OK, now casting my mind back the FDM (MOAD to some less cultured than I) was not limited to JYDs but to folks who were a member by a certain date. The only advantage to being a JYD was that Dan would add your JYD # for free. Now in most books that JYD # will LOWER the resale value of the knife. Lets not confuse the prospect of an offering to JYDs and the FDM that was to members. And yes there was a fair chunk of the FDM sales that went to new members, but they are still sales for Dan.

I take more value from good sound input being received and worked on than any amount of special offers/extra discounts etc. The best ideas I have heard from this are the Test Team/Council as this can be used to shape future offerings and maybe the idea of holding back JYD# LE/SR blades for a period to allow the appicable JYD to have first refusal if you will - with a time limit of say a couple of weeks from release (that helps to keep folks hanging around the forum here as well).

Maybe some small amout of non-standard colour offerings for JYDs ?? I dunno but maybe it is workable. Patches/coins/stickers are of little interest to me T-shirts I use the hell out of and in fact I spent today in one of the older Yard shirts).

I mostly want Dan to listen to us about design and to keep making great knives with the right price v performance ratio.