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Red DLT M390 madness begins Again
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Same. First person I have put on ignore. I was actually intending to pay international shipping and duty for one of those. But, nah. 7 minutes too late. Scalpers gonna scalp and I reserve the right to fart in their general direction.
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That is interesting. Though we don't discuss that in GKD.
I gather DLT might do another run of this. Let’s hold out, brother. They are represented here on BF, so we could discuss potential for a reserved list for contributing members. Worth a shot, maybe. Anyway, I can live without it for now. Just despise those who indulge in this sort of scalping. Thankfully, the vast majority of people here are very decent. It is a great place, with a few nasty elements.
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This reminds me of the anecdote about R.W. Loveless charging 4,000$ for a knife because people would resell them for more than they bought them for and he might as well charge the going rate and cut out the middle man.
The whole problem is that there are those that will pay a inflated prices..Time marches on..
John
Yup.
The obvious solution is not a
but a "self-regulating outing members who keep the flippers in business buy buying their knives police force."
Shame the buyer members on the forum, they stop buying from the flipper members, flippers gut suffocated out of business.
I'm not a buyer or seller, but maybe one of the more passionate/vocal members should start up a thread or something.
Next time I see someone complain about the Spyderco price increase i'm going to direct them to this thread.
Anytime you have a product that not only sells out in 5 mins, but people can double the value on in the same week just means the product was greatly underpriced to begin with.
Anytime you have a product that not only sells out in 5 mins, but people can double the value on in the same week just means the product was greatly underpriced to begin with.
Underpriced to begin with? No. Just a limited run aimed at collectors, with scalpers capitalising on having swooped in at the right time. Unsavoury, as was mentioned above.
I thought the price was pretty low considering what you are getting and the amount of interest people have been expressing over the past couple of months. But i'm new to collecting Spyderco's so i'm maybe incorrect. I just noticed higher priced ltd runs like the knife center carbon/ti military didn't sell out overnight.
That's only if you believe market pricing is the right answer. I know that some people are free market purists and would never question that, but others disagree. This is why you have makers running 'lotteries' for who can buy their $1200 knife at a show: If they didn't do that, and let the market set prices, the knife would be $5000 and have no chance of being enjoyed by a whole class of people. And believe it or not, sometimes it's more important for a knife to be carried by someone with $1200 to spare, than be kept in a safe and occasionally paraded on instagram by someone with $5000 to spare. Likewise it would arguably be better for this Manix to be used by people who want it, than used as a high-speed investment tool by those who don't.
Why? If someone uses their knives, that makes them better than someone who just looks at their knives or parades them on instagram?
And if a knife is bought by someone with $1200 to spare, that does not mean they wont lok the knife up in a safe or parade it on instagram.
If there are no rules here about how much money someone can make selling a knife (there aren't), or rules dictating who gets "first dibs" on a knife based on how much money they have or what they will do with it (there aren't), then cut off the flipper supply chain. Oldest military tactic in the book. Call out the supply chain.