GaiusJulius
Gold Member
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2016
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When something sells out in 37 seconds... there’s bound to be a feeling of exultation if you actually manage to get one, and this place is the natural outlet to celebrate it. It does detract from the knives themselves and discussion of them to a small extent, but so does the fact that there’s 400 knives and seemingly a thousand folks who want one. Which means the whole question for the majority of interested parties isn’t “Do I like the fact that there are no half stops,” but rather “Do I have a slight chance of actually getting one of these myself to try, and if so, how?”
The usual solution when a product sells so fast is to raise the prices. This allows everyone who wants one to get one, if they’re willing to pay. For whatever reason this hasn’t happened (for which a part of me is grateful because they currently aren’t cheap but are priced “fairly” in my opinion), and so the company and to a lesser extent the dealers get to benefit from the hype. It’s undoubtedly good for GEC to have such interest in their products that most of them sell very quickly, and the scarcity factor helps too.
If someone knew that there would be Conductors on store shelves for the next year, they probably wouldn’t buy one now. They’d wait for the pictures, reviews, comparisons, save some money and pay for a bathroom remodel now, and pick one up in 6 months or so. Maybe that slow selling knife might even get put on discount! But as it stands, there is high demand, so our hypothetical knife connoisseur must either participate in the pig trough now, or resign himself to never having one, or pay double retail later on at his leisure in the secondhand market. Certainly more laid back, but certainly more expensive too.
The rules on the forum exist for good reasons and should not be changed, but I’m grateful that the mods don’t enforce them in such a draconian fashion as to ignore the reality that these knives can be challenging to get right now.
The usual solution when a product sells so fast is to raise the prices. This allows everyone who wants one to get one, if they’re willing to pay. For whatever reason this hasn’t happened (for which a part of me is grateful because they currently aren’t cheap but are priced “fairly” in my opinion), and so the company and to a lesser extent the dealers get to benefit from the hype. It’s undoubtedly good for GEC to have such interest in their products that most of them sell very quickly, and the scarcity factor helps too.
If someone knew that there would be Conductors on store shelves for the next year, they probably wouldn’t buy one now. They’d wait for the pictures, reviews, comparisons, save some money and pay for a bathroom remodel now, and pick one up in 6 months or so. Maybe that slow selling knife might even get put on discount! But as it stands, there is high demand, so our hypothetical knife connoisseur must either participate in the pig trough now, or resign himself to never having one, or pay double retail later on at his leisure in the secondhand market. Certainly more laid back, but certainly more expensive too.
The rules on the forum exist for good reasons and should not be changed, but I’m grateful that the mods don’t enforce them in such a draconian fashion as to ignore the reality that these knives can be challenging to get right now.