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Originally posted by Mr.Winks:
To no one in particular. Get back to me on this when you've;
Owned a business, paid a lease, bought inventory, paid city, county and state taxes, had a payroll, paid employee taxes, paid for health care insurance, paid for advertising, and a few dozen other little expenses.
OR;
your community has to reduce it's police officers, firemen, EMT's and other services because the local tax base has gone away.

Bingo. see, all of YOU guys don't NEED knife stores. you sell YOURSELVES on new stuff.

but the connoisseurs alone aren't gonna keep the entire industry afloat. i'm in a mall. i generate NEW knife business. i EXPAND markets. and the MALL takes a % of my gross. which means anything i sell is AUTOMATICALLY at a discount, as far as my profits are concerned.

as i said, i buy alot of knives from all over. i found knives, got passionate about knives and learned about knives IN knife stores. mostly in one that's closed now.

ya'll might not care about the Mom & Pop brick & mortars. but when they're gone, you can damn sure believe you'll notice. cause the industry wont survive intact.

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Originally posted by DEXIX_five-oh:
ya'll might not care about the Mom & Pop brick & mortars.

I think the point was made, all of the dealers we have been referring to/defending in this post are mom&pop B&M too, they just happen to extend their business on the internet.

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Originally posted by Dr Forthington Pringles:

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Originally posted by MaxStatic:

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Originally posted by Dr Forthington Pringles:
Paying more for a product then market value to keep that seller operational is SOCIALISM.

NAIL ---> HEAD ----> STRUCK FIRMLY

Does anyone remember history anymore? I just can't believe the things people say anymore. Oh and thanks Max.

No, Socialism is about redistribution of wealth. If you have 10 knives you have to give half them up to others that doesn't have one.
Keeping your local economy alive is just self preservation and quality of life. My money will stay in Oregon when I can. I'm not sending it to VA, or CA. I need it in the local economy so it can come back to me