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barsija
70
Jan 17, 2019
Hopefully the group continues to grow, to the point where its buying power is enough to reduce the turnaround time on some of these offerings. I understand that the collabs and exclusives take time to manufacture, but it shouldn't take a month or so to get a batch of CRKTs or some such out to people. PS. In my experience, MD's collabs are pretty much in line, timewise, with others I've gotten in on. The APurvis Blades Progeny I'm waiting on will end up taking a little over 3 months to deliver. It looks like most of the collabs I've gotten from MD took about 5 months, give or take, from order to door. There is room for improvement, but it's not outlandish.
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Bknguyen
693
Jan 17, 2019
barsijaFrom what I understand, when a drop ends, the order has to be placed with the vendor. So there's some time for them to put the (potentially large) order together and either ship it out to customers themselves or ship to Massdrop, who will then have to ship it out. That's a lot of steps Massdrop has to go through, so I don't think it's gonna get much better. For a typical retail experience, they just have to put your individual order together and ship out so it's a lot faster. I agree though, wish Massdrop could speed it up.
Davidsh331
284
Jan 29, 2019
BknguyenIt's also a balancing act... Volume Increase + Speed to Market + Quality Control... For example, more volume of faster production could mean less quality control, if not properly managed by MD. So wishing for more or faster could impact quality, if not careful.
Bknguyen
693
Jan 29, 2019
Davidsh331Very true. Not to mention the whole debacles of the final product being different than what was promised.
Omniseed
1972
Feb 25, 2019
Davidsh331Higher prices are more likely, given the quality baseline of the manufacturers they have been willing to work with so far. Add $20-25 to the sticker price just to get the first run a few months earlier? No thanks, I'll wait and savor the anticipation.
reswright
3850
Jun 18, 2019
OmniseedThere's a lifecycle to the knife consumer's activity. We see the knife, we want the knife, we decide whether or not to get the knife, we get the knife, we have that period where the knife is still in Schrodinger's sheath, it could be awesome, it could be crap, you might learn something new just by handling it, that thing you learn might be 'I overpaid for this knife' but you don't know until the package arrives. You know the initial rush has worn off when you start setting the packages aside to open later in the day instead of beginning the process of opening the package as soon as it reaches your hands. You open the package, you look at the knife. Sometimes you gotta wipe off the grease right away because there's an astonishing amount of it, sometimes it's shipped dry and clean. You register your first impression which usually turns into the backbone of your long term idea of what the knife is. Sometimes your first impressions are right on, but a lot of the time values of the knife only become apparent with carry and use and your willingness to be a student of what you carry. If we buy too damn many knives we don't always give each knife that sort of true test of usage, but hey, at least there's more where that one came from right? Anyway then unless you really found one of your lifetime knives, it turns into something you own and pick back up every once in a while, or see in your big collection and smile that contented, dragon-with-a-hoard smile we get. I can see it now, the future archaeologists digging through our ashes, deciding that some of the remains that some of us left behind are evidence of an early 21st century cult of knife worship.
reswright
3850
Jun 19, 2019
BknguyenThe thing is, if you have to take that cumbersome step, then go ahead and take the time to do a little better review of what they’re passing on. I mean, why not? a time delay is already unavoidable, so take steps you ordinarily wouldn’t because it’d cost time. Make the most of it, if you know it’s gotta happen. What’s better for the customer, getting the knife in X weeks with an unquantified level of risk that things will be arseketeered and subsequently requiring an even longer wait, or getting the knife in X+1 or 2 weeks with much better assurance that the end product will be good? And which goes better, finding out that they’re getting a refund or credit in the store or whatever, or getting their knife and noticing the problem? Neither goes well but I know which one I dislike more as a consumer. It all depends on their supply chain- it has to go to them first, out of the shipping choice you posed. but that to me seems like the sort of brand building they wanna do. They’re assuming real risks no matter what they do, and to be fair we have to recognize that. But all of this is my way of saying, if we have to wait, let us wait in anticipation rather than angst. That is a real and true value that they can provide, and a little Tier 1 QA isn’t really all that hard. And it solves the issue of Drop not knowing about an issue until someone decides to tell them. For all I know it is completely and hopelessly impractical because of the secret sauce they use to juice their pitching in the game of inside baseball, but brand loyalty has to start somewhere. Why not here?
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