Retailers are buying cheap knives and doubling their profit in UK knife buyback

[JGalt]

This is hilarious. The UK has a knife buyback program where they give you a minimum of £10 per knife.

But some enterprising individuals are buying crates of cheap knives for $5.58 apiece and are making a good profit by turning them in.

Zombie knife surrender policy had 'huge flaws'​

The Home Office underestimated how many zombie knives and machetes would be surrendered ahead of a recent ban, documents show.

Research by the BBC also suggests some owners may have been offered more in compensation than their knives cost.
An MP said there were "huge flaws" in the government's original impact assessment for the scheme, while another queried why compensation was not capped.

The Home Office said the scheme had taken dangerous weapons "off our streets" and that compensation claims had "undergone stringent review".

The ban was introduced by the previous Conservative government to cut serious violence and crime.
It widened the definition of zombie knives, which were already banned, to include knives that were 8in (20cm) long, if they had other specific features.

The Home Office opened a month-long surrender and compensation scheme before it became law on 24 September.
It offered to pay a minimum of £10 per knife to retailers and individuals handing in three or more.

But BBC research suggests knives of the type banned could be bought far more cheaply than this.

It comes after an investigation found illegal blades were still available to buy online, a month after they were outlawed.
An impact assessment shows the Home Office thought owners would hand in 472 blades, resulting in compensation of about £14,000.

Officials would not reveal the actual total but said the results of the scheme would be published "shortly".

However, partial data from several police forces in England and Wales shows at least 39,000 knives were surrendered.
One retailer in the West Midlands handed in more than 100 blades.

Nottinghamshire Police said it saw 455 knives surrendered, while Avon and Somerset had more than 1,000.
On 9 September, Luton-based Sporting Wholesale delivered 35,871 blades to Bedfordshire Police and made a claim for compensation.

There is no suggestion the firm did anything illegal or intended to profit from the scheme.
Among the knives it surrendered were hundreds of a blade known as k-mach-165..."

Zombie knife surrender policy had 'huge flaws'

 

[shockedcanadian]

This is hilarious. The UK has a knife buyback program where they give you a minimum of £10 per knife.

But some enterprising individuals are buying crates of cheap knives for $5.58 apiece and are making a good profit by turning them in.

Zombie knife surrender policy had 'huge flaws'​

The Home Office underestimated how many zombie knives and machetes would be surrendered ahead of a recent ban, documents show.

Research by the BBC also suggests some owners may have been offered more in compensation than their knives cost.
An MP said there were "huge flaws" in the government's original impact assessment for the scheme, while another queried why compensation was not capped.

The Home Office said the scheme had taken dangerous weapons "off our streets" and that compensation claims had "undergone stringent review".

The ban was introduced by the previous Conservative government to cut serious violence and crime.
It widened the definition of zombie knives, which were already banned, to include knives that were 8in (20cm) long, if they had other specific features.

The Home Office opened a month-long surrender and compensation scheme before it became law on 24 September.
It offered to pay a minimum of £10 per knife to retailers and individuals handing in three or more.

But BBC research suggests knives of the type banned could be bought far more cheaply than this.

It comes after an investigation found illegal blades were still available to buy online, a month after they were outlawed.
An impact assessment shows the Home Office thought owners would hand in 472 blades, resulting in compensation of about £14,000.

Officials would not reveal the actual total but said the results of the scheme would be published "shortly".

However, partial data from several police forces in England and Wales shows at least 39,000 knives were surrendered.
One retailer in the West Midlands handed in more than 100 blades.

Nottinghamshire Police said it saw 455 knives surrendered, while Avon and Somerset had more than 1,000.
On 9 September, Luton-based Sporting Wholesale delivered 35,871 blades to Bedfordshire Police and made a claim for compensation.

There is no suggestion the firm did anything illegal or intended to profit from the scheme.
Among the knives it surrendered were hundreds of a blade known as k-mach-165..."

Zombie knife surrender policy had 'huge flaws'

Errr,.are they buying kitchen knives too? If a madman is going to go on a rampage, they are going to find a weapon rrgardless. A turkey carving knife, a steak knife, a pocket knife, whatever.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Errr,.are they buying kitchen knives too? If a madman is going to go on a rampage, they are going to find a weapon regardless. A turkey carving knife, a steak knife, a pocket knife, whatever.

Well, the kitchen knives I have go up to an 8" blade. You have to be over 18 to buy a blade/knife in the UK. I sent my 14 yr son at the time into Asda to buy a pack of those cheap plastic picnic cutlery sets because we forgot. He came back to the car saying he was too young to buy them, Asda refused!!

A cycle computer contains cable ties and a tiny blade to cut them, and I mean tiny. You have to be over 18 to buy it!!

As kids, we had knives galore, even a throwing knife. So why is there knife crime these days? Too soft on kids, spare the rod spoil the child.