...I don't think I have ever paid too much for a Randall Knife. A couple of them I just bought a little too early. A year or two after I bought them they were worth what I paid for them. This really all is just a matter of time. If I want to get the best price I order from the catalog and 5 years later wil get the knife for catalog price at the time it was ordered. If I want to spend a little more I can order from a dealer and get it at the catalog price when it is bult a year or two later. If I am in a big hurry I can pay a hundred or two over current catalog and buy from one of my fellow collectors either here or at a show or on Ebay or at someone's website. It all seems pretty simple to me. Time is money. If you can wait you can save some money.
...Paying too much for something is just a simple financial mistake. I can think of dozens of things that many people commonly do that are far more costly to them than paying $100 to $200 over catalog price for a Randall Knife.