Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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Yeah, anyone with an Internet connection can get the discount code. It's not even limited to forum members.
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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I like the color a lot.
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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bdblue wrote:
I was put off because they were playing favorites with the pricing so I didn't order one.
This is humor, right? The code was publicly posted. The knife was done as a special thank you to forum members. If this makes you unhappy, I have no idea how anyone could ever satisfy you.
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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Sorry

My phone is acting weird.

I'm totally not unhappy.

I love the knife. It just cost to much for me right now.
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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The color is great, the price is great, the steel is great!
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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Not my color.I dont hate it,but its a deal breaker for me.I dont own a single brown thing...
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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spyderwolf wrote:I dont own a single brown thing...
Different strokes, but I doubt the veracity of this claim... No brown shoes, belt, or anything made of wood? :D

I would contend that I don't own any brown folders, but obviously this shade of maroon isn't everyone's cup of tea... I still can't seem to snap a photo that really captures how it typically looks to me in person.

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I've also given some more thought to what Bdblue said. With something like the 2013 forum knife that sold out extremely fast and where demand easily exceeded supply, it seems unlikely that there would be many (if any) cases where someone ordered one without the discount code.

With this one though, it seems like they greatly increased the size of the run and they still have plenty of inventory weeks after release. I suppose that the further we get from the intial drop, the more likely it is that interested customers will either assume they missed it or go directly to the online store and not be aware of the discount (& balk at the price). It might help to just show it as on sale for the 40% without any code, to list the code on the product page, or even to keep the annoucement stickied here.

I know some of it is "new knife syndrome" but I am still surprised how much I'm liking the Native 5 lw. Never carried the g-10 much, but this one went right in my pocket and has stayed there.
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Not even a pen:).Even my furniture is gray.But as you said,different strokes...
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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Color and knife are great! I like the subtlety of the red/brown scale color, it seems like a darker shade of terracotta to me.
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Personally, I like the forum knife's brownish color more than I would a classic maroon, burgundy, or ox blood, but those would be OK with me too. I like the fact that it's a more unusual color and think that's more appropriate for a forum knife as was mentioned above.

I don't understand the objection to the listed MSRP of $159.95, since all the knives in the catalog have an MSRP which is greater than the big dealer or online dealer price. I've been buying camera gear, camping gear, optics, etc, from big dealers and discount houses by phone and online for over 40 years and they've always had a "street price" much lower than the MSRP. In my experience street prices are usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% of the MSRP, but many small shops with high overhead and low volume sell at MSRP and I've even paid higher than MSRP a couple of times at small dealers.

I've never worked in sales management or studied business administration, but I've always assumed that manufacturers would get in trouble pretty quick if they undersold their retailers and that was why they listed something generally regarded as the maximum price.

I guess the objection is that the discounted price was not widely advertised as it is in the cases I mentioned. But, for anybody to even know about the forum knife before it was released, they would almost have to have seen the thread announcing it on this forum or to have talked to somebody who did (unless they found it by randomly scanning through the online catalog). And the discount code was prominently mentioned in the first post announcing the knife. Also I've noticed from reading these forums that sometimes people pay the catalog MSRP of other knives when ordering from the catalog -- it's a legitimate way to sell stuff :)

Forum membership is not required for use of the FORUM2015 discount code -- anybody can use it. I have to admit I'm glad it was not advertised any more than it was, because I haven't got around to buying one yet and there's still some left :D

I do have one gripe. When I searched for "Forum Knife" in a topic title and even specified tazkristi as the author, the search engine got no hits and returned the message that two of the words in my search, "forum" and "knife" were ignored because they were too common :rolleyes: It would have been nice if it had searched for them as a combination rather than as individual words. I put them in quotes and it still regarded them as individual words and didn't search. I've had the same problem with searches involving dates or other numbers.

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I really like the color myself. I would love to see more S90V in this color frn.
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bearfacedkiller wrote:I really like the color myself. I would love to see more S90V in this color frn.
Me too. I like vibrant colors too, don't get me wrong, but there's something relaxing about this color. Gives off nice vibes, IMHO. ;)
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SpyderNut wrote:I like vibrant colors too, don't get me wrong, but there's something relaxing about this color.
I like vibrant colors too but for my EDC the slightly more subdued colors are better. The orange PM2 that came out a few years ago was awesome, but too bright for me to carry most of the time. I have a blue Tenacious and had a blue PM2. Depending on what I was wearing they would work or not work. When I finally got the dark green PM2 it worked for me no matter what I was wearing so I sold the blue PM2. Lots of us have been lobbying for red G10 on something like the PM2, but in reality I would be better off with something like a darker burgundy.
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I like the color and the price... I'm really happy with the knife. I also like that they are still in stock a few weeks later to allow for everyone who wants one to purchase it. I think Spyderco did a great job with this release.
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Re: Do You Like the Color of the 2015 Forum Knife?

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I don't have it in hand yet, so can't speak to the color. I would prefer something distinctly in the red family if it's being called burgundy, maroon, wine, whatever … not generally a fan of "brown" knives, but it will be my first FRN Native 5, and in S90V for under a "buck", it can go ahead and be brown.

So … not sure of the color yet, but I do like the publicly announced discount code.

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Love the color, love the knife, love the deal!!!

I wasn't a fan of the purple forum native, and ended up trading my pair away. The 2015 forum native, however, has been a daily carry since I received it!

Thanks again to the Spyderco crew!

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Got mine this week. Added a lanyard and a schmuckatelli bead. [EDIT] Oops - my bad - not a schmuckatelli bead! Also wanted to add that I like the color (still looks more brown to me) and the blade arrived wicked sharp and very smooth to cut phone book paper.

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I wonder if people will be getting rid of theirs when the S110V FRN model comes out.
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Donut wrote:I wonder if people will be getting rid of theirs when the S110V FRN model comes out.
I am sure that some people, who have extraordinary love to numbers will do this. Also some of the people who love blue and do not like the color of this knife.
But the rest of us will keep Forum knife for at least two reasons. First of all, this is the Forum knife. And second how many will see a difference in performance?
I am keeping my Forum knife.
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bh49 wrote:
Donut wrote:I wonder if people will be getting rid of theirs when the S110V FRN model comes out.
I am sure that some people, who have extraordinary love to numbers will do this. Also some of the people who love blue and do not like the color of this knife.
But the rest of us will keep Forum knife for at least two reasons. First of all, this is the Forum knife. And second how many will see a difference in performance?
I am keeping my Forum knife.
Ditto.

Plus, I can't stand blue handles.
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