Spyderco Pink Native Donations

[Toad310]

I think it is fantastic that Spyderco has produced a pink knife, and made donations to help with breast cancer.

I just added the Pink Native to my collection, and recently my wife and daughter gave me a pink Strider PT as a gift.

I find it very sad that Mick Strider made his pink model as a "Girl Friend" knife with no donations. Sad indeed.

Boo to Strider for this. I lost my mom to cancer, and I really admire companies like Spyderco for what they are doing. I will be buying a few more Pink Natives to give out as gifts

Come on Mick....

[Lord vader]

I think it is fantastic that Spyderco has produced a pink knife, and made donations to help with breast cancer.

I just added the Pink Native to my collection, and recently my wife and daughter gave me a pink Strider PT as a gift.

I find it very sad that Mick Strider made his pink model as a "Girl Friend" knife with no donations. Sad indeed.

Boo to Strider for this. I lost my mom to cancer, and I really admire companies like Spyderco for what they are doing. I will be buying a few more Pink Natives to give out as gifts

Come on Mick....

That is a good cause and i know spyderco has a big heart,I am going to buy two of them,one for my wife and one for my collection.

[markg]

Ah, um... Picking a fight with Mick Strider tends not to go well...

Being a small custom/semi-custom maker the volume of a "charity knife" for them would almost not be worth it.

Mick does support our troops, and proceeds from the Kershaw/Strider collaborations go to help disabled vets.

[TazKristi]

How about Shiny Footprints...

[Toad310]

Ah, um... Picking a fight with Mick Strider tends not to go well...

Being a small custom/semi-custom maker the volume of a "charity knife" for them would almost not be worth it.

Mick does support our troops, and proceeds from the Kershaw/Strider collaborations go to help disabled vets.

First and foremost, I have a fairly large collection of Strider kinves, and that makes me a good customer of his company. Now, with that said I can express my feelings in this matter freely.

My point is he charges $300 dollars for the pink GF model, and you are telling me he could not send ten bucks from the sale of each one to the breast cancer cause.

We all have ladies in our lives, and want to keep them around.

My company has donated our services for free over the years to this cause. Trust me, he can afford it.

As I said earlier...come on Mick!

[Toad310]

How about Shiny Footprints...

No worries, I am not trying to start anything...just wanted to point something out that I believe in. I will be polite.

[Toad310]

That is a good cause and i know spyderco has a big heart,I am going to buy two of them,one for my wife and one for my collection.

My Lord:

I too am going to pick up several to give out to people.

It is a great knife, and I like the pink.

Thanks!

All the best,

Toad310

[Jimd]

Toad, I'm not trying to be argumentative, but Strider has, in fact, donated to quite a few charities, including children's charities, as well as donating to our armed forces.

[aj1985]

I know Strider and I know Spyderco

Everyone does the best they can. Who are we to Judge. (Shiny Foot prints)

Strider has done some wonderful things, and my collection speaks volumes that Spyderco will be my only my only production knife company within this lifetime.

aj

p.s I may grab a piece from here and there though :D

[redyps04]

Not to sound picky, but I just wish Spyderco made a pink Ladybug. It just seems like it would appeal to more women and sell more. My girlfriend, for example, loves pink and would love to support the cause, but thinks the Native is too big. If :spyder: made a pink Ladybug, I would be able to by at least one for my girlfriend and mom, and maybe 1 or 2 more for anyone else I could find. Am I the only one on this?

[Toad310]

Toad, I'm not trying to be argumentative, but Strider has, in fact, donated to quite a few charities, including children's charities, as well as donating to our armed forces.

Guy's...I am not trying to start anything. All I am trying to say is that Hundreds of companies have made pink products, and donated a cut to cancer. Mick takes advantage of the pink rage of the day, and calls his pink knife a girl friend knife.

To me, it just seems a little tacky. Mick is a millionaire from his business, and he should have done what everyone else in the country did with their pink products, and made a small donation.

Really, I am not out to start anything, but you mention Mick's name, and people get upset for no reason.

For the record: I lOVE Mick, and his knives.

Hope you get what I am trying to say.

Best,

Toad310

[Toad310]

Not to sound picky, but I just wish Spyderco made a pink Ladybug. It just seems like it would appeal to more women and sell more. My girlfriend, for example, loves pink and would love to support the cause, but thinks the Native is too big. If :spyder: made a pink Ladybug, I would be able to by at least one for my girlfriend and mom, and maybe 1 or 2 more for anyone else I could find. Am I the only one on this?

Sounds like a wonderful Idea.

Let me ask the members here: did they make a pink Cricket at one point? That would be a great knife for a girl. My wife loves her cricket. She has the original aluminum model.

I would buy a ton of the pink Ladybugs to pass out to people.

Toad310

[Toad310]

Not to sound picky, but I just wish Spyderco made a pink Ladybug. It just seems like it would appeal to more women and sell more. My girlfriend, for example, loves pink and would love to support the cause, but thinks the Native is too big. If :spyder: made a pink Ladybug, I would be able to by at least one for my girlfriend and mom, and maybe 1 or 2 more for anyone else I could find. Am I the only one on this?

My teenage daughter's eyes lit up when she saw my purple Ladybug. I think I will give it to her. Girls do like knives, but I agree with Redysp04 in that they Don't like big knives.

Teens love purple and pink.

[Netsquash]

I support Cancer donations and everything like that but just because something is pink does not automatically mean it should be a breast cancer product. AIDs use the red line, should Spyderco be giving $10 on all their trainers? Green has been tagged by depression support foundations, should they give $10 to them? Oh and Purple and light blue has been tagged by IBS, yes, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Should they give $10 there? What about lime green for Lyme disease?

Colours should not be monopolized for special interest. Just because a special interest group use a tiny part of the visible radio spectrum does not mean they should have control over it with implied usage. I find a flaw in the logic that a colour when used should have special financial responsibilities around it.

This marking off of colours by special interest groups has be a major pet peve of mine lately. It seems like ever colour has been claimed and you can't do anything with that colour without someone having some sort of idea that there is an implied usage of that colour with all kinds of expectations surrounding it. It's just a frigin colour people like it, no it's not a "Sharing Christ with those who don't know Him" forrest green knife, it's just a friggin forest green knife.

/RANT

[The Deacon]

Toad, I would not number myself among Strider supporters by any means, but fair is fair, and your comment is not. Perhaps you are unaware, but Spyderco has, in the past, produced other pink models where no donation was made, should we fault them for this?

Whatever your personal feelings on the subject, there are others with widely different views. Nestsquash has made an excellent point and there are other others as well.

Many people have their own "pet cause", so there are those who will feel resentful that a company donated to "Cause A" and not to "Cause B".

Within any "cause" there are often multiple groups competing for funds. There ware those who will disagree with a company's choice of recipients because they believe that particular group is mismanaged and another group would use the money more effectively.

There are folks who believe that publicly announced corporate donations tied to a product are a just another sales gimmick.

Believe it or not, there are even people who believe that finding cures for more and more diseases is a bad idea, since anything which decreases the death rate increases the population growth rate of an already over populated planet.

In reality, when it comes to corporate charitable contributions, the only thing one could legitimately fault a company for would be claiming to make a donation and not doing so.

[Toad310]

I support Cancer donations and everything like that but just because something is pink does not automatically mean it should be a breast cancer product. AIDs use the red line, should Spyderco be giving $10 on all their trainers? Green has been tagged by depression support foundations, should they give $10 to them? Oh and Purple and light blue has been tagged by IBS, yes, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Should they give $10 there? What about lime green for Lyme disease?

Colours should not be monopolized for special interest. Just because a special interest group use a tiny part of the visible radio spectrum does not mean they should have control over it with implied usage. I find a flaw in the logic that a colour when used should have special financial responsibilities around it.

This marking off of colours by special interest groups has be a major pet peve of mine lately. It seems like ever colour has been claimed and you can't do anything with that colour without someone having some sort of idea that there is an implied usage of that colour with all kinds of expectations surrounding it. It's just a frigin colour people like it, no it's not a "Sharing Christ with those who don't know Him" forrest green knife, it's just a friggin forest green knife.

/RANT

Netsquash,

Here is how I see it with Mick: At the current point in time, companies around the world are making items in pink, that they would not normally make in that color for the sole purpose of a donation to breast cancer.

So, Strider comes out with a military style knife in pink, following the trend, and offers no donation. All the other businesses did.

Ten years ago, a pink knife would have been a pink knife. Today, it signals to people that you have supported that cause.

Hey, it is not the end of the world, however, it just looks very, very greedy...tacky!


You know something...it is not too late for Srtider to send off a nice check to the cancer society. Spyderco donated!

I would be proud of them if they did that.

Come on Mick...

[The Deacon]

Doesn't Strider have a forum of their own? Would that not be a more suitable place to post your feelings toward their business practices?

[Toad310]

Doesn't Strider have a forum of their own? Would that not be a more suitable place to post your feelings toward their business practices?

Deacon,

Maybe you coud answer the question of the pink cricket?

Look, I am not trying to say anything other that Strider seems like a opportunist of the times. That's all.

I plan to buy around 25, and pass them out.

With all the best,

Toad310

[The Deacon]

Yes, Spyderco did make a pink FRN Cricket at one time. They now command rather fantastic prices when they show up for sale. No donations from those, but that was long before the current association of pink with breast cancer research, so in that sense it didn't count. There were also pink Ladybugs and pink Jesters at one time, again pre-dating the current situation where some folks seem to feel manufacturers are required to pay for the right to use pink.

You might want to look at this thread from a year or so ago, when the Pink Delica and Endura 4 Sprint Runs came out.

[CombatGrappler]

Netsquash,

Here is how I see it with Mick: At the current point in time, companies around the world are making items in pink, that they would not normally make in that color for the sole purpose of a donation to breast cancer.

So, Strider comes out with a military style knife in pink, following the trend, and offers no donation. All the other businesses did.

Ten years ago, a pink knife would have been a pink knife. Today, it signals to people that you have supported that cause.

Hey, it is not the end of the world, however, it just looks very, very greedy...tacky!


You know something...it is not too late for Srtider to send off a nice check to the cancer society. Spyderco donated!

I would be proud of them if they did that.

Come on Mick...

If you want to start a thinly veiled Strider bashing thread, could you at least take it to Off-topic? Because that's what Strider's business practices are. Off-topic according to the title of your original post and off-topic for this forum.