Whats your best deal you ever got on a knife?

I got a WW2 Kabar MKII, UDT model with the original sheath for free. Gotta love grandmothers and hand-me-downs. I only with my grandfather was still around to fill me in on how it came into his possession.

-Lindey
 
A Kershaw Random Leek for $30. Well... I should clarify... MY cost was $30. Someone gave me a regular Kershaw Leek (a gift), which is valued at about 40 dollars... and it wasn't functioning correctly. I got in touch with Kershaw about sending it back for repairs. Just for kicks, I asked them if it would be possible to let me *upgrade* to the S30V Random Leek. They said SURE, just include a check for $30 dollars along with the defective knife, and they sent me a brand new Random Leek!! =)

Gotta love Kershaw's customer service department!!

-Allen
 
It's hard for me not to find a good deal on a knife. Since my folks run a knife shop, whenever I go see them, they give me the family discount of getting whatever at their cost. It's nice to pick up some very nice knives for very little green.
 
A former member of the forums gave me my prized possession Strider Nightmare GB, with trit. thumbstuds and contoured scales. Free.

Mike :)
 
if I told you I wouldn't be able to get that deal again.....:jerkit:
 
I once got a Spyderco Dodo new from an internet site for $50 with free shipping. I also got a William Henry Ironwood Kestrel for $139 new from a different internet site. I figured both were typos on the websites but I ordered them and received them promptly.
 
I picked up a Benchmade 690 with all carbon fiber scales for $80 at a gun show last month. It was in brand new condition. I pulled the money out of my pocket so fast my pants caugt on fire. Another knife vendor about 5 tables away was selling one for $275. It became my new EDC.
 
I traded a Hardy reel for a mint pre 64 Puma White Hunter in the original wooden box and a Pat Mitchell Cutlers knife. I had two of the reels and only needed 1 !!!
 
I hate to rub it in, but I have had several screaming deals come my way. At a flea market I bought two brand new knives for $50 each, one was an original SOG Tigershark (S5? sk5? Carbon steel) and the other was a Blackjack Rio Grande Bowie (Warner/Moran), another time a guy at work sold me two brand new knives for $70, a SOG Tech and a Gerber MK II. At a pawn shop once I got a used Blackjack Skinner w/stag handle, the original effingham blackjack, for $35. But, to this day, I still lay awake at night about the one that got away. A guy had a huge bowie he wanted to sell me for a hundred bucks, but at that time I had never heard of the Al Mar Alaskan Bowie, so I passed on it. Damn.
 
I bought a Strider PT for $250 today.

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Well it was 12:01 AM when it hit the post button, so I guess it was yesterday when I bought the knife.
 
My brother gave me an original WWII Case V-42 stiletto, complete with sheath. He inherited it from his father-in-law, who served in the 1st Special Services during the war. My brother almost had a seizure when I gave him an idea of what it was worth. He didn't ask for it back though. :)
 
At a gun show last week-end a gentleman came to my table and announced in front of my potential customers that he just purchased one of my custom knives for $20. (Nothing on my table for less than $90.) he told us that he went to a garage sale where evidently the wife was a little miffed at her husband and was selling off all his sporting goods. "I missed the shot gun and the golf clubs but I got a nice knife for $20." Ouch.
 
I bought a 1920s Case greenbone pen knife never sharpened, $3, and an old mint condition unsharpened E. Weck pearl handled pen for $5, do they count?
 
Either of the two early Bowies from Sunfishman in the last couple of weeks,his first Bowie and his first forged Bowie.Deals like this are few and far between. :D
 
I did once get a KaBar shorty for $13.00 from an internet dealer. It was a typo, but in my defense I did not realize it until I searched around and found out that it normally about 35-40 dollars. Store told me it was a typo, but honored the deal.
 
Got a Strider mark1a for doing some favors for a good friend

Got a Strider GB from a friend for free, decided it was to big for what I do, so I am getting it cleaned up to send it back, since I know he will put it to good use
 
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