KMD Custom Knife Consignment
Thank you for your interest in our custom knife consignment services. At knifemakersdatabase.com, we employ a highly specialized team that will meet all of your needs by coordinating and promoting the sale of your knife / knives in a quick and professional manner. The purpose of our operation is to lift the burden of the entire business aspect of knifemaking from the knife maker, allowing him to use the hours upon hours that would have been spent trying to sell their knives day after day doing what they would rather be doing: Making more knives!At knifemakersdatabase.com, our team will take care of all your business needs. You are the knifemaker. We are your agents.The first concern you probably have since you've reached this page is how all of this is actually handled. There are actually two ways that the consignment procedure can be performed.I) We do all the Work
Step 1 - After contacting us and deciding which knives you would like to sell, the selected knives are shipped to us via UPS / Fed-ex. We recommend that you track and insure your knives for their sale value. KMD will not be held liable for knives that are damaged or lost in the mailing process.Step 2 - Upon receipt of your knives, our incoming shipments department will open your package and inspect your goods. Your knives will literally be handled with white gloves. As a knife collector myself, my number one peeves are dust and fingerprints! After clearing the inspection process, our professional digital photographer takes about 20 - 30 ultra-high resolution pictures of your knives and chooses the best of the best. After the photos are taken, your knives are repackaged, given a unique ID # which is entered into our database and locked securely in a heavy-safe in a humidity free, temperature controlled environment.Step 3 - The selected photos taken in step 2 are uploaded to our sales department administrator along with your knives unique ID #. Your knife is then set up on our website with the photos, a description and the knifes stats. (We will develop a fitting description and take all measurements if you do not provide us with one. Your knife will be up online and ready for sale within 24 hours max from the time of arrival.Step 4 - After your knife sells, we calculate shipping costs, charge the customer and wait for payment. Some payments are instant as we accept credit cards and paypal. Some payments take longer to go through as we accept money orders and personal checks as well. If a money order is used, the knife ships the day the money order arrives. If a check is used, the check must clear before the knife is shipped to the customer.Step 5 - Upon completion of a successful transaction, your earnings are sent to you immediately via paypal. If you do not have paypal, we will mail you a money order or a personal check, which ever you prefer. Paypal is our preferred money transfer agent and it is suggested that you set up a simple sellers account with them. This is not necessary, but the process takes a matter of minutes and provides instant, secure transactions between you and our company. Paypal does not charge anything to set up an account.This five step process is quick, simple, secure and is a sure way to sell your knife and promote yourself further on the Internet. Once we receive your knife, we will host it at no charge for as long as it takes to sell, guaranteed. Unlike auction sites, we do not charge to host your knife for small allotted time periods. In the event that your knife does not sell and you want it shipped back to you, you will have to cover a small fee which includes packing, insuring and shipping. When pricing your knives, we suggest you take the cost of shipping to us into concern.The second method is almost the same as the one described previously, differing in two aspects. 1) If you have a digital camera and can take good photos of your own knives, you can upload the photos to our photo department and we will host them for you. This allows you to hold on to your knife while we sell it for you. This is a plus in the case that you receive a willing buyer other than one from our site. Simply tell us that the knife has been sold and we will remove the item from our sales area.2) The second difference, of course, is that since you have the knife, you will have to ship it to the buying customer once it sells. We will provide you with the customers shipping address along with your payment as soon as the transaction is complete.As our business is just now opening, we are having a limited promotional offer which includes lower commission rates a 1 year free advertisement in regards to your knives or site if you have one. This offer will expire in a short time. Clients who begin doing business with us now will keep the rates offered during this promotional period for as long as they do business with us.Again, we would like to thank you for your interest in our custom knife consignment services. For more information regarding our commission rates or other questions about KMD's knife consignment operation, please email us at:
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