MatthewVanitas
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I think I'll pull back on the up-stocking now...
I've been buying up give-away knives. As I've gotten better at it, I've gone from 99c/per to 60c to 50c, and now am down to about 30c/per. I can get these really crude little things that are like one arm of a Leatherman for 20c/per, but though that the used SAK-knockoffs at 30c were a better bargain.
I bought two separate eBay lots, totalling 46 pounds worth of knives (probably mostly confiscations). Total cost: $160 shipped. From what I've seen, cheap pocketknives run about 10/lb, and this lot came astonishingly close to 460 knives.
Only a couple broken pieces in the lot, most are pretty recognizable mass-import Chinese pieces. Unfortunately, the scroungers did a pretty good sort, so ZERO decent knives slipped into this lot. Best I've ever found in confiscation-lots was a Camillus Silver Sword lockback, and even that is only worth maybe $10.
Still, not a bad haul. I anticipate these lasting me for the rest of the year or so (he says now). I don't so much give out one in the average day, so much as I go in spurts. When I go out for the evening on the weekend, I usually give out about a dozen, even putting them in tip jars when I didn't even buy anything.
Bit of an odd hobby, but cheaper than most, and keeps me out of trouble.
-MV
I've been buying up give-away knives. As I've gotten better at it, I've gone from 99c/per to 60c to 50c, and now am down to about 30c/per. I can get these really crude little things that are like one arm of a Leatherman for 20c/per, but though that the used SAK-knockoffs at 30c were a better bargain.
I bought two separate eBay lots, totalling 46 pounds worth of knives (probably mostly confiscations). Total cost: $160 shipped. From what I've seen, cheap pocketknives run about 10/lb, and this lot came astonishingly close to 460 knives.
Only a couple broken pieces in the lot, most are pretty recognizable mass-import Chinese pieces. Unfortunately, the scroungers did a pretty good sort, so ZERO decent knives slipped into this lot. Best I've ever found in confiscation-lots was a Camillus Silver Sword lockback, and even that is only worth maybe $10.
Still, not a bad haul. I anticipate these lasting me for the rest of the year or so (he says now). I don't so much give out one in the average day, so much as I go in spurts. When I go out for the evening on the weekend, I usually give out about a dozen, even putting them in tip jars when I didn't even buy anything.
Bit of an odd hobby, but cheaper than most, and keeps me out of trouble.
-MV
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