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Esav Benyamin said:We've seen frauds come here and deliberately scam people. They set out to steal. That's not what Art did.
He's been around a long time, and a lot of guys were happy to buy his knives. He tuned them up and sold them at very fair prices.
It was even a joke, when he'd come on line praising a new purchase, people would call dibs on the knife for when he'd be ready to sell it off in a week.
Then he got in over his head, and took a long time satisfying obligations. That went away for a while, but it was a sign something was wrong. Now we hear he got into extremely negative personal behavior. That's his problem, and it's not right that his friends got stuck for the money that he owed them.
But I seriously doubt he planned to steal the money. I doubt he planned anything; he just let himself drift into irresponsible behavior. No one will excuse him for that. He has to pay all the money he owes.
You may not want to show him any respect as a human being. How about showing some to yourselves?
Esav - you are very entitled to your opinion and to support your friend in this matter. I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on some of the issues in this one.