Is this something new? I haven't seen it before.

[mav]

As some of you know, I really like the Chris Reeve, and have several, one-piece designed knives. As I was looking around ebay this evening I noticed something I had never seen before. I saw some black CR one-piece knives at ridiculously low prices. They were shipping out of China, and the appearance were dead giveaways that they were fake. Copying a design is one thing, but using the CR logo and stamping "made-in-usa" on the copy is something else. I have seen copies of knives before, but not where they are also copying the manufacturer's name on it. Is this something new?

[willis68]

Mav,

If you never see another or can re visit the link that you are referring to, please send it to Chris there may be a way that through Ebay they can stop it before it gets widespread, I know they would appreciate it

[mav]

Mav,

If you never see another or can re visit the link that you are referring to, please send it to Chris there may be a way that through Ebay they can stop it before it gets widespread, I know they would appreciate it

Okay. I emailed him the links.

I will give the person a little bit of credit for being honest by not trying to pass them off as genuine. They stated the knives were replicas.

[mav]

I guess somebody else saw it too. The listings have been altered by removing the CR logo on the blades.

[Oh Shoot]

Mav,

If you never see another or can re visit the link that you are referring to, please send it to Chris there may be a way that through Ebay they can stop it before it gets widespread, I know they would appreciate it

Reeve is one of the publicly listed VeRO members on eBay.

Matter of fact, he's the only knife company that chooses to show membership, for whatever reason.

Only VeRO members can get bogus listings removed; it doesn't help for the rank and file to report auctions as far as counterfeit and the like.

- OS

[Moped]

Aren't some of the Schrade fixed blades, knock off of Chris Reeves knives? Seems like pretty much their whole series of Extreme Survival series is.

[mav]

Aren't some of the Schrade fixed blades, knock off of Chris Reeves knives? Seems like pretty much their whole series of Extreme Survival series is.

Yes, but the issue was not with copying the design. There have been a lot of manufacturers copy CR's one-piece design. I don't really have a problem with that. The problem I had, and it appears others did too, was the knives being sold had the CR logo stamped on the blades. While this seller was at least honest stating his knives were replicas, not all sellers would do that. I wouldn't want to see someone get ripped off thinking they are buying something they are not. The knives that were being sold were a lot cheaper than the CR knives ($120 - 220 vs. $300 - 500 and up), but they were a lot more expensive than the Schrade Extreme Survival Series (around $50).