BAD & UGLY: Britt Gudowski / Black Starr Knives

Tony Fuji said:
I gave him $1550. $650 for FB knife, $150 for sheath, $50 for shipping, $500 for Mission knife, $150 for sheath,
$50 for shipping. No replies to emails since Nov. 02, 2014. He is a liar. one lie after another after another after another. He have told me many times that my knives were completed. but has never shipped them!
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2 YEARS??!! Wow. You're definitely gonna have to pursue him legally to get anything done. Do what myself and others are now doing: contact your local law enforcement agency and tell them you've been scammed out of $1550. They're gonna need to see all the emails between the two of you. They'll know 2 years is friggin ridiculous. They'll help. Contact them. Good luck.

T. Lawson
 
Thank you for your kind advice.
Britt told a lie many times.
I don't understand why he does such a thing to me.
I live in Hong Kong. Outside of the USA. So,I think Hong Kong local police doesn't work.
 
Tony Fuji said:
Thank you for your kind advice.
Britt told a lie many times.
I don't understand why he does such a thing to me.
I live in Hong Kong. Outside of the USA. So,I think Hong Kong local police doesn't work.
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YIKES!! Yeah, not sure what you can do from HK. Truthfully, not a lot would be my guess. And I'll assure you, he LOVES that. I wish you the best of luck but I'm not very optimistic that you'll see anything. Please keep us posted on this thread.

T. Lawson
 
Jan 1st, 2015

I want to let everyone know about my experience with Blackstar Knives and Britt in the hopes that no one else has to go through what I went through.
I ordered a First Blood knife in June of 2012 and was told by Britt Gudowski that I would recieve my knife in 6-8 weeks. So when I did not recieve my knife after nearly 3 months I contacted Britt and was told that there where some delays and I would recieve my knife within 30 days....6 weeks later I still did not have my knife so I text and called britt several times with within the next month without a single reply. I then filed a dispute on paypal in the hopes to at least recover my final deposit of $263.00 Shortly after I filed the dispute Britt responded to the dispute VIA Paypal and I quoate "12/12/2014 12:55 PST - Seller: I was out of the country(my phone doesnt work out of the US) and will be shipping his knife out to him next week.Britt" But I did not get the knife the next week. So I talked to britt on the phone on friday the 19th of December and he told me that he just got back from over seas and he would ship the knife either Sat. Or Mon. and then send me a tracking number and the knife would be on my door step by Wed Dec 24th. I never recieved a tracking number and Britt has once again went silent on me despite the several attempts I have made to get ahold of him. It is now Jan 1st 2015. I have not heard from Britt and I do not have the Knife I have paid in full. I may be able to get the final payment back via Paypal claim, but I will have to go to small claims court to get the first and largest payment back because Paypal only gives a person something like 6 weeks to file a claim and I paid Britt the down payment last June 2014. I would never wish this experience on anyone and honestly I do not know how Britt Gudowski and Blackstar Knives stay in business when they do not deliever the paid for product. If this write up saves anyone from going through what I did I will consider it well worth it.

Thanks, Tracy Yates
 
should never be trusted!!!! (taken from HIS public facebook page)
 

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TDK700 said:
I would like to tack myself onto this thread and on the list of people scammed by Britt Gudowski and Black Starr Knives. I have been in the hole for $615 from Britt since August of 2013. 1 year of excuses and lies for what was suppose to be 4 weeks and my knife would be in my hands. It has been said before many times but I would like to reinforce the well know fact that Britt is a scam artist and you should never send that man anything. I am currently in the process with my local Law Enforcement agency to get my money back or the knife I was promised. If you're in the same situation as many of us listen to Tdawg and put the pressure on.

Britt you know who I am. CPM 154 First Blood, EBay+Paypal. You have been ignoring my emails this far. Not anymore.
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you got your money back or received your knife mate ?
 
Tdawg21 said:
UPDATE:

Hi guys. Been super busy with a couple of projects and just haven't had the free time to give our boy Britt the attention he deserves but I wanted to give you the latest as of today.

It's been over 2 months since I demanded my refund (and over 4 months since my "guaranteed" delivery date for my MCS) and, as you'd expect, I've rec'd nothing from the scammer. I dropped all my info off at the attorney a good while ago but just haven't had a chance to follow up with him until last week (my fault). He spoke with our sheriffs office and had me to get all the emails and paperwork to the LT. that's in charge charge of the investigation division there and I rec'd a call from the LT. earlier this week to go over all the info he'd received. His plan of action is to try to contact Britt and give him a short deadline to return the entire $500 he rec'd from me before the next session of the grand jury convenes here locally and if he hasn't returned the money in full by then, he will be indicted. He told me he tried to call him several times today with no answer. Imagine that!! Doesn't matter though. The LT. left him a v/m explaining that he'll still be indicted whether he calls the LT back or not. I've let the other guys that Britt's ripped off know to approach their local L.E. agencies to get charges against him going too. It's a really simple process that your local L.E. agency should be happy to help you with. I also have a point of contact in the Roseburg PD and they are also aware of our boys illicit activities. If he owes you money, DONT GIVE UP!! That's exactly what he wants you to do. Contact your local L.E. agency and get a case going on this loser. And PM me if you need the contact at Roseburg PD but you need to start locally. Good luck!

T. Lawson
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7 years later , finally ...final verdit is ? did you got your money back ? did you received your MCS ? I heard recently that he still continue his custom knives making activity now 7 years later and buyers are waiting to receive their goods since more than a complete year now. Please tell us what happened with you Tdawg21, its important !
 
His page at iKnife Collector:"

"PROFILE INFORMATION​

ProfileBe the change you want to see....

Our world is the way it is,because WE are the way we are..."

His story of when he - or "we" - started "making" Rambo knives varies by several years in the telling - pre 2009 - 2014.
 
Cognoscenti said:
7 years later , finally ...final verdit is ? did you got your money back ? did you received your MCS ? I heard recently that he still continue his custom knives making activity now 7 years later and buyers are waiting to receive their goods since more than a complete year now. Please tell us what happened with you Tdawg21, its important !
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Cognoscenti,
Sorry for the slow response. I’m not on the boards much these days. Thankfully, Linda Hibben reached out to me about your post on this thread (thanks Linda!). I did actually get my money back from super scammer Britt. On the literal last day he had to do so before charges were going to be filed against him by my local sheriff’s office. I had 10-12 guys contact me about how to handle the legal process to get their money back from him. I can’t say how many actually followed through. My money came back through the PayPal acct of a female I’d never heard of before. I’m sure our boy was scamming her too, just in a slightly different way. Anyone who’d send more than a dollar to this clown after all the info that’s out there on him is seriously out of their mind. Some things never change. He’s one of those things. Trust me.
 
farid. said:
"There are two people we need to avoid in this industry who pretend they are knife makers and they manufacture First Blood tribute knives, one is in the U.S and the other in the UK. These two individuals to the best of my understanding are not makers rather parts assemblers and to the best of my knowledge they have yet to start grinding a single blade or learn to."
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Andy ended up getting hired by Dietmar Pohl to make the custom (handmade) Rambo Last Blood MK-8 and MK-9 series.
https://movieknife.com/en/visit-of-andy-woods-workshop/

he made a lots of money of theses mk-8 / mk-9 without counting all the First Blood he have made and still do
 
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