As November rolls near, my thoughts turn to the hope that there will again be a Fall SFO Seconds sale...I hope that there will be such, even if I cannot attend. If there is, and if anyone from DFW is going, let me know...
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SFO Fall Factory Seconds sale??
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Monkeywrangler
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SFO Fall Factory Seconds sale??
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Don't the trees look like crucified thieves?
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MSgt. Timothy Roy Bodden
Don't the sun look angry through the trees?
Don't the trees look like crucified thieves?
What surprised me last year was that I didn't get any notice from Spyderco of the sale despite making a number of SFO purchases. Is it only the SFO customers who make purchases while physically at the store who are notified and not the phone and internet customers?
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I'm spending Thanksgiving in Boulder, so I will definitely be making a pilgrimage to SFO while I'm there (my first!). It would be just awesome if it happened to be around the same time.
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Want list: ZDP Stretch, Original and New Yojimbos, Perrin PPT
My wish-existed list: More MBC-esque blades.
I should be in Denver the weekend of November 18th, so I'm hoping Spyderco will do what they did last year and have it the weekend before Thanksgiving.
The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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Right now, it's looking like we won't have one this year. There really aren't enough 2nd's saved in the past year to serve the group that would attend. We also had some issues that were expressed after the last one and we'll need to find some solutions. Sorry.
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I could solve the problem.
If I worked on the production line I guarantee there would be plenty of factory seconds every year.
If I worked on the production line I guarantee there would be plenty of factory seconds every year.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
It was pretty ridiculous last year. Some people dropped 1-2k and then turned around and sold almost everything that they bought online for 2, 3, even 7 times more then they paid!
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I was thinking about this last year and in reading this thread I just had a great idea for making the sale more fun for Spyderco lovers and less fun for speculators:
Buying up to 3 knives - marked price
Buying 4 to 6 knives - marked price + 10%
Buying 6 to 9 knives - marked price + 20%
Buying 9 to 12 knives - marked price + 30%
Buying 13 to 15 knives - marked price + 40%
Some of the resold knives, for example regular Militaries, were sold on ebay for zero profit after sales tax and ebay fees. The Cats and Chicagos were the ones that sold at a high multiple of their $10 cost. I think a scheme like the above would be simple and take the profit out of reselling.
If Spyderco would let us know what models were being sold at what price ahead of time we could alert them to the ones whose high ebay prices would attract speculators and those could be one to a customer, or simply have their prices raised.
Buying up to 3 knives - marked price
Buying 4 to 6 knives - marked price + 10%
Buying 6 to 9 knives - marked price + 20%
Buying 9 to 12 knives - marked price + 30%
Buying 13 to 15 knives - marked price + 40%
Some of the resold knives, for example regular Militaries, were sold on ebay for zero profit after sales tax and ebay fees. The Cats and Chicagos were the ones that sold at a high multiple of their $10 cost. I think a scheme like the above would be simple and take the profit out of reselling.
If Spyderco would let us know what models were being sold at what price ahead of time we could alert them to the ones whose high ebay prices would attract speculators and those could be one to a customer, or simply have their prices raised.
Our reason is quite satisfied, in 999 cases out of every 1000 of us, if we can find a few arguments that will do to recite in case our credulity is criticized by someone else. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
- William James, from The Will to Believe, a guest lecture at Yale University in 1897
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Genius!Sequimite wrote:I was thinking about this last year and in reading this thread I just had a great idea for making the sale more fun for Spyderco lovers and less fun for speculators:
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I went last year. I went very early and thought I had a good place in line. I was wrong. The first 5% of the line in the door filled their carts with everything, then went into a corner to pick through their pile and throw back the rejects. I left only buying 1 knife. I won't go back. Not worth the time and frozen toes. I can't compete with the folks willing to camp overnight to horde everything in the store.
Maybe the best way to handle this is to limit purchases to 3 or 4 knives per person, with the option of getting in the back of the line if you still want more.jtoler_9 wrote:I went last year. I went very early and thought I had a good place in line. I was wrong. The first 5% of the line in the door filled their carts with everything, then went into a corner to pick through their pile and throw back the rejects. I left only buying 1 knife. I won't go back. Not worth the time and frozen toes. I can't compete with the folks willing to camp overnight to horde everything in the store.
The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
