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Okay, let's move through this in stages
1. The transaction he is referring to was NOT a bladeforums transaction, and has never been listed on, or mentioned on, bladeforums, and as such, I don't think it has any business in this forum
2. The failure to ship that he is referring to is the RETURN of a DEFECTIVE item that i purchased from him. I purchased a sheath from him, paid within 24 hours, and when I received it, the sheath did not fit properly. I contacted him, and he agreed to ship me a new sheath. AT THE TIME, he didn't mention the return of the defective one, but he contacted me a week later to request that i return it. At that time, I agreed to do so, but informed him that I was packed to move, and would have to find it after I moved. I did not fail to pay for the original item, or ship him any item that he had paid for. This dispute is over the return of a defective item.
3. I screwed up. Everything above aside, I absolutely AM in the wrong here, in that I failed for follow through with shipping the sheath back to him per my word. There's no excuse that really matters, but the sheath is now in an envelope and as soon as I get done posting this message, I'm heading to the post office to mail it.
1. The transaction he is referring to was NOT a bladeforums transaction, and has never been listed on, or mentioned on, bladeforums, and as such, I don't think it has any business in this forum
2. The failure to ship that he is referring to is the RETURN of a DEFECTIVE item that i purchased from him. I purchased a sheath from him, paid within 24 hours, and when I received it, the sheath did not fit properly. I contacted him, and he agreed to ship me a new sheath. AT THE TIME, he didn't mention the return of the defective one, but he contacted me a week later to request that i return it. At that time, I agreed to do so, but informed him that I was packed to move, and would have to find it after I moved. I did not fail to pay for the original item, or ship him any item that he had paid for. This dispute is over the return of a defective item.
3. I screwed up. Everything above aside, I absolutely AM in the wrong here, in that I failed for follow through with shipping the sheath back to him per my word. There's no excuse that really matters, but the sheath is now in an envelope and as soon as I get done posting this message, I'm heading to the post office to mail it.
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it`s been 3 months already....
PS the sheath was not defective...it was a tight fit on a production knife....it happens once in a while to have variations when i checked both the UTs in my possession with calipers i found the difference and I did good by you within 2 days...so trying to say it was defective is bad form in your part.
PS the sheath was not defective...it was a tight fit on a production knife....it happens once in a while to have variations when i checked both the UTs in my possession with calipers i found the difference and I did good by you within 2 days...so trying to say it was defective is bad form in your part.
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i'm not interested in having an argument. I admitted that i made a mistake. Your original sheath didn't fit... defective, "variations", whatever you want to call it, i never complained because i had one that DID fit within a few days. I was mistaken in saying I'll ship it out today as it's sunday. Tomorrow it will go out before 1pm.
The key to making a good thread in this forum is the inclusion of details. You don't need to write a 200 page book, but a few details help. Writing a couple vague phrases out of what is obviously being angry or at least upset does nothing but get things locked.
Did the deal occur here? If not, it should be resolved at it's original place. Just my opinion here in this but, I don't think Bladeforums should become a clearinghouse for conflict resolution for every other forum out there. Sharing information about a al if fine, but ultimately these battles need to be fought and resolved at the place where they were born. I'm not trying to be insensitive to your issue, believe me. I hope you get things squared away.
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One question regarding the transaction not occurring here: From the initial time that you were suppose to return the 1st sheath to sonil, did sonil attempt to contact you at all requesting the return of the sheath, and if so, did you respond?
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Well, I'm going to counter this with my one and only dealing with BePrepared. He was A+ 100% above board. We put together a rather complicated trade deal involving several Autos and a couple Busse Knives. The deal was about $1300 total. We were both totally happy, and the deal went flawless. If he made a mistake, and OWNED it, I don't see where bringing the deal here is going to resolve it. I'm sorry to the OP that things went bad. In my one and only actual Blade Forums deal with BePrepared, he was PERFECT.
no he did not OWNED his mistake he passively/aggressive admitted been wrong, while sifting the blame, that`s BS
a deal is a deal be it $1000 or $20
PS i used a MINT knife out of my collection,effectively devaluating it, to take care of the problem,i could had easily ask him to send his knife to figure out the problem.....
I think it's appropriate to share information here when both parties are active members of this forum, especially if the offending party is very active here. The origin of the sale is ambiguous in this case, and since both parties are members here, it's possible that interactions on BF led to the purchase in some way or another, possibly indirectly. For example, I have saw Aaron Gough's knives enough here that if I will probably buy one when he opens his books back up. I'll probably navigate directly to his website or deal through e-mail. If there is a problem with the deal however (I'm not counting on it, but for argument's sake), I wouldn't consider the BF Feedback forum an inappropriate place to get to the bottom of it after exhausting direct contact. If it's a deal on another forum, that's a little different; but information about a bad deal is much more pertinent to a community where the offending party is active than a place where they've only visited once to place an order.
In this case it looks like BePrepared is owning his mistake, and is working toward making it right. The Feedback forum is working exactly as intended. Since he didn't pull a rip off in the initial deal directly, and he's working to make it right now, I would probably still deal with him. Since the seller was on top of fixing a problem resulting from variations initially, I definitely wouldn't hesitate dealing with him.
In this case it looks like BePrepared is owning his mistake, and is working toward making it right. The Feedback forum is working exactly as intended. Since he didn't pull a rip off in the initial deal directly, and he's working to make it right now, I would probably still deal with him. Since the seller was on top of fixing a problem resulting from variations initially, I definitely wouldn't hesitate dealing with him.
You know, he did answer it in a passive aggressive manner, and it doesn't inspire confidence (people reading this thread get that, you don't have to point it out); but how you're handling it isn't confidence inspiring either, and it's either just as bad or worse.
You were very fair in your initial dealing, be professional now and retain that positive mojo. I would bet that you'll have your sheath back by the end of the week, there's nothing more you can say until Friday (in the small chance that the sheath doesn't get shipped) that will help your case here. When it does show up, come back and call it case closed.
Agree, and VERY well said :thumbup::thumbup:
After 3 months of getting no where he started the thread and it was quickly resolved.
BF is a great place !
I would buy from either of these two with no worries:thumbup:
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