Business driven? I went out on a limb and sold to you when noone else would go near you with a barge pole and sold you knives at the same price as would sell them to someone locally taking a hit on knives on occasion as I foolishly thought of you as a friend over on the other forum.
This was betrayed when you purchased a knife, brand new, which I sent to you less than 3 hours after I had received them direct from supplier.
Rather than approach me directly you decided to post directly onto an open forum and the undertone of the post was that I had ripped you off and sold you a used knife.
A knife that at the time noone else other than myself and a few others had actually handled.
As it turns out the consensus of opinion was that you were so wet behind the ears that you didn't appreciate the difference between a $15 dollar Chinese knife with a micarta scale not being a well finished as a knife costing far more.
Despite the issue apparently being resolved you then spent months having the occasional dig regarding this knife and your apparently awful experience!
As to my only posting about my "business" and that being my only driving force I suggest you actually take the time to base your comment on fact rather than the usual Port tinted view you have on life!
I have almost 15,000 posts on the forum you mention and the accusation of a "gang" is nothing short of laughable.
Your actions to scurry away and ask for your account there to be closed when faced with accusation of wrong doing speak volumes in themself.
I posted here at the time of the incident as as part of a knife community overall I would t want anyone to purchase a knife that you very obviously claimed I have issues with.
You posted here saying that you had issues with a couple of sebenzas then tried to sell them elsewhere with no mention of the issues, when challenged you said it was a different knife and that the one with issues was back for repair despite being very clear here that you didn't want to send knife back to Chris Reeves due to the cost etc.
The other large Sebenza that you bought from a member of long standing and didn't mention the issue was also posted up for sale with no mentions of an issue until you were challenged regarding it.
The Internet is a small place Eduardo, you really should be careful what you write and where as lies do tend to have a habit of catching up with you
So you were on a limb by selling me a knife?
Wow, what’s the deal with that?
Did the others threatened you with some kind of punishment for dealing with me? I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case
All that because i told the truth before and disn’t kiss #sses?
When i posted on the thread about the 24,77$ knife, 15$ is what appears on the site where you buy it from wich i’m sure you get for a lot less due to the wholesale prices, i speciafically said that it wasn’t you that ripped me off but that the product had bad f&f.
I see now why you were so mad!
I somehow spoiled it for you, i see. You were expecting that all would be quiet about it even if theirs had the same issues as mine!
Let me tell you something boy, lots of people when buy knives and have bad experiences with them, they come to forums and talk about them. Like you did when complaining openly about your DPX Hest! Slipped your mind?
Anyway, i’m not saying it is right or wrong but many do so you should have been prepared for it when establishing a business like yours.
So, i was supposed to be your friend hã?
I guess you took that from the pm i sent months after you saying i was sorry about the situation between us.
For the ones that this guy still hasn’t snitched about it, i sent him a pm saying how sorry i was because of the bad atmosphere it created between us.
I still think i was right in all that mess but despite that i still wrote in a pm apologizing because i believe it’s bad karma having any kind of negative vibes towards us.
Well, you sure forgot it quick when you started making fun of a recently acquired knife i had for sell.
The closing account issue!
It wasn’t because i was afraid of what the original seller posted on there that i wanted it to be closed!
It was only a matter of me feeling powerless for one more struggle against the bullies on there.
One against many is the kind of situation that most cowards like to be in so i decided to ask it to be closed.
I was fed up with that partial forum so that’s why i left giraffe!
RevDevil, it's true that the questionable trades occurred on another forum, but this is relevant to BladeForums members because, having closed his account on the UK forum, mantzao is now attempting to set up another European exchange within BladeForums; see here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...very-European-member-should-read-support-this!
I hope you agree that, in this section for customer feedback, these matters should be brought to the attention of BladeForums members, for their own protection.
Also, I respectfully refer you to Bladeforums Rules, Section 6 rule 3:
"These forums operate on honesty and integrity. As such, we have a dim view of people who act dishonestly. Your actions in the community have consequences.
Even if they happen elsewhere."
The truth of the matter is that you are a friend of the OP and a member on the other forum under a different nick on here and that your only concern since you register is to sabotage and undermine my idea of European Exchange section! That’s very clear by reading your posts on the thread.
It took me a bit to realise why you were sabotaging but it’s pretty obvious now after you showed your true colours by telling others where they could exchange knives in Europe!
Your sole purpose here is to try to make me look bad so that this idea doens’t come to fruition because you know that if it does your forum will become even more irrelevant, right?
You know that most on there don’t want to talk about non-locking/slipjoints knives and the main reason why they register there is because of the exchange section.
Sorry to expose you fella!
Pretty sure what he said was
As for the actual issue at hand, i'm more inclined to trust someone who has made a number of valuable contributions to this forum and has good feedback than 3 users with less than 20 posts each.
Thank you brother
Mantzoa is GTG. Folks from other forums can stay at those forums and kick rocks. We have enough drama over here as it is.
Thanks for the support
Everything I posted was fact.
Regarding post counts, hatethatgiraffe is a long standing and respected member of the other forum, with thousands of posts. In fact, if you were able to see the link posted by Karda, you would see that the members complaining about mantzao's trades have thousands of posts between them. One of them is a moderator.
Hate is a long standing and “respected member” because he sells knives that most of the registered users are not willing to take the risk of buying from his source!
That’s his only important contribution to that forum! Oh, that and negative comments about others knives, specially if they are new to the forum.
Because of UK’s knife laws they aren’t willing to risk they’re earned money gambling with customs so they have to put up with his negative posts and useless business driven started threads.
I understand how frustrating that must be but they have no choice. I know that most would speak up if their situation was different.
I can’t see the link but i’m sure the characters that are complaining are the same ones that made me leave so no worries. I’m used to it as i said in my first post on here.
Nice to see you editing posts rather than replying as per usual Eduardo!
Also nice to see you resorting to personal attacks regarding my race as well as others and their situations financially or otherwise!
Did you not tell a moderator that it was another small Sebenza you had sold and that one was back at Reeves for repair?
As the members here can see from my low post count I don't post here often, mostly browse as I tend to buy knives from uk makers or sources due to customs issues and seizures.
I have no real interest in you Eduardo, you were shown to be a liar on multiple occasions as well as not being able to face up to any accusation directed towards you.
Your habit of editing posts after someone has replied in order that you can manipulate them is renowned as is your whiny attitude when caught out!
I wish anyone luck in their future dealings with you.
In my experience and in that of others they are certainly going to need it!
It’s amazing the time i’m taking to reply to someone like you but all i have to say on this is that if you can’t nor do you want to understand what i posted first on here regarding the sebenzas i can only say for you to read it againg!
If you ever try to get out of your comfort zone and register in other forum where the main language there isn’t your native one then tell me if it’s easy not to edit!
I’m sure you’ll never do it because you’re a bit basic.
So basic that you think that saying that you’re Scottish is a racial insult!!
That’s a nationality John, not a race LOL
I apologize for this whole thing people, specially to the MODs but i had to reply to this.
I hope this to be my last post regarding this.
In conclusion, I've dealt with amazing people throught these last two years, selling, trading, and talking about knives in general!
I've made some friends with who i talk to on a regular basis because of these kind of forums and, on here, i never had a problem with nobody until these class acts came to disturb!
I leave it up to you people to draw your own conclusions about this whole thing but believe me when i say that i hope the European Exchange section comes to fruition because it would help out lots of europeans that don't get the chance of having the knives they want even if the OP's intended objective is achieved and i don't get the chance of dealing on there.
