Enigmatic Desires
18-05-2011, 08:41 PM
Recently, I was at park towers in karachi and on the top floor i saw this stall selling switch blades. The items were in a nutshell rubbish! Cheap scratched blades shoddy hilts. But he was charging around Rs.1200 a peice.
I felt curious as regards the real price and went to chaadi lane (Mariott road) and came across some pretty decent jet black switches of a type I have used before and found both tough and sharp. If memory serves me right they are available at a couple of major arms dealers in saddar at around Rs.3500 or so....each... The shop keeper was offloading em at around Rs.42 a dozen!!!
Unfortunately, he refused to sell less then 12 :( I was tempted but my better half would not have taken kindly to showing up with a dozen identical knives under my belt.
If the better quality knives were wholesaling at 42, I imagine the junk available at Park towers was probably worth 15-20 bucks apiece that he was retailing at 1200........
I felt curious as regards the real price and went to chaadi lane (Mariott road) and came across some pretty decent jet black switches of a type I have used before and found both tough and sharp. If memory serves me right they are available at a couple of major arms dealers in saddar at around Rs.3500 or so....each... The shop keeper was offloading em at around Rs.42 a dozen!!!
Unfortunately, he refused to sell less then 12 :( I was tempted but my better half would not have taken kindly to showing up with a dozen identical knives under my belt.
If the better quality knives were wholesaling at 42, I imagine the junk available at Park towers was probably worth 15-20 bucks apiece that he was retailing at 1200........