If I may still add to the conversation, one of my points sort of was the sales method and the second hand prices that may fit fine (perfectly?) for collectors adding the excitement of purchasing a new cool hard duty blade from a small volume manufacturer. Those with steady life and work can surely easily deal with timing critical sales by batches but to those of us that live more fastpaced life with many unknown factors thrown in acquiring a Scrapyard may be somewhat tricky. It has certainly proven difficult for me.