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What used to be a threshold of $200 for a Spyderco knife in 2019 has now literally become $250 due to two MAP changes in 2020 and 2024 plus some big jumps in MSRP during the pandemic specially in 2022. Your $200 limit now buys you a noticeably less Spyderco knife than in December 2019.

Brummie wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:54 am

Certainly becoming harder to justify buying Spyderco. I just bought these three Maxace products for the same price as a Lil Temp in VG10 and FRN.

The Lil’ Temp with VG-10 & FRN for a dealer price of $189.00 is a good example of some of Spyderco’s absurd pricing no matter how you slice it.

The Spyderco App says the blade coating is DLC. The BladeHQ price of $135.95 for Manix2 CPM-M4 DLC FRCP is great considering the regular production Manix2 CTS-BD1N DLC FRCP is $153.75.

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The KnifeJoy Slysz Bowie exclusive for $450 is not as outrageous as it seems. A plain Chris Reeve Large Sebenza 31 MagnaCut is now $500. Both are very well made with matte titanium and crowned blade spine. CRK still has no Lockbar Insert/Overtravel Stop for the titanium frame lock. CRK has a nicer t...

Southard Tolk (all titanium bronze anodized & 3.875" XHP), Spyderco Southard Black (3.46" 204P), Spyderco Southard (custom LSCF scale & overtravel stop) and Spyderco Positron (3" S30V).

It took a while but I just received the hard copy 2024 Product Guide. Looks great and a pleasure to browse through. Thank you Spyderco for the printed catalog.

RugerNurse wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:37 pm

Price reduced on the Waterway at DLT

A better place to post such deals is in this thread:
Crazy Good Deals Part 2!!

After reading this, I tried to remember what I paid for the OG Slysz Bowie. I can't remember, and cannot find that info in my email at this moment. If I had to guess, I'd say around $375, and that was probably circa 2015. The OG Slysz Bowie C186Ti - Stonewash Ti- PE - CTS-XHP was in production from...

Spyderco had serious issues with the ball bearing pivot on the Advocate. It was withdrawn to redesign and never recovered.

Goodness, I remember when that went down with Ketchen. And he wasn't the only scale maker to flake out. Remember Shepard Scales? The Lightning Strike Carbon Fiber (LSCF) scale and overtravel stop for my Southard was made by Shepard (Shepard Custom Concealment). It was a real pain dealing with him w...

RugerNurse wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:33 am

Restocked at DLT Trading

ParaMilitary2 CPM-S90V with Satin (JUN 2023) or Black DLC (AUG 2022) Blade & Teal G-10 are MGE Wholesale Exclusives and available at several dealers.

I spent about 15 minutes shopping for the lowest out the door price and there’s quite a variance. Also, several charge sales tax on top of the prices listed below: Kershaw Bel Air — MSRP: $249.99 — Amazon: $165.44 — Blade HQ: $164.95 — DLT Trading: $159.99 — House of Blades: $159.95 — Knives Ship F...

No denying you did!! Just more of a grrr that my favorite vendor’s price was $299.99! The funny thing is that I actually didn’t buy my CC 087 because I thought it was too expensive (or at least my wife certainly did). Brancron bought it, sent it off to be rock-patterned (plus adding a small lockbar...

I ordered a Kershaw Bel Air with MagnaCut blade, Aluminum scales and DuraLock (a Crossbar lock like the Axis lock) for $142.50 shipped. Curious to compare it to my Benchmade 945 with S30V blade, Aluminum scales and Axis Lock. Best price for a BM 945 is $186.30 shipped. Both about the same size and m...

I purchased my original Slysz Bowie Folder (C186TIP) with CTS-XHP Blade and Titanium Handle in September 2014 for $279.95 from Cutlery Shoppe. So, I paid 44% off MSRP of $499.95. Nice, I purchased mine in 2018 and by then it had gone up to $299.99 The original price at NGK in September 2014 was $29...

This cycle of MAP enforcement started in 2014.

— Benchmade JAN 2014
— Zero Tolerance JAN 2015
— Spyderco JAN 2016

Both Reate and WE make excellent knives out of China but their prices have gone way up the past 3-4 years. That’s why WE have the Civivi and Sencut brands of budget knives.

Benchmade’s MAP pricing is 10% off MSRP now. The MSRP of Benchmade 945 is $230.00 so the MAP is $207.00 and that’s what you see it advertised at. However, in looking further, at least one legitimate dealer does not advertise it at $207.00 and instead once you add it to the shopping cart and proceed ...

We changed MAP because we need dealers and dealers need MAP if they want to bother to carry our products. Spyderco cuts a large swath in the cutlery world, a very well-respected brand, and I'd think dealers would be happy to carry Spyderco given its customer base. Are lots of dealers threatening to...

Hi RamZar, I guess I don't quite understand what it is you are asking us to do? I'm still in the camp that we do not build to a price point. When price is more important than product, there is always something less expensive. If the product can't survive at the price we need to operate, then it goe...