Who has better knives? Home Shopping Network,or Shop At Home? ;)

MAURICE

MAURICE

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Ok,its late fri nite/sat morning,and both shows are selling these super duper "high quality" knives.i keep hearing words and phrases that somehow do not belong.take for example:
"this is a custom piece that you will not find anywhere else"--my thinking-good,keep that POS outta my sight
"this is a forged blade.."--no its not,dumbass.
"we have a total of nine METAL tactical folders in this deal".--yeah,its a knife,i hope it has some metal.
"this piece here is called 'the serpent of death',available ony from us." --what a name.ill remember that when im busted for carrying a 'serpent of death' concealed.

SHEESH
cant believe people actually buy these...things. (i was gonna say knives,but thats not a fitting description.
 
BIGUNS!!!!!!
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Tom Odel & that other kid. Yeah they crack me up. I realy like it when the kid is showing off the "katanas" and he's swinging it around saying how "perfectly" balanced it is! It's knife comedy at its finest!
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For a moment I thought the HSN had cured me of my affliction. No longer did I have an urge to buy a knife (actually I could barely stand to look at the stuff they were pitching). Unfortunately, as soon as the HSN "Knife Collector" show ended I found that my urges had been restored to their former vigor.

It was mildly amusing to watch. The way they were handling those "knives" gave me the impression that their mothers might pop on stage at any moment and give them a whomping.
 
To answer your question.....Shop at Home does. And yah, this stuff isn't up to our standards, but for some people this is enough.

Why we collect knives is unique to each of us. I have a friend who really likes that Franklin Mint stuff. Most of us here wouldn't even have the stuff, much less buy it, but he's happy, so what's the problem?

I buy about a case of the cheapest stuff I can get like this (S at H) a year. I use them at work to scrape gaskets, etc. off steel, cut sanding discs in half and other stuff like this that would just trash a good knife. Besides, if I forget and leave it out and it walks off, it's no big deal.

Dan
 
That Tom O'Dell and Shawn??? are some salesmen and hilarious to watch!
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I just wish they were selling something worthwhile. Crappy POS knives like that lack the function or SOUL of a real knife. Instead of buying a few of their Pakistani specials, get a KABAR or BKT for crying out loud! And a real Delica is worth more than a handful of their "TACTICALS"! I wonder what kind of margins and volume they need to do to subsidize a TV show? It would be great to have them sell real knives!

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I just tuned in: Shawn ;"This deal is dumber than O'Dell and he's dumber than my dog." LOL
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OMIGOD an Onion Whirlwind knock-off!
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That's not funny, it's scary!
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I'll take one of em Booies!!!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dan K:
... some people this is enough...it's no big deal.

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Well put. And if by chance only one person who buys a cheap HSN "knife" and then decides he'd like something better and spends money on a name brand and sees the light and then buys more name brands and then sends some money to a custom maker for his first custom knife and then......
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They had a deal the other night I just couldn't pass up!!

There had to be 20 POUNDS of knives for sale at under $50.00!!

I just had to buy them because I couldn't find a stainless steel anchor for less.

With a bit of "FROSTWOOD" removal and some minor welding I'm gonna make one HELLUVA anchor with these babies!!

Can anybody else think of any appropriate uses for HSC knives???

OH..........and WHAT THE HELL IS A BOOOOOOEEE?? If I hear the word BOOOOOOEE one more time I'll PUKE!

My main grip though is the OVERSELL. Tell the truth.

"These are a bunch of crappy knives we contracted from Pakistan and China where they call it stainless steel if it doesn't rust, the workers make 6 cents a day and the knives are the lowest form of cutlery available today.......BUT LOOK AT THIS PRICE!!!! You can't buy munure buy the pound for less!!"

That would be closer to the truth.

P.S. I didn't buy any of them thar BOOOOOOEEES to make my anchor. We all know that BOOOOOEES FLOAT!!

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I heard from a fellow who bought the complete set of knives including the "Dragon" handle Katana...

He was swinging it around doing your basic Highlander when the blade broke free from the handle and shot off straight at his buddy sitting in the truck...

It just missed impailing him by a quarter inch or so...Deflected by the open door...

You get what you pay for...although the cost may be higher than you think...

And just a note on profit margin...I was in the shop of a fellow who wanted to take the Pakistani swords and put new handles on them...I refused to be involved because he had no intention of pinning the handles on...He was just going to use superglue!

I told him right off he had a liability problem in the making, but he said no one would ever swing them around, (see previous story)...

Anyway, he wanted to sell the swords for $160...His cost? $6 wholesale...

It's one thing to make a good profit from your work...quite another to sell dangerous products knowing full well how peoplw are going to use them...

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Yeah a few of my friends brag about the "great deals". They aren't quite the knife nuts as I am but I'm working on them, with severe beatings when they're about to by from them
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. However, when you have no cable and insomnia, the entertainment value at three in the morning is unparalleled. On night I saw a Buck, and a Kershaw Onion assisted opening knife, when they first came out. woke me up fast. For the rest of the night I wondered if I was on the right channel.
 
Just to add a note. I like when they show those POS "tacticals" sold in a large batch, and declare, "These are the knives you can depend your life on". I'd be LMAO if it weren't for the fact that I think some people believe that.
 
Biguns...........LMAO
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I don't know why, maybe it's the "knife thing" in me, but I always find myself compelled to watch these guys do their thing.

I tell 'ya, I only wish that they would hook up with some quality cutlery and then offer those great deals, price adjusted of coarse. We'd all be posting how much we're watching them then. Wouldn't we???
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Once I was watching Tom stab his "pig stickers" into his display logs and they kept falling over. He was getting obviously very frustrated and still kept picking them up and re-sticking them into these logs. Then, you guessed it (well maybe), he cut himself. I turned to my wife (who by the way can't stand these shows but endures them for yours truly) and I said, "I can't believe that those knives are actually sharp enough to cut him". That Tom guy must have some really thin-a$$ skin!!!
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And what I get a real kick out of is when QVC is hawking Frost (cutlery???) and the salesman/rep (Mr.Dumass) from Frost keeps stopping to wipe the finerprints and packaging oil off of his knives because noone could think to do this before they went on the air.
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And what's even funnier is this happens everytime I see their show.

'Ya gotta' love it!!!!

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There are not too many things in this world that can simultaneously make me LMAO and make me incredibly mad at the same time. My sister in law told me about one of these shows because she knows how much I like knives. She told me about the great "bargains". I decided I had better let her down easy before I got some for Christmas.
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If she were not such I nice person, and meant it so sincerely, I would have laughed in her face.
Paul
 
Perverse opinion coming --

One night, my wife called me to say there was a program selling knives on either HSN or the other one -- she's an inveterate watcher of both. I immediately recognized that the blades were not from this country, laughed, and told her they were junk.

Now for the potentially aggravating comment: When I saw those knives, the first thing I thought of were the Gil Hibben "fantasy knives." There is a great deal of similarity. I've read a bit about Hibben's background, and know he once made sensible, user knives. But all I've seen of Hibben's in the couple years -- well a bit less -- that I've become a knifeknut, is this weird, wayout stuff that looked like it just materialized from some video game. Can't help but wonder if it isn't the popularity of Hibben's outlandish, totally impractical knives that has created the market for the Pakistani POS "clones."

Just a $.02 wondering,


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Bugs
 
Yeah thes knives remind me of the diaper wipes of the knife industry..use em once and throw em away
 
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