I imagine their hope is you buy a new one and give the old one to someone else, somewhere I was reading about Leatherman and it seems to me they suffered from the HP problem. People outside the computer industry probably don't know what I'm talking about but basically HP's old 3 and 4 series laser printers were built so well that it cose them sales as no one wanted to replace a working printer with a new one. Hp had to get creative and add new features and justify by the reduced cost of new toner (If you use 1 toner cart per month for two years the cost difference in toner from the old to new model would pay for the printer by then). I see Leatherman having the same problem, the old Leatherman were soo good that no one ever needed to replace them or buy new ones and their sales started dropping. So you design new models with new features in hopes that people will want the new features enough to give away their old model. Myself I actually would have bought a new wave or charge as soonm as they were released and given away one of my old waves if they hadn't messed up the screwdrivers. I may still buy one, either for me or as a gift though. This year I started giving preparedness a little bit, gave 4 squirts as presents to my wife and the guys in the immediate family. Wife gave her micra to he mother who said she wanted one after that so there are 4 new Leatherman sales, although small ones. I'm going to ask the guys near this Christmas if they use them, the ones that do I thought about buying them a wave.