I took a spin through the spyderco website and there are very expensive knives, but several are under $100. I didn't see a single benchmade under $100 and most over $200+ which is why I think they are overpriced.
A little bit of plastic or g10 handles is trivial and powder metal parts are cheap which is what most benchmade knives have.
If you compared the cost of a small transmission or gear case with higher grade steels, milling, hobbing, broaching, grinding, and heat treating and then look at a bench made pocket knife.... You would understand the cost comparisons.
The analogy of Buck is its a USA company in the neighboring state as Benchmade. I'm sure the labor standards are similar in the region. Maybe Buck is union, but I doubt if benchmade is because they let cops in to cut guns.
But wrapping back to the original post...
People can be pissed at Benchmade for cutting up guns and may stop buying products for a while and hurt their profits for one or two quarters, but people will forget.
A similar situation.... I'm sure Nike shoes has rebounded quite well.
And they are selling overpriced $3 Chinese made shoes.
