Why did Benchmade remove their red series knives?

I believe they stopped the Red class 1-2 years ago. The reason was that they wanted to do all their production in the United States, whereas most(?) of the red series was manufactured abroad. Now all Benchmade brand knives are made in the States.
 
I heard they didn't want their name on anything made in china any longer. Some of the other lines such as their h & k line may be made in china, but it doesn't say Benchmade on it. Make sense?
 
Starwolf said:
I heard they didn't want their name on anything made in china any longer. Some of the other lines such as their h & k line may be made in china, but it doesn't say Benchmade on it. Make sense?
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Doesn't make much sense in my opinion. It's a marketing thing. Since then, the HK and HD line had just exploded.
 
I think they wanted all of the knives with Benchmade stamped on them to be of a certain quality. Many of their Heckler and Koch, Harley Davidson, and Lone Wolf series of knives are produced overseas. I think they wanted to raise the bar for the word "Benchmade" and keep it that way.
 
I find that pretty stupid. For someone like me, their other classes of knife are too expensive to just go and buy whenever you want.
 
You think benchmades are expensive.... Check out strider or Chris reeve or most custom knife makers out there. If you want something of Benchmade quality with the price tag of a mtech like everyone had said check out the hd and hk lines.
IMO you get what you pay for with Benchmade you get high quality products and they are well worth the money.
 
Not expensive, just more than I can pay when you consider how often I but weapons. I'd say I get two new weapons a month, not that I consider knives weapons.
 
Actually, one reason I've heard of is that the Red Class sold better than all of their other ones.
Funny, I know.
 
Mephtyrm said:
Actually, one reason I've heard of is that the Red Class sold better than all of their other ones.
Funny, I know.
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They did what they were supposed to, so they sold better. I guess they just want people paying more for their knives that do more than enough.
 
In my opinion, China/Taiwan always get a bad reputation. They didn't want anything they made coming from China and failing. Benchmade wanted their name to be the best of the best. They wanted to compete with Kershaw/Spyderco/whoever else.

Its sad that prejudice and patriotism has to override factory quality ( Spyderco's Taichung knives), but sometimes that's the way it is.
 
jhyde7585 said:
In my opinion, China/Taiwan always get a bad reputation. They didn't want anything they made coming from China and failing. Benchmade wanted their name to be the best of the best. They wanted to compete with Kershaw/Spyderco/whoever else.

Its sad that prejudice and patriotism has to override factory quality ( Spyderco's Taichung knives), but sometimes that's the way it is.
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Things made in other countries can be good quality as long as there is good quality control. I know Benchmade has some great knives, but that seemed like an arrogant American move as if Benchmade loved the Confederacy (even though the Confederates hated Blacks, not Asians).
 
Plasmio said:
Things made in other countries can be good quality as long as there is good quality control. I know Benchmade has some great knives, but that seemed like an arrogant American move as if Benchmade loved the Confederacy (even though the Confederates hated Blacks, not Asians).
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Hence the mention of Spyderco's Taichung knives, the best, regardless of origin. Better than Golden's knives. Hands down. I kinda agree with you, but just not to that extreme.
 
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jhyde7585 said:
Hence the mention of Spyderco's Taichung knives, the best, regardless of origin. Better than Golden's knives. Hands down. I kinda agree with you, but just not to that extreme.
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It was just an exaggerated example, but it seems similar to what made them remove their red class.
 
Unless we have someone in the know from Benchmade wade into the fray, all we have is speculation.

I would say that it is more profitable to sell less units of a higher profit product than more units of a product with a tight profit margin.

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mqqn
 
mqqn said:
Unless we have someone in the know from Benchmade wade into the fray, all we have is speculation.

I would say that it is more profitable to sell less units of a higher profit product than more units of a product with a tight profit margin.

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mqqn
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What was the average price of red class knives? I don't even remember.
 
Their was a really nice red series titanium BM knife, I dont remember the name but it was part of the red series, it looked like a alias 2 basically.
 
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