Knife Works Para2 up for preorder

PMBohol · #741

This sounds like throwing meat out to a bunch of starving dogs to me. I'll bet KW will have better planning on the next exclusive run ,,,,, if there is one.

chuck_roxas45 · #742

SDR wrote:Yes. I was on the "courtesy wait list." Yes. I was notified a couple of days ago. Yes. I contacted KW the moment I was notified. Yes. I was told that I would have to wait until Thursday morning. Yes. I was there the very instant that they became available this morning. Yes. I had one in my cart. Yes. I got a server error when I tried to pay for it. Yes. I tried again and the second time 8 knives showed up in my cart upon checkout for a total of $1119.00 Yes. I updated my cart to reflect only one knife. Yes. Their server was running slow as molasses. Yes. I had one knife in my cart when I hit submit for the payment. Yes. My page refreshed and suddenly I had zero knives in my cart. No. I did not get a knife! Yes. I am extremely disappointed!

Unless you were on KW's website at 8 am this morning to experience that meltdown firsthand then perhaps you should just zip it!

I am always amazed when unaffected people jump in to defend the indefensible.

Cheers! Life goes on.

You should have bought all 8 and flipped them for $300 each. I bet a lot of people would have defended your right to do that. :D

FCM415 · #743

chuck_roxas45 wrote:You should have bought all 8 and flipped them for $300 each. I bet a lot of people would have defended your right to do that. :D

Ripping people off with the free market banner held up high like a holy cross. :D

Price gouging is not a synonym of capitalism.

chuck_roxas45 · #744

FCM415 wrote:Ripping people off with the free market banner held up high like a holy cross. :D

Price gouging is not a synonym of capitalism.

I guess some people equate price gouging with freedom too. :D

senorsquare · #745

chuck_roxas45 wrote:i guess some people equate price gouging with freedom too. :d

freeeeeeeeddooooommmmmm!!!!!!

FCM415 · #746

chuck_roxas45 wrote:I guess some people equate price gouging with freedom too. :D

With gusto!

CarbonFiberNut · #747

FCM415 wrote:With gusto!

and peanut butter?

(amidoinitrite?)

Philo Beddoe · #748

Capitalism? Is that what city hall is calling it now daze? Every time I get my tax bill I'm reminded they are the king of capitalist :mad:

arjay18 · #749

Clip wrote:Interesting you said it was quite short. When I called last week asking them to verify my name on the list from last year sometime, they told me it was over 200 people long.

When I said quite short, I was pertaining to the wait. I knew that they were going to release all they had left on June 13 8am CST.

Donut · #750

In my opinion, they should do a second run, but the collectors and flippers complain a lot when that happens.

Ferris Wheels · #751

Has anyone seen the horse? I think we may have beaten it into a parallel dimension.

linuxology · #752

Kw should stay away from sprints. It was handled horribly.

xceptnl · #753

linuxology wrote:Kw should stay away from sprints. It was handled horribly.

It was a dealer exclusive not a sprint and I think KW has handled the situation as best they could. The delay (IMO) caused alot of the tensions and harsh feeling being unjustly cast on Knifeworks. I'm sorry not every person whom wanted this didn't get one, but it happens. I think people should point their crosshairs on a different target when looking to place blame.

chuck_roxas45 · #754

Donut wrote:In my opinion, they should do a second run, but the collectors and flippers complain a lot when that happens.

That is so sad...

linuxology wrote:Kw should stay away from sprints. It was handled horribly.

The scramble for the knives was what complicated the handling and made it what it was.

Previous sprints weren't as drama loaded as this one and most of the drama just happened after the sprints turned up in the secondary market at inflated prices. In a way we can blame the speculators for driving the market crazy.

How long the the prices on the S90V military remain reasonable on the secondary market when was first released? The secondary market wasn't so crazy back then.

JudasD · #755

Ferris Wheels wrote:Has anyone seen the horse? I think we may have beaten it into a parallel dimension.

LOL! This thread needed a little comedy. this is good stuff.

JD

AKWolf · #756

Thank you Roger C. and Spyderco for this piece. The build quality is excellent.

shunsui · #757

Have to say I like what Bento Box Shop has done with their M390 exclusive. I recall there was a lot of complaining about the supposedly high price back when, but now that they are looking at a third round of the blue M390 Para2, I think they might have the right business model.

arjay18 · #758

The only problem I have is how KW handled the backup list. They should have walked through the list first instead of releasing it free for all. What was the point of the backup list if you were just going to sell the remainder to the public in a first come first serve basis. Sheeeeesh!!! :mad:

chuck_roxas45 · #759

shunsui wrote:Have to say I like what Bento Box Shop has done with their M390 exclusive. I recall there was a lot of complaining about the supposedly high price back when, but now that they are looking at a third round of the blue M390 Para2, I think they might have the right business model.

Yep, I already suggested that in a couple threads.

bdblue · #760

DougC-3 wrote:Looks like at least some people got an "email a few days ago" "announcing availability in the store." I have to assume they were available "in the store" only for people on the backup list.

I was on the backup list for 14 months. I got an email 2 days ago and I was real happy, then I started wondering how it was going to be handled and realized it was going to be a free-for-all. In reality they released the available knives to the whole world, there was nothing in the process that kept anybody with an internet connection from buying one.

I was on their website about 7:45 this morning in order to be sure that I was logged in and to try to find out where on the website they would be released. They had the GPM2 as a normal product on their website, but out of stock. So at 8 they just entered the number that they had in stock and let it run. Somewhere between 7:50 and 7:55 the website become overwhelmed and it would take 30 seconds or more to refresh. Actually about 8:02 real time is when they became in stock. I hit "check out" immediately, and started navigating through the multitude of screens to check out, probably 5 or 6 different screens. I already had my shipping info. entered so I was just hitting "next" time after time. When I entered the credit card number and hit submit, I started getting server errors. It took about 11 minutes to get to this point. After the server error there were no more to be had so I had to give up.

There are lots of disgruntled people that were hoping to buy one of the knives and I'm one of them. I see a few people that are defending KW, I think those people are the ones that already got their knives, maybe they are the flippers. I'm just going to have to disagree with them and leave it at that.

I'm really interested in the possible upcoming Manix sprint but I don't have any faith in KW's selling procedures. I would search for the S30V version but they have proven impossible to find so far, or I'll buy a substitute like a ZT0200.