@KAMON Knives a very fair and balanced rebuttal. For what it's worth, I do agree with a large portion of your points and understand where you're coming from. I did mention alternative approaches that I find more fit my own subjective judgement of fairness, but you said fairness wasn't a priority so they won't carry much water.
You're probably right that there's a shadow secondary market that isn't visible on BST, through DMs and such, since public BST pricing is basically equal to cost. I would argue that MSRP is also a matter of anchoring the perception of value. Even though people might say that a knife is cheap for what it is (Shindo?), it's rare that you see (though again, maybe in DMs?) someone asking for significantly more than that price.
But as I said, it's your choice, you just can't expect everyone to think it's virtuous to charge as much as possible as long as there's sufficient demand. I promise I'm not mad at you personally, or bitter that I'm priced out, or jealous, or any of the other overly easy explanations for someone being salty on the internet. I've just never been one to support overly conspicuous consumption, and my disagreements are mostly philosophical rather than specific to you as a maker or person.
Also, I do applaud you for the Gen3 project as well for making a more utilitarian product.
You're probably right that there's a shadow secondary market that isn't visible on BST, through DMs and such, since public BST pricing is basically equal to cost. I would argue that MSRP is also a matter of anchoring the perception of value. Even though people might say that a knife is cheap for what it is (Shindo?), it's rare that you see (though again, maybe in DMs?) someone asking for significantly more than that price.
But as I said, it's your choice, you just can't expect everyone to think it's virtuous to charge as much as possible as long as there's sufficient demand. I promise I'm not mad at you personally, or bitter that I'm priced out, or jealous, or any of the other overly easy explanations for someone being salty on the internet. I've just never been one to support overly conspicuous consumption, and my disagreements are mostly philosophical rather than specific to you as a maker or person.
Also, I do applaud you for the Gen3 project as well for making a more utilitarian product.