KnifeDogs.com Forums FAQ

With a 1 year Dealer Membership you receive the following benefits.

• You help support KnifeDogs.com for the good of the community and helping to pay it forward.

• No limit on selling or posting your knives or knife related supplies here.

  • This doesn't mean uncontrolled spamming across the forums please. If you have questions, please ask.

• A safe, professional forum to conduct business in. Family friendly. No drama. No porn.

• A Dealer Membership is just $35/year.

  • Check around. We believe this is the best Dealer forum membership around with credible forum access to 15,000 Knife Makers and an estimated 15,000 more non-registered “visitor” knife makers.

• Title upgrade to Dealer with Increased file and picture limits.

• Use of TAGs on threads

• Enhanced Search function

• 5mb of file space

• 100 PM mailbox

• Can PM to a full mail box

• Can browse the forum in invisible mode

• Larger Profile pic 160x160 x 110k

• Larger Avatar pic 120x120x3k

• Signature image enabled 500x1000px x 10k

• Double signature characters over non-paid members

• Picture size limit increased to 1000x1000px x 160K to really show off those knives

• 100 picture file storage with 6megs picture storage space

Non-paid members are allowed to post a limit of 6 total items for sale or trade per year.

This includes knives and related knife supplies or services.

A Knifemaker or Gold Membership is just $20/year.

A Dealer/Service provider Membership is just $35/year.

A Forum of your own is just $100/year.

We want you to post your items for sale, trade or knife related services on KnifeDogs.com but there are limits to selling as a non-paid member.

Please read the requirements carefully so there are no hard feelings later.

Non-paid members will be allowed to post a forsale, or services offered message for a total of 6 times or less in a year. You can bump your post once.

We also understand a very few will take advantage of anything free so we have to put some specific restrictions in place. If you find the need to post more than 6 times a year, you will need to purchase a membership.

Some examples:

• If you are part time knife maker and complete a knife a month to sell, we encourage you to post it here in the forsale forum.

• If you are a dealer, you can post 6 knives for sale in a year at no cost to you.

• In both cases, these can be all in one post or 6 different posts.

• If you are a supplier of any kind, you also may post up to 6 times a year any knife related items for sale. Due to the nature of items like wood sales, there may be several pieces of wood in one posting and we understand that. In this case we will count posts, not pieces.

• If you provide services to the industry, you are encouraged to post your available services notice in the appropriate forums up to 6 times a year.

• Occasionally a knife maker has some extra material to sell. Good! Post it for sale but please understand this will be part of your 6 limit. It is our desire to have a very open forum for the sale and exchange of knives, supplies and services for all members including he non-paid member.

• We believe these limitations will be a reasonable balance in resources on the system and fair to those that have paid for membership. We may need to adjust this policy as our experience develops.

With a 1 year Forum Ownership Membership you receive the following benefits.

• You help support KnifeDogs.com and the knife community by having a family friendly forum active and healthy.

• You have an instant, internet presence as we are heavily, constantly indexed by all the search engines.

• You have direct access to 15,000 registered knife makers and an estimated 15,000 additional non-registered knife makers.

• You have a safe, professional environment to conduct business in.

• Title of your choice - Default is FORUM OWNER - MOD

• Forum name and description of your choice.

• Increased file and picture limits.

• Use of TAGs on threads Enhanced Search function

• 10mb of file space

• 200 PM mailbox

• Can PM to a full mail box

• Can browse the forum in invisible mode

• Larger Profile pic 160x160 x 110k

• Larger Avatar pic 120x120x3k

• Signature image enabled 500x1000px x 10k

• Double signature characters over non-paid members

• Picture size limit increased to 1000x1000px x 160K to really show off those knives

• 200 picture file storage with 10megs picture storage space

Forum owner membership fees are based on number of employees in your firm. For our purposes here, this includes hobby knife makers and dealers whether you are a business or not.

• Businesses with 1-3 employees are $100 for one year.

• Business with 4- 10 employees are $200 per year.

• Business with +11 employees are $300 per year.

With a 1 year Knife Maker Membership you receive the following benefits.

• You help support KnifeDogs.com for the good of the community and helping to pay it forward.

• A Knife Maker membership is just $20/year. How much has KD helped you advance your skills? 20 bucks worth?

• No limit on selling or posting your knives or knife related supplies here.

  • This doesn't mean uncontrolled spamming across the forums please. If you have questions, please ask.

• Title upgrade to KNIFEMAKER with Increased file and picture limits.

• Use of TAGs on threads

• Enhanced Search function

• 5mb of file space

• 100 PM mailbox

• Can PM to a full mail box

• Can browse the forum in invisible mode

• Larger Profile pic 160x160 x 110k

• Larger Avatar pic 120x120x3k

• Signature image enabled 500x1000px x 10k

• Double signature characters over non-paid members

• Picture size limit increased to 1000x1000px x 160K to really show off those knives

• 100 picture file storage with 6megs picture storage space

With a 1 year GOLD Membership you receive the following benefits.

• You help support KnifeDogs.com and the knife community by having a family friendly forum active and healthy.

• A Gold Membership is just $20/year.

• Title upgrade to GOLD MEMBERSHIP

• Increased file and picture limits.

• Use of TAGs on threads

• Enhanced Search function

• 5mb of file space 100 PM mailbox

• Can PM to a full mail box

• Can browse the forum in invisible mode

• Larger Profile pic 160x160 x 110k

• Larger Avatar pic 120x120x3k

• Signature image enabled 500x1000px x 10k

• Double signature characters over non-paid members

• Picture size limit increased to 1000x1000px x 160K to really show off those knives

• 100 picture file storage with 6megs picture storage space

Every one is not expected or required to have a paid membership to KnifeDogs.com You are very welcome to browse the forums, exchange messages and join in the fun. With that is should be understood that non-paid members will have reduced access and use to some of the forum functions (such as search, signature images, PM) and lower file space, picture limits, avatar, profile and other functions than paid membership. This is of course, all designed to encourage to buy a paid membership. This is a business driven forum and paid membership is part of the design. The thought process here is simple, if memberships are largely paid, more respect is given to the forum and it's members than would be given with a wide open, no charge forum.