Anybody else get this Chinese email?

Kevin Cross

Kevin Cross

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I opened my email this morning and had one from a Mr. Shengwen Chen. He is representing "The Outstanding Blade" magazing which he claims is on only knife magazine in China. He is asking for emails/photos, dimensions and details of some of my knives; same type of info we would provide to BLADE of KNIVES ILLUSTRATED.

My reaction is that I am flattered that someone in China likes my knives enough to want to rip them off, but maybe it's legit..............

I'm not gonna find out.

Just giving everyone a heads up, I'm sure I am not the only one that will receive one of these.

Kevin
 
Oh, yes! I will be featured in a future article :) ..........If I ever send them any info.

Actually, I have had a few back and forth emails with him. He evidently produces an e-mag. I asked for copies and he sent me many back issues in e-format. The red flags are there is no submission form ,no magazine web site, and no physical magazine.

I have been tempted to send a bio and shop photos and see what happens. Maybe I will be the next big rage in Chinese knife enthusiasts and collectors.....or the next big sale item in Walmart's sporting goods department.

I have meant to email hammerfall and ask about this guy.
 
i have been in china for almost 5 years. there are very few blade magazing here. and i have not heard of this one. i will ask more people about it in the morning. if they can give you the chinese name of their magazing, i will be able to do a more accurate search.
 
Hammerfall, Here is a lot of info and links as well as the magazines:





------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------
&#21457;&#20214;&#20154;: "sapelt"<sapelt@cox.net>;
&#21457;&#36865;&#26102;&#38388;: 2012&#24180;7&#26376;11&#26085;(&#26143;&#26399;&#19977;) &#26202;&#19978;7:58
&#25910;&#20214;&#20154;: "loveknives"<loveknives@foxmail.com>;
&#20027;&#39064;: Re: I love your knives!!


Shengwen,
&#20320;&#22909;
I have several special projects I am working on now. I'll get some photos together when I can. I'll send a biography and photos of me,too.
Can you send me a link to your magazine's website?
Would it be possible for you to send me a copy of your magazine?
Can you forward the submission forms for photos and articles?

&#35613;&#35613; - Stacy


----- Original Message -----
From: loveknives
To: sapelt
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:20 AM
Subject: I love your knives!!


Dear Sir,

I am the editor of a Chinese paper magazine which is relevant to knives, Shengwen CHEN.
The name of our magazine is <The Outstanding Blades> (Chinese name is&#12298;&#21517;&#20992;&#12299;).There's only one magazine about knives in China.Here you are some pics of our magazine.
My colleagues and I are very appreciate your works, but they are not widespreaded for most of the others, so we sincerely hope that you could give us an opportunity to cooperate with you, and then share them with all of the chinese readers and knives enthusiasts.

Details:
We hope that you can email us one of your works per month, include the photos (size:>1MB,the more, the better) and introductions,
and we&#8217;ll displayed all the informations about your name, works, website, and contact way on our magazine.

If you are interest in our invitation, please contact me.

Looking forward to your reply. Thank you.



Sincerely
------------------
Best Wishes
YourFriend:Shengwen CHEN
Shengwen CHEN

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And the rest of the links:


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To play devil's advocate for a minute, why would they need you to send them info about your knives to copy them? There are plenty of pictures on them on your website and the gallery here. If they merely wanted to copy, they would simply look at it and copy it. They wouldn't need info from you about it. I doubt they asked Apple for details when they copied the iPad, they just bought one and copied it.
 
I have received this email several times.... from different "Chen's, Wangs and Hung's(litterally, not mocking). I don't see a direct scam but it doesn't seem right to me.
 
i just checked it. there is this &#21517;&#20992; magazin here. its acctrully one of the few major knife magazine in china. though, i do not know if these Mr Chen, Wang, Hung really works for the magazine. my suggestion is sending some of the photos of your work. avoid sending them the key design if you worry about the manufacturer going to copy it. and they mostly likely cannot copy it without having the acctrue knife. i do not see otherwise how will this hurt you guys. most of your guys do not own any market in china. there are many knife/sword collectors willing to spend money buying a good work. however very few of them heard of you guys. so maybe send this guy some pretty photos, let the future potential customers know about you. its not unusual for chinese market turning a small dying foreign company into a world wide cropration. i am not sure how will that work for a custom knifemaker, but take this chance and try it for free does not hurt at least.
 
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