What Production Knives Do You Consider To Be Over Priced?

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That because the custom market is very overcrowded. The pictured knife sold for $375 at the Guild Show in Orlando in the early 90's. I think was marked down from $400. What would you pay for a similar one today? About the same or a little more, I would think.
A.L. said:
I find most of the production knives overpriced these days. When I go to the custom knives sales area, I see plenty of beautiful hand crafted knives for equal or even less money in similiar type of knives. That's when factory made is overpriced for me.
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jdm61 said:
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That because the custom market is very overcrowded. The pictured knife sold for $375 at the Guild Show in Orlando in the early 90's. I think was marked down from $400. What would you pay for a similar one today? About the same or a little more, I would think.
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I don't know, it depends how much I wanted it. ;)
From knife maker's perspective it must be hard, but from customer perspective it's very appealing situation in a way.
 
I am in a small Northern California town with a small saw works that is also an authorized BM and Spyderco dealer... they mark up above MSRP. I'm not sure who pays $220 for a Manix but they manage to keep their doors open.

jdm61 said:
About the only place that I have seen charging anything close to MSRP since the demise of the mall stores was We Be Knives on Pier 39 in San Francisco. But they had a good excuse. They had to pay Pier 39 rent AND stay in business in San Francisco. ;)
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Everything at my local dealer is full MSRP. That seems a bit over priced compared to online authorized dealers, some of whom are members here. I want to patronize local but that makes it harder.

As far as manufacturer's pricing a lot seem high. I bought a new 1911 once for $170. But if an item sells for a price it must have been worth that price, that's the definition of value.
 
In terms of factory knives....Benchmade and Emerson charge way more than other makes just because they can (fanboys). Smaller production....I don't think anything is more ridiculous than the current fetish for Russian knives like the Shirogorov. Just like the Hinderer's from years ago, people are paying $700-$900 for knives that should cost $200-$400.
 
hudak said:
In terms of factory knives....Benchmade and Emerson charge way more than other makes just because they can (fanboys). Smaller production....I don't think anything is more ridiculous than the current fetish for Russian knives like the Shirogorov. Just like the Hinderer's from years ago, people are paying $700-$900 for knives that should cost $200-$400.
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Agreed. Most shirogorovs are just so bland and boring looking. Their action while great, is nothing too amazing for today's bearing flippers. Just don't get their prices

sent from a highly secretive CIA base somewhere in the deep jungles of South America shhh
 
I think that the cost to manufacture a given knife should be considered somewhere in the discussion.....

A small outfit (compared to your ZT's, Benchmades, etc,) who produces a "similar" knife on a low volume, with a significant amount of handwork compared to that produced in very large volumes almost entirely by machine in a full factory setting are typically going to be more expensive. It simply takes more TIME to make each knife, and time is of course money.

When I consider buying a particular knife, where it's made, how it's made, and who made it are important to me. Often important enough to justify (in my mind and that's all that matters) a higher price (sometimes SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER) for what is basically a very similar knife
 
shirogorovs are expensive due to supply and demand. if you want a russian knife that is affordable at least atm, Cheburkov knives are a pretty decent alternative.
 
hudak said:
In terms of factory knives....Benchmade and Emerson charge way more than other makes just because they can (fanboys).
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People say things like that, but "fanboys" are not born, nor does marketing create them.

Fans get created by people liking a product and then telling others about it. :)

Fanboys---and Haterz---are just unpleasant folks who make rational discussion unpleasant.
They are in the minority by far, but scream loudly far and wide, making it seem like their opinions are actual facts.
 
stabman said:
Fanboys---and Haterz---are just unpleasant folks who make rational discussion unpleasant.
They are in the minority by far, but scream loudly far and wide, making it seem like their opinions are actual facts.
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In my experience, when you give someone actual facts and they say your opinion doesn't matter because you're just a hater, they're almost always a fanboy.
 
evilgreg said:
In my experience, when you give someone actual facts and they say your opinion doesn't matter because you're just a hater, they're almost always a fanboy.
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True, but haterz do the same in reverse.

It makes spotting both varieties of foul beast quite easy in the majority of cases. :thumbup:
 
evilgreg said:
In my experience, when you give someone actual facts and they say your opinion doesn't matter because you're just a hater, they're almost always a fanboy.
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I think the issue is that most people can't distinguish between fact or opinion.
 
stabman said:
True, but haterz do the same in reverse.

It makes spotting both varieties of foul beast quite easy in the majority of cases. :thumbup:
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We do not! You're only saying that because you're such a fanboy! ;)
 
I think the ZT 0095BW is a bit overpriced. Not the new LE one but the regular one. Well, scratch that, maybe the LE could come down too.

Basically, it's an in-house design and not a co-lab where they gotta break off some of the profits for a big-name designer. Pass on the savings ZT!
 
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