When not to sell a knife?

[DaveH]

I've run into this, and I'm sure others have too. That is you would like to sell a knife but no one wants to buy.

So I have been thinking about this and have come up with the following guidlines:

If a knife was inexpensive to begin with, under $50, it's not worth trying to sell used, even if in good condition.

Never buy a newly introduced production knife unless you want to resell it very soon after it starts shipping. Otherwise susequent improvements will lower the value of your early knife.

Putting a number of x out of 1000, on what is regularly a production knife doesn't make it more valuable.

Some more expensive knives will be timeless, but those are the ones that build up their reputation slowly over time.

Some will fall out of fashion in a year or two. This is probably related to how much the knife is hyped before release.

The more the anticipation and hype before a knife is released, the greater its value will fall in the following year after it's release.

 

[TheBadGuy]

Thats why the best policy is to only buy and never sell. Of course this is a hard one to stick to when that "Must Have" knife pops up for sale and your low on cash.


Anyway, good post. I will be here when you guys need money, just keep posting them for sale

 

[wolfmann601]

When it's stamped Onion, Mayo, Blackwood, Hossom, Loveless, Moran, Fitch, Lake, Walker, Carson, etc.

You get the picture

 

[anthony cheeseboro]

I can say from my own experience that there are probably more knives that I find interesting than knives I truly want to own. Although it can be hard, I have tried to fight the impulse to always buy the new thing coming out because too often I have turned around and sold it.

I guess that in my round about way, I'm saying that it's cool to sell anything you don't want, and it's cool to sell when you can realize a nice profit. Still, it's probably best to be selective about buying knives in the first place because when the dust clears, most of us will only want a fairly small number of the knives that initially got our attention.