Beware of ScoMa

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I do agree with the buyer that full disclosure is important, even on as recieved items, and could have avoided this problem. Though I don't know how visable this was to the naked eye.nor do I know if the problem is so common as to be concidered normal for the maker and not an issue.
I also agree that when something is listed as new LNIB( whatever) it will stifel questions about condition.
So this problem could have been avoided in the 1st place, but once it happened the buyer has handled it very poorly IMO. Problems happen and it ishow the seller handles them, that to me, determines the type of seller they are. This seller was not given the chance to resolve this and refered to as a liar and thief. I don't concider that to be fair.
Hopefully the op will inform us what the shop has to say on the condition no matter if it helps or hurts his case. These threads are not for vengence, but to help others avoid simular probkems.
 
To me the seller’s pictures show a spotty finish… but it’s a Busse 🙂 Are they known for perfect finishes?

DanR217 got what he paid for, but has buyer’s remorse, probably because it’s not really worth 900 even if it was perfect.
 
I can see not being happy with the blems, but I think the feedback post might be jumping the gun. It sounds like there was still ample opportunity to work this out in private. Normally when these posts pop up they start with a month long string of DMs that break into a verbal melee, or just go completely unanswered.
 
I like the feedback forum because it gives me a pretty good idea who I would or wouldn’t want to deal with. After reading through this thread, I’d have no problem doing business with ScoMa ScoMa , and I’m putting the OP on ignore.
 
Cautionary tale and FWIW kind of stuff. But before I get into my tale, I will have to disclose that I just skimmed thru posts after the first page. Just decided to share this in here, well, because of my saga below:

I sold a TGULB with competition finish several months ago on the Big Auction Site. I am kind of super anal about description and photos so I usually tend to provide 15+ photos of my fixed blades on there (limited to 10 per post on here). Some fella buys it after a few back/forth messages and my red flag right off the bat should have been his claim that he had his knives stolen from him at some point in the past, was terribly missing his stolen Busses and although he could not afford this TGULB ($675), he scarped enough pennies together and if I could give him a discount (I am now more prone not to fall for sop stories). I don't accept returns on knives but I do state that if something is not right, something which I had missed, to contact me within 48 hours of receiving and then if I was wrong, I would do my best to make things right best as could.

40+ days later on and right out of the blue, I get a return request on this knife and the buyer refuses to communicate! Reported that I sold a damaged product and accused me of deliberately taking distant blurred photos! I knew that if I did not accept a return, I would get a negative (plus some more I was not aware fully of) but I had to draw the lie somewhere dealing with a very unreasonable buyer who perhaps knew how to game the system. Based on my refusal, I received a pretty nasty negative immediately and then because it was over 30 days and that eBay would not force the return, buyer went to his CC. Cut a long story short, he was awarded a W by Visa, eBay lost and he kept the knife for free after all. Due to some technical miracle, I was covered by their seller protection policy.

I am posting the photo of the said knife below with the little dimple flaw (the claimed damage) which I had totally missed; it was along the edge of the upper fuller on the reverse side. I did miss it though but I always disclose that Busse itself always discloses that the knives with comp finish or stonewash will or may show some tooling or other manufacturing marks! To come back to the essence of this thread, I have seen plenty of those kind of little dimples on their corrugated finish swords. Please understand that I am not trying to equate this buyer to the crook who I sold to, but what may seem as glaring flaws to some will get an easy pass by some other of the faithful. I think that in this case, both the buyer and the seller just entrenched way too early and then started lobbing grenades at each other.

my now sold "damaged" TGULB is shown below with the dimple kind of right above that little red dot marked in the fuller. It can be super magnified to make it look like a huge crater on the Moon! Where does one draw the line?!

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If you plan to sell a more expensive knife i think it is expected that you inspect it for flaws or anything someone might point out if they could examine it in person. I have purchased quite a few Busse knives and I have never seen one with a pit like the last picture shows. That definitely looks like a pit and the others look like they could be stains or decarb but I've never seen a pit like that new from Busse in any pictures here or anywhere else. I would have contacted Busse about it when I received the sword, not try to sell it later and not mention it. Sure then uter could have asked for more pictures or more carefully inspected the pictures in the sale thread. I will be very careful dealing with that seller in the future because I will have to be very explicit in my words and still worry that he didn't notice a pretty bad flaw and didn't mention it up front. I'm also never sending anyone $900 ff unless I know them very well. Lessons have been learned here and the OP has learned a sad lesson of these forums that you have to be careful who you complain about or you will get attacked for telling what happened. Sometimes it's just better to block people and only deal with people that have been here for 20+ years.
 
thebrain said:
OP has learned a sad lesson of these forums that you have to be careful who you complain about or you
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I think the lesson is about properly seeking remedy in good faith with the other party before making a public spectacle.
 
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