I am not sure what I might have done to make you say you wouldn`t do business with me but you have every right to feel the way you do.
How would you react if you sold an item to a customer and they wanted a refund without returning the item purchased first? This was pretty much the situation before I started this thread.
Except this is a vendor customer transaction it's a customer to customer transaction. Huge difference. The vendor has likely a reputation/store/holdings in merchandise that he could loose if he cheats you due to bad worth of mouth. You the customer have nothing. So the customer in the end returns to product to the vendor first. I run our family business along with my sister, and we have great business etiquette, we almost cover losses if a issue occurs that is our fault.
Let's get the facts:
1. Bladechick reconfirmed he or she never carried it, that is it. There is no further proof that she did carry it or did or did not notice the wear. It's possible it may have slipped. How can she answer when he or she does not know or remember?
2. Bladechick did ask you to send the knife first. This was wrong, however it was perhaps better for you to have waited in communication with he or she until you were certain that she would not ship first before making this thread.
3. Bladechick changed her mind or understood the scenario and promptly mailed your knife back, we are still to see if you will receive it or not, something tells me you will since she has no reason to lie for just 1 more day of sanctuary.
4. You continued to harass her about the clip. This is why I will not do business with you, your ethics are bad. You are the customer that buys something, complains ($35 knife with defect, big woopy) and even after resolved complains more. What do you want just speak clearly. Do you want compensation or something? Written notarized letter? Her mistakes do not qualify you to overreact. You owe Bladechick an apology in my books.
There is a reasonable response to unreasonable conditions for a product, failure to react properly is almost as bad as the present unreasonable conditions of a product. For example if I refused to purchase a candy for my theoretically child, and the child were to get down on the floor bawling. This is an unreasonable response, you overreacted in this case.
The same way if I bought a $35 knife from a vendor or a person and it came with minor defects that I would not go around bad mouthing him in public. Specially not for $35. Had he in the end refused to do anything about it, then I would have opened a thread and made quick mention, not berated them even after they resolved the issue. In this case, Bladechick did offer to do something about it. The terms were not agreed upon, and should have been negotiated in private.
I would do business with Bladechick given her maturity, and as for you well I'd rather avoid you, you are still showing childish behavior over a minor issue when we at BF have bigger issues at hand like rampant greedy vendors, knife rights threats, and of course loving of our knves. I find it laughable that people agree with your overreaction, but whatever your principals, your actions, your consequences to deal with.
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