ugaarguy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:20 pm
Chapp wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 3:56 pm
ugaarguy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 2:35 pm
Still showing available 3.5 hours after launch. How long did the first batch of the BHQ Tanto PM2s last? I wonder if the availability of so many Seki back locks with wharnie blades; plus the Canis, Yojimbo, and Yojumbo;
have tempered demand for this blade shape, even in a PM2.
Lol, the Tanto went out of stocks very fast.
I know some people want to think everything as equal or want to believe their tastes are the norm, but we don't need to be geniuses to figure a
Tanto PM2 would be way more popular than a PM2 wharncliff.
It just comes down to that. If you read the forum, you'd think wharncliff and serrated edge are popular. Outside of the forum is a very different story.
Yet, historically tantos have not sold well for Spyderco. And in the real world, wharncliffes have sold so well for Spyderco that they offer the blade shape on several models. You don't have to make snide remarks and put words in my mouth. I'm also well aware that my tastes aren't the norm. I don't like the way the PM2 and Para 3 feel in my hand. I'm from the deep south of the US. I like to eat boiled peanuts, fried pork rinds, and sweet onions. Other southerners think I'm weird because I don't like raw tomatoes. But I also like sushi, sashimi, and single malt Scotch. I embraced my weirdness long ago.
I don't necessarily think that these are accurate statements.
I think we sometimes underestimate the power of BladeHQ's marketing & social media.. They do more of it than pretty much any other shop I know of and it has led to some extremely popular drops. For example, the PM2 Tanto..
I recall seeing posts about the Tanto on BHQ's facebook, instantgram, on silly youtube videos, here on the forum, etc. weeks in advance of the drop. And I think Eric actually teased it in a Blade Show video months prior to that. There were pages and pages of chatter about it here on the forum. I don't pretend to be someone who spends a whole lot of time on the internet or looking at social media, but
even I heard about the PM2 Tanto well ahead of the drop because I follow just a handful of knife groups that all posted about it ad nauseam! And sure enough, day of, the Tantos sell out almost immediately, because everyone and their mother has decided they wanted one by then.. websites crash and calamity ensues.
By contrast, Cutlery Shoppe released a lone instagram postabout the PM2 Wharncliffe
two days before it dropped, seemingly out of thin air! And it seems that's it?! It gained a little bit of traction here on the forum, but hardly any compared to the Tanto. I also saw a singular post about the PM2 Wharncliffe on one of Spyderco's social accounts. Compared with BHQ, the marketing here is next to nothing on this model. And still, 900 PM2 Wharncliffes sell out in a day! That's wild! I'd call that an incredible success for CS and plenty popular in its own right given the level of "marketing" for this specific model..
Actually, thinking on this now, I almost kind of wish more shops would handle drops like CS did with this one.. It might give more true Spyderco nuts a shot at them before the internet decides they are "popular" and they sell out in only a few minutes..
Rick H.
..well, that escalated quickly..
's in 10 different steels
