New Knife Dealer.
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:01 pm
Hey can anyone help a new dealer with some good info on who to buy from and what to look for. I am only looking to sell high end knives. No chinese or paki.
If you are interested in factory knives, the Best wholesaler I have delt with is Blue Ridge Knives. They carry a little bit of everything. http://www.blueridgeknives.com others are Jimerson Cutlery, Matthews Cutlery, Matthews has been sold to the Bud-K company and service seem to have fallen off, although thay are still a good group. (Billy Swords has been very helpful to me in the past) Just my opinion.
As far as what to sell that is a common problem for all knife sellers. There are so many cut rate sellers on the internet that it is very difficult to make a very large margin. If you have the means I suppose massive volume is the way to make profit.
It is darn near impossible to make any money on Ebay selling New Retail knives unless you are willing to list huge amounts and make very little or no money on each sale. I may seem sour, but it's really not worth my time and energy to take pictures and write listing for $1. or $2. when Ebay and PayPal make more per sale than I do.
I'm really not usually this grouchy, Sorry if I seem to rain on your parade,
Jeff
