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50%: Spyderco Native 5 with black FRN Handle + S35VN blade ($144.95 retail value) 15%: Spyderco Native 5 with black G-10 Handle + S35VN blade ($224.95 retail value)
Spyderco charges $100 more for the same knife, and steel, but G10 instead of FRN??!!?? That's insane.
It's exactly that overpriced msrp and map nonsense that is the reason I don't keep up on spyderco products.....it's getting real hard to find the value in a lot of them, even if they are of decent quality
But I was in a hurry so and they had other customers, so I told them to order it and have it sent to the store for pick-up, use the credit card on my account, etc. I left before they processed the transaction, and to make a long story short, when I looked at the charges the next day they were around $75 more than I thought they should have been ($75 vs $100 = the difference between the listed MSRP and what everyone actually charges). The trouble, of course was that they had ordered me the G10 version instead of the FRN.
I couldnt believe it, but it does prove one thing: those of us who think FRN is a fancy name for cheap plastic are right.
(i know, I know, China vs US, blah blah.... But the point still stands from a consumers standpoint, and the G10 in some of my bestechs are nicer by far then the g10 in my spyderco)