You Bleed, You Buy Policy

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I've seen a number of knife stores sporting "You bleed, you buy!" signs and I don't even have to ask why. With any number of potential blood-bourne diseases making the rounds, who needs the hassle? Such signs also alert potential customers that the knives are sharp and that accidental cutting could cause problems. It also weeds out the causual person who wants to look first at one knife, then another and so on. Finally, if some knucklehead does cut himself, what better service can a store render but to make him buy one so he'll learn how to handle it without killing himself (and, if he doesn't, that's part of Darwin's survival of the fittest)?

What do you think of such policies? Have you ever seen anyone cut themselves at a knife store? Have you known of anyone who sued?

Just curious....
 
Makes perfect sense to me, it prevents blood bourne diseases from spreading and if the person is really that careless an idiot from reproducing. Also helps the knife store out.
 
Yep, perfectly logical. I certainly don't want to buy a "new" knife that someone else has already bled all over. It's no big deal if it's used, I sort of expect that, but I'd prefer stuff bought from a store to not even have someone elses fingerprints on it.
 
i have had some peopel cut themselves when they are handling knives at my store if they do then i just clean it off i did have one guy buy a Recon 1 cause he cut himself but he also wanted one so it was cool. but we dont have a bleed and buy thing going on.
 
I cut myself on an old timberlite knife one time at a sporting goods store.

They had that weird compression lock thing that you had to pull out on the open blade to close it. I was not familiar with that kind of strange locking mechanism, so my hand slipped and my right index finger slid right along the edge.

I bled everywhere, and the kid behind the counter looked horrified....lol.

I placed the knife on the counter and walked away with my bleeding finger clutching my t-shirt.

If this ever happens again, nobody is going to MAKE me buy a knife i've injured myself with. How could you enforce that kind of thing?

If anything, I guess it poses a legal concern for the knife store actually. People will sue over anything.
 
I think thats a great idea. It'll stop jackasses from running thier fingers over the edge and bleeding all over the store's carpet/walls.
 
I had a Spyderco SE Rescue 93mm (blue) bite me at the shop. I dropped it closed like I've done with Spydercos countless times before, but this time I got bit. Not when dropping it closed, but when moving my hand around to finish it closing.

The clerk went behind the counter to find a bandaid, but I had my own.:foot::cool:

I didn't buy the knife (I bought one from newgraham when I got home, #@%!ing mall shops charge too damn much), but I agree with the "You bleed, you buy" policy, and wouldn't have complained if they insisted I pay for it.
 
No way they could inforce a "you bleed you buy" rule, like phycho78 suggested.
That would not be legal.
Same as some merchants claiming you cannot return goods for a refund. (store credit only)
That's BS also.


Sag.
 
Sagittarius said:
No way they could inforce a "you bleed you buy" rule, like phycho78 suggested.
That would not be legal.
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Probably true. If I owned a shop, I might put a "you bleed, you buy" sign to dissuade people from being careless, but I'd probably not actually "enforce" it. But I might refuse to let them handle other knives (and not just because they might be bleeding--but to prevent further injuries).

You've got to wonder just how many people cut themselves at the mall stores; the vast majority of their customers are impulse buyers who aren't necessarily "knife people". I mean, I'm a "knife people", and I still managed to cut myself.'

How about a sign that says something like "Handle with care. We charge $10 per bandaid."?
 
I did cut myself in a knife store. The funny part is that I didn't even realize it until about an hour later :D (yes, it was that such a serious wound :rolleyes: D)
BTW I bought the knife :D but not because I cut myself with it :)
 
I remember seeing a post here a while back by a retail worker who saw a lady get cut bad. She tried to check a spyderco's sharpness by running her thumb along the edge.
 
I guess the accidents at the shop I've seen are so small that there was no dripping blood. But if someone tried to make me pay for a knife that I just accidently cut myself with I wouldn't go there ever again. I'm careful but sometimes accidents happen. Besides, doesn't a little rubbing alcohol and air kill most of the bad stuff that would be on the knife itself? And wouldn't you have to cut yourself with the part of the blade that had the contaminated blood on it to catch anything from it? While the initial blood was still wet? Or eat with it?

ps. I'm not a doctor but I know one.:)
 
The number of people who cut themselves would be small, and I doubt the store would attempt to make the customer pay for the knife if the customer refused, just too much hassle over something that the store can not really enforce. What the store is counting on, is that the sign will make people more aware. Of course there are those people who would never think to disagree with the "sign" and who would pay for the knife, no questions asked.
 
I cut myself on a Bradley Mayhem in the store. It's a bali and I was trying a fairly simple move. But the mayhem has a different flipping action with it's slightyl curved handles compared to straight handled balis.

I didn't buy it then, but I did pick one up from the same store a month or two later. Might even have been the same one, who knows?

Phil
 
I doubt anyone would really try to enforce such a rule. I look at it the same as other witty signs in bars and various places. "In God we trust, the rest pay cash," "There's no town drunk - we all take turns" and so on.

It does serve a purpose though, if it gets people to be more careful. God knows some morons should be banned for life from handling any tool with a sharp edge... ;)
 
I like the sign,gives me something to laugh at while checking out the different blades and alittle more careful...
 
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