So the bottom line for a bunch of you guys is that it's about $1.50, not that the condition was incorrectly stated, or that the knife was damaged by use, or that the seller was full of crap?
So what dollar amount is acceptable to bitch over? $10? $100? $1000?
I'll be honest, for the buck and a half and an inexpensive factory knife, I personally would not have quibbled much. However, it's not me. It's Robert, his knife and his money, as well as his failed expectations.
It's exmaxima, whose asinine behavior and constant referrals to his Ebay sales, sans any reference to his handle, and his failure to realize this is NOT ebay, it's a different community with a different ethos and a different set of rules. He sold a knife to someone with an incorrectly described condition, and pretty frankly Matthew, you don't NEED to see it -if you claim you know knives, run the bloody edge down your thumbnail and you could not miss feeling them. exmaxima has a whole 14 posts, at least half of them it seems defending his actions here. Stupid, really, when all he needed to do was make the other guy happy. Pretty poor standards for a self-vaunted ebay seller.
Right at the top of these pages are the rules of conduct. Nothing's done til both sides are happy.
A while back when i was a member of a different forum I sold a Busse Basic to a guy who bitched about the condition. I maintained it was in nearly perfect condition and a mod got involved, privately, and I agreed to take the knife back. The bastard had used it for i do not know what, but the black ceramic coating had gouges missing from it. It did not go out that way. I gave it to a friend who loved it.
I was not happy, nor was I guess the other guy - he really believed that crap about a knife being a chisel or a prybar with a convex edge - anyway, the deal got undone and we got over it and did not deal again.
I've done several trades with Sentinel - I'm going to pick on him just cuz I like him and I see his name here - Sentinel and I have shipped thousands of dollars of knives back and forth between us. It was a pain in the ass. About 9 time zones, a World Cup which he was attending and two radically different schedules between us, and we still got it done, and were both happy. I also have NO doubt we were both ready to eat double international shipping if the deal made either side unhappy.
See, that's how this works. I've been buying, selling, trading for years here. Not that this makes me any better than anyone in this thread or at the entirety of BFC, including exmaxima who has acted like a complete ass here in my little world view, but I've got a longer view than lots of folks here. I don't like getting preachy, since it looks retarded over the net, but the hell with it - too many guys with too much time to post and too little time to see the community it seems -
Guys, rulz of the road here - Robert was unhappy and Mr ebay was done with it and moving on. That's not how it works, and it's like a flag-burning court case - I don't have to like it or support it morally - the fact is that with every individual case the same rules apply, big deal or small change. It's the basic rules of ethical and decent business and personal conduct, incoroporated here as simple rules to live by, which allow me to send Sentinel, whom I have never met and quite frankly it's likely I might never, a box with several knives in it in confidence I will get my box and it's not going to be full of scrap metal!
So I hope Robert derives some sort of satisfaction from this whole abortive mess, as he seems like a pretty good guy, but guys, take away the big picture, not the quibble over a buck and a half. If we cannot trust each other on small change, why trust on the big stuff. After all, ethics can be defined as being good when no one is watching, and making sure you hold up your end of the details.
Enough, I've said my piece.
So, he expects maybe it may need a touch of sharpening.I've owned and used many knives over the years,and I can't say I've ever had chips in my blade.I certainly wouldn't expect it from just a few boxes.Either your hitting staples,or that blade has heat treat problems.In anycase it should have been mentioned in the description.
