If you need to ask - directly from JNS of course - just check their ‘sold’ items.
If you need to ask - directly from JNS of course - just check their ‘sold’ items.
Unfortunately in 2020 JNS is the only reliable online retail source for a Kato, but you gotta be quick and/or lucky. Even retailers in Japan are hit or miss with all the local flippers hoovering up supply.JNS kato prices seem to be the highest Kato retail prices around. At this point anyone scoring an $800 kato is sure to make a little off it, but double the retail price is absurd. “Let the market decide” means numerous price drops until Kato finally sells.
KU?Last kato standard 240 nothing special about it, sold on auction last week was 2000$ in japan. That with transport fees and customs makes an absurd price. Yet it sold. Funny thing is Morihei sells the same knife for 150k yen (1450$) so there are a lot of collectors with cash who don't follow KKF
Better or Beater?beeter
Yet the Flipper market seems willing to pay a bit more for the KU Katos. I’m no expert on any of this, just an observer.KU is the cheapest of all Katos to buy new (IF you manage to score one). Makes sense to me
Better or Beater?
A better beater?
Much better. And a beater since it keeps its looks after months of use. Plus so easy to sharpen and maintain. But you have both so you know what i meanBetter or Beater?
There is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
There is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
Name pleaseThere is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
Nombre, por favor.There is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
Sounds like a pawn shop.There is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
имя, пожалуйстаThere is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
I shared the name with the Mods. Not sure if its appropriate to share it here. If anyone wants to DM me, feel free.
Don't ALL knife stores/ retailers do this? Not to be rude, but this seems to be a model used the vast majority.
Wasn't this the sOreal selling strategy? Buy low on the forums and flip high. At the very least its shadyI’m assuming bcos is talking about someone quickly buying up knives that are being sold publicly, and then reselling at a higher price with minimal added value. That’s different than how most of the vendors we talk about work. But yea, it’s hard to distinguish between normal vendor behavior and abnormal without details.
I've often wondered how such a shop operates. First of all, it would have to be started by a keen knife collector to know which knives are good value. But for knives which are very high in demand, it might not be able to be the first to press the buy button or DM button. For other expensive picks, they might not sell at the price it wants to profit with or it might lack market demand and not sell at all. It's a flipping store so it doesn't have makers supplying directly with a distrubtor discount. But there is a pressure by its cusomers to keep supplying great knives to keep up its reputation amongst its customers. So it might have to pick up things which don't sell as well. Assuming the store is used by its knife collector owner to earn a little extra to support his own knife collection, the collector takes a huge risk that the knives bought for flipping end up being an ever increasing inventory tying up his capital. It would seem that in the end the collector will have a collection of knives which he might like but not love because the gems have all been sold and the rest do not shine as brightly. So while we might frown on flipping, I'd have to wish this collector good luck with his business model.There is a new knife shop vendor that appears to buy knives and immediately flip them for profit on his retail site. It appears to be his main business model. Not a very honorable way to make a living.
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