Alox huh? Right into the deep end for you.
Alox huh? Right into the deep end for you.
Yeah that's what I thought too! Straight onto the hard stuff! :tu:
now for a few questions :-\
Are the Vintage or Discontinued 93mm the most highly collected pieces? I am still confused as to the best way to identify the discontinued rarer types. I am assuming the white cross models are the older models, I plan on collecting what I like ofcourse but would like to buy a few hard to come by models, Ebay has been tough beause alot of auctions say "Rare" when Im not sure how "Rare" they are and dont want to overpay too much :drool:
Alox huh? Right into the deep end for you.
Yeah that's what I thought too! Straight onto the hard stuff! :tu:
now for a few questions :-\
Are the Vintage or Discontinued 93mm the most highly collected pieces? I am still confused as to the best way to identify the discontinued rarer types. I am assuming the white cross models are the older models, I plan on collecting what I like ofcourse but would like to buy a few hard to come by models, Ebay has been tough beause alot of auctions say "Rare" when Im not sure how "Rare" they are and dont want to overpay too much :drool:
Welcome. First rule of SAK collecting is that very few people really know what is "rare" as what isn't. eBay sellers especially have no idea. They add words to auction titles to get search hits. I've seen 2008 M61 Soldiers listed as rare (they're the most common year by a factor of 4). I see knives from the 1980s labeled as "Victoria", even though they aren't stamped "Victoria". No, there are probably only 20 or so people in the world that really know what is actually rare, and many of them are on this forum so don't be afraid to ask.
If you don't want to pay too much, then you might want to rethink alox collecting :D. If you really want to get into this, then watch eBay for a while and get a sense of how much things sell for and how often they appear. You are trying to buy knives that are in limited supply and not in production., As such, they are available in a very serial fashion. Other than red alox Pioneers which are pretty common, other old alox model may only be available once a month or so. Usually prices will go insane on these when 2 or more noobs start collecting and start bidding wars over the slow stream of different models. When this happens and the noobs have money, prices go insane for a while until they collect all they want, lose interest, run out of money, or some combination of all three.
My advice would be to research selling prices in the for sale forums here. These tend to be less affected by the bidding war stuff that happens on eBay. Don't go too far back, though. You'll just depress yourself if you see prices from 5 years ago.