Bad experiences with BladeGoblin

SIRGALANT said:
good on you mate :thumbup: i always pay my full amount of shipping , and i converse with the seller until the full terms of the deal are set . i thanks all the poeple who have dealt with me internationally.
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I hear ya mate and agree with you also!
 
I have received numerous orders from the US including big swords, never a problem. From Europe it seems to take twice as long but never lost anything from there either. Just sent a knife to the US via airmail and it wasn't too pricy either. Sending to New Zealand from South Africa took only 10 days the last time I sent something there, which is better than neighbouring countries in Africa (the last package I sent to Namibia took a month and a half). So I've sent stuff all over the world, and ordered from just about everywhere. The only thing ever to get lost in the post was armour from China.
In my experience, if you register and insure the package, and have a tracking number, you'll come out all right.:)
 
Thank you all for your opinions.
If I am not mistaken, there are two main statements in your posts:
1."The seller should warn the buyer BEFORE the deal that he does not take the responsibility for all shipping risks"
Mr. BladeGoblin didn`t do it.
2. "The buyer should tell to the seller about a reliable method of delivery"
Sorry, but if you live in US it`s very easy to you to spend a few minutes in USPS office and ask the clerk about reliable insured method with tracking. I know it because some US sellers did it, they send me insured packages with tracking numbers (CPxxxxxxxxxUS) which arrived in safely.
Did I miss something?
Thanks to all.
 
kristopher_robin said:
2. "The buyer should tell to the seller about a reliable method of delivery"
Sorry, but if you live in US it`s very easy to you to spend a few minutes in USPS office and ask the clerk about reliable insured method with tracking. I know it because some US sellers did it, they send me insured packages with tracking numbers (CPxxxxxxxxxUS) which arrived in safely.
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It looks to me like he did ask the clerk and got bad information. If you know of a reliable delivery service to Russia, you should mention it to anyone shipping to you. That makes it easier for the shipper. It is not just his responsibility to make sure everything goes smoothly. You should provide whatever assistance you can. Whenever I have shippments being sent from the US I tell the other person which method of shipping I want used.

Something that I have discovered over the years is that insurance can be a bad thing. If you ship something with a large value for insurance that lets everyone that handles the package know that it is valuable. Also, for those that ask to have something shipped with a lower declared value for Customs, the insured value can not exceed the declared value that is given. Many countries have large import duties/taxes, and buyers will ask to have a low declared value provided for Customs. If the buyer wants to have that done, he/she has to accept that if the package is stolen or lost that the seller can not be responsible for a refund of any more than what the buyer requested be used as a declared value. If it is a thousand dollar knife, but the buyer requested that it be valued at one hundred dollars, the refund will no more than one hundred dollars. That is the most that the seller can back from the shipper, and that is the most that the seller can provide as a refund to the buyer.
 
Sorry, I have not much experience in international shipping. All my sellers choose the insured tracking shipping without asking me.
"If the buyer wants to have that done, he/she has to accept that if the package is stolen or lost that the seller can not be responsible for a refund of any more than what the buyer requested be used as a declared value"
It`s absolutely right! But we don`t talking about low declared value.
 
kristopher_robin said:
Sorry, I have not much experience in international shipping. All my sellers choose the insured tracking shipping without asking me.
"If the buyer wants to have that done, he/she has to accept that if the package is stolen or lost that the seller can not be responsible for a refund of any more than what the buyer requested be used as a declared value"
It`s absolutely right! But we don`t talking about low declared value.
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I think you also have to accept some responsibility for what transpired I mean who else knows your own postal system and how it works better than yourself. This is why I insist that the transaction is on the buyer and not me when dealing anywhere but the USA. I've had a few international buyers get upset that I won't sell to them because of it but too bad and in all honesty it's more of a hassle with all the extra forms and worrying if it's going to get there and all that so all of the Non USA bretheren please consider yourselves lucky if we Yanks choose to ship to you.
 
Bravado said:
I think you also have to accept some responsibility for what transpired I mean who else knows your own postal system and how it works better than yourself. This is why I insist that the transaction is on the buyer and not me when dealing anywhere but the USA. I've had a few international buyers get upset that I won't sell to them because of it but too bad and in all honesty it's more of a hassle with all the extra forms and worrying if it's going to get there and all that so all of the Non USA bretheren please consider yourselves lucky if we Yanks choose to ship to you.
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Lucky? Well with your weak dollar you should be getting hundreds of bargain hunters from Euroland:D

But seriously, I have been very lucky with my purchases from the US and elsewhere, TOUCH WOOD. The Japanese Post is fantastic, four days from Seki to Finland! Royal Mail UK is good too, so is USPS. Deutsche Post tends to be very slow though. What's important is agreed methods beforehand between client and vendor and CLEAR typed labels, not some illiterate hand-job...scrawl. The customs can be a major hold-up though, but look if you write gift and tools or knife on the pack that usually keeps the pirates off;)
 
willgoy said:
Lucky? Well with your weak dollar you should be getting hundreds of bargain hunters from Euroland:D

But seriously, I have been very lucky with my purchases from the US and elsewhere, TOUCH WOOD. The Japanese Post is fantastic, four days from Seki to Finland! Royal Mail UK is good too, so is USPS. Deutsche Post tends to be very slow though. What's important is agreed methods beforehand between client and vendor and CLEAR typed labels, not some illiterate hand-job...scrawl. The customs can be a major hold-up though, but look if you write gift and tools or knife on the pack that usually keeps the pirates off;)
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True that! I've shipped many places myself without a problem and will do it again but like you say terms beforehand always.:)
 
We too also use USPS-Global Express for anything going outside the US. UPS charges too many fees overtop of the shipping & receiver fees.
 
i just wanted to add that i have just received a knife from Ironballs, and have done several deals here.. the knives have been shipped by global priority or EMS .. all have got here fine

..there is a tracking option.. even if it doesn't work 100% it stil scares the local postmen enough that they don't steal your packages...


i hope both parties can sort this out
 
I think I speak for most Knife nuts this side of the pond, for a US to UK shipment USPS global priority is the preferred method.

I hope this thread will not put more of you good folks off shipping outside the US. Personally I have never had a USPS GP package go missing although some of them have taken a while. Shipping times have varied between 5 days and 3 weeks.

As has been said by others in this thread I think good communication between the two parties is the most important part of any deal.

Just my 2cents
 
US -> Norway : ~ one week
USPS tracking # follows the package all the way to my doorstep.
Even the cheapest tracking does that.
Same with UPS, FedEx, DHL and all the rest.

Some try to save on shipping, but what is $10 when you just bought a $100-150-200-500(??) knife?
Can't remember what I paid for shipping last time, but it was like $60 or something (maybe it was $100?).
 
"No any messages" means "no ANY messages" :)
No, sir, I haven`t receive any news from this topic start.
We name it here in Russia "dohloe delo" - dead deal :).
 
Bladegoblin is on this forum pretty well every day. I can't understand why he hasn't made any effort to get this situation resolved.
 
Bladegoblin's total lack of communication has left me with the feeling that he has washed his hands of this whole deal. He is on Bladeforums every day and could certainly have come here and explained why it is that he is handling this matter in the way he is. Pretty sad as far as I am concerned.
 
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