Where do you buy your knives?

I like Best Knives, their customer service is outstanding. I've bought a few pieces from Brigade Quartermasters, their prices are really good and they ship fast. And I'm always on ebay looking for old Buck 110s. I usually won't buy anything new on ebay, but can often be found bidding on beat up old 110s.
 
WadeF said:
I tend to disagree. From working in retail and trying to compete with other stores you'd be crazy to sell things at full retail value. For example, say a video camera costs us $649, the minimum advertised price maybe $799 and the suggested retail price maybe $999. Companies like Sony won't let us advertise below $799. So companies like Best Buy, Circuit City, etc, will sell at $799.99 because the heavily advertise their products. My store doesn't advertise and has discounted prices and may sell the camcorder for $699.99. A place like Sears might try and get $899.99 or higher. If you go online to a company like bhphotovideo.com they may sell it for $649.99, but you have to add it to your shopping cart to see their discounted price. So for me it's crazy to think someone would try and sell something for the full suggested retail price with so many people shopping online.

If you can get a knife online for $115 and you go to a knife shop and see it for $185 it's a big slap in the face. More and more customers will be aware of online prices and will run from shops trying to soak them. The sad thing is where I work we may have a video camera for $479.99 and people have a print out from the web showing it for $459.99 and want us to match the price or whatever. You'd think for that little difference they'd be happy to support a local business. However, if we had it for $599.99 I could understand if they wouldn't want to do business with us.
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Well, maybe in both cases the product is being sold for too little online. Companies are closing down distributors right and left and selling direct to dealers only. That way, anyone caught discounting gets their account closed.

All I know is that when something (anything) is being sold online at a couple bucks over wholesale it is severely devalued.
 
MSRP $300.00
Dealer cost (MSRP - 50%) $150.00
Probable Selling Price (MSRP - 30%) $210.00

Distributor cost (Dealer cost - 20%) $120.00
 
I shop almost exclusively online. AG Russell, Smoky Mountain, and a bunch of others. Recently I've bought a few knives on eBay with satisfying results. And I've bought on these forums a time or two.

-Bob
 
Steven Roos said:
What if you liked a knife and no one sold it for less than MSRP? What would you do? It is happening sooner than you think.
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Chris Reeve are pretty much all MSRP there isnt a lot of discount to be found on them. I would support a B&M store over the Internet if they didnt take the mickey. Support is one thing, charity another. I remember going to a local knife shop in Tokyo, this guy wanted $360 for a Military, yeah, right!
 
Lil Timmy said:
MSRP $300.00
Dealer cost (MSRP - 50%) $150.00
Probable Selling Price (MSRP - 30%) $210.00

Distributor cost (Dealer cost - 20%) $120.00
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Not true Timmy, I am a dealer and not all knives from a distributor or manufacturer are 50% of MRRP.
 
Temper said:
Not true Timmy, I am a dealer and not all knives from a distributor or manufacturer are 50% of MRRP.
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I didn't say it was true for all knives, but it's the basic formula for most knives in the US. :cool:
 
I try to shop at my local knife store whenever I can. Shipping and taxes add a lot to the price of anything I bring from outside Argentina, plus all the paperwork with the postal service.
For example, a 60 dollar knife, would end up costing me around 110 dollars, and a lost morning at the post office.
If my local dealer has it for around that price, I'm buying it form him.
SAKs are usually cheaper at the local shop, the owners are the distributors of Victorinox and Wenger for the whole country, so they have good prices (like the ones you would get at an online discount store).
The knives I order online are the ones I can't find at the stores. I've ordered form Ragnar, Knifeworks, Knife shed and a SAK dealer in a forum, all work out great so far.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
On line, here, fleamarkets, estate sales, anywhere I can find 'em.
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Yeah, what he said.

Shrewsbury Farmers Market, good guy named Mike up there, has a shed down the hill, get some knives from him off an on. Good selection for a hole in the wall.

Walmart, Target, Dicks Sporting Goods

flea/farmers markets such as Morningstar Farmers Market in York PA, Green Dragon in Ephrata PA, Roots Farmers Market in Lancaster PA, Wilmington Farmers Market in Wilmington DE, little flea markets along the road from Gettysburg to Chambersburg

THE big yard sale every weekend along Rte 30 in PA between Hanover and York

Here of course (thanks for all the great deals and trades :cool: )

eBay sometimes

Knives Plus

One Stop Knife Shop (great service natch)



and sometimes I don't even have to buy, I love getting knives as gifts, the nicest one I got was an old Western hunting knife from my father couple years ago. Very nice piece.
 
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Have ya ever been to a fleamarket and found the only self proclaimed edged weapons expert, the guy that sells blow guns,"I keep a stealth blowgun in my survival kit" he say's, all while selling cheap knock-offs "Sure it's as good as Spyderco and at 1/10 the price no one will know the difference".

I can't go to this one fleamarket because I always want to argue with this idiot, and I don't want to waste half a day talkin' to a moron.

Every once in a while you find an older knowledgeable collector sadly selling off pieces of his collection in order to buy his wife's arthritis medicine or something like that, kinda makes ya feel sad. :(

My best buy was a beautiful unsharpened 1920's-30's Case Green Pick Bone equal end pen bought at an estate auction as part of a box lot for $3

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Steven Roos said:
What if you liked a knife and no one sold it for less than MSRP? What would you do? It is happening sooner than you think.
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If the knife is not sold by anybody else for cheaper. But like buy a Spyderco MIlitary for $190 froms spyderco or buy it from NGK for $115.


But if a knife is more than $115 i prorolly wouldent buy the knife becosue it is just to expensive/
 
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