Tracking the prices of knives over the years

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vivi
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Tracking the prices of knives over the years

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I've been going through some old documents, and among them are knife receipts.

Thought it'd be neat to have a thread where people post theirs too. Email invoices, paper receipts, price stickers still on the box....any of those is fine.

Here's a faded New Graham receipt from a few years back for a Yojimbo 2 @ $125

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Re: Tracking the prices of knives over the years

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I have a Dell Alienware that went down over a year ago and those internal drives have the most recent information on the knives and prices paid over the years (before I sold off 1/2 of them off).

I have several other external WD Drives where things were backed up, and unfortunately WD sold me a bad drive and that drive was a complete backup of the internal drives on the Dell Alienware. My Dell Alienware holds 3 SSDs...and there is nothing wrong with the drives but at the moment I do not have a system to park them in to get at the data.

If things change, I'll post all the data that I have.
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Re: Tracking the prices of knives over the years

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Did a quick search in my inbox
A Benchmade 940-2 (G-10) was one of the first knives I ordered domestically in Norway after I got into (folding)knives.
In August of 2016 I paid NOK1469 (USD141 at current exchange rate). A similarly quick search on Google shopping returned one domestic store offering the 940-2 at NOK3499 (USD336 at current exchange rate).
The store is one that usually competes well on price, so the price is likely to be a fair deal in todays market, and still it's almost 2.4 times the price I paid a little under 8 years ago. Sold it after a year or so, so no chance of cashing in on that "investment" now.

I may find more snapshots of cutlery pricing history if I dig deeper, but that's all I got for now.
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