum and not part of BCCI. However, BCCI is interested in what Buck Forum members think, both BCCI members and non-members. Commenting on a poll of what knife the club should offer is a good activity, but in the end it should then be taken to a club sponsored forum (club Facebook or E-Newsletter forum) by the threads author to make sure the leadership and club members that view those areas see the results. There are BCCI members who never view this Buck Forum and even some officers that are just occasional visitors. BCCI is a club of Buck collectors and users that gain advantage of its resources to educate the individual and provide a place specific to the discussion of Buck Company made knives, mainly from a collectors view point. The definition of what is collector is can be variable.
After all that as background, I would think a nice well made knife, both with beauty and function, of less than 200 dollars in cost might be sold readily. And then it will have to have value in special metal or special production to make it a seller. As my experience goes, it is not only considered for it in Collectors value but is hoped that knife 'owners' and users consider it worth buying also.
A fancy steel 301 back a couple years ago apparently didn't appeal to a broad spectrum of collectors and users. And ended up being difficult to sell (so says the guy that harped and harped about trying a small folder, till a small supply of BG42 steel was found by Buck. This shadow of that non selling knife will follow me for quite a while.) I think the cost did not equal the fancy steel to make it a "fancy" pocket knife. When for a quarter of the cost you could get a 420hc user. In my promotion I did not consider that regular 'users' would consider it too expensive. It sold well to collectors but apparently their are only about 125 301 collectors in the world. Ha....so the other 175 made were boat anchors to the profit margin. In retrospect the plain scale may have held down sales.
All this is what should be considered in the talk of ordering several hundred special club knives from Buck.
300
