Damaged knife becomes new--it's a miracle!

elkins45

elkins45

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I sold a knife to a guy earlier this year. It was truly NIB. As soon as he received it he questioned the condition and eventually wanted me to give him a 'partial refund' to make up for the 'damage'. I told him that I would just take the knife back instead for a full refund--so he decided to 'keep it anyway' and maybe send it back to Benchmade to have them repair it. I still have all the correspondence saved from these exchanges.

Lo and behold the exact same knife (I know it's the same knife because it had a numbered blade) shows up for sale by him in the Exchange as NIB. It's a miracle--the scratches that were supposed to have occurred during shipping have healed themselves!

Even in the unlikely case he was being honest about it getting scratched then how can it be NIB now if he had Benchmade to fix it?

Anybody else ever have a buyer try to extort a 'partial refund' because of 'shipping damage'?
 
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No..but this would point to a scammer, and you might want to post more info, as long as you can back up what you say with emails. G
 
gunknifenut said:
No..but this would point to a scammer, and you might want to post more info, as long as you can back up what you say with emails. G
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Actually, on second thought, I went back and edited out some of the details. This thread really isn't about 'calling him out' as much as it is about my curiosity about how commonly a buyer attempts to question the condition of a knife after the sale in order to get a post-sale discount.

But to address your point---I have all of my PM's sent via email and I have the entire conversation, including mentioning the number that is etched on the blade. I just don't want to slander somebody on the 1% chance I'm wrong. Now if 10 other people post a response about how a guy did the same thing to them and it's the same guy every time than that's a pattern that needs to be exposed.
 
I've had people try this with other items I've sold. The response is and always will be- Return the item as shipped for a full refund if you're not happy.

I usually don't hear from them after that.
 
elkins 45 said:
Even in the unlikely case he was being honest about it getting scratched then how can it be NIB now if he had Benchmade to fix it?
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I bought a new BM and it had a scratch on the black aluminum handle. Called BM to see if they could fix it. The lady told me they do not repair cosmetic damage.
 
A couple of people have tried to do this to me. I always take pictures with datestamps before sending knives out specifically for this reason.
 
These are the worst kind of buyers and sellers here - the outright crooks get called out fast, but some do this kind of stuff over and over again, leaving a sour taste in honest people's mouths. We ought to know who it is if it turns out to be true...
 
I hope the person who buys it claims it arrived looking like it was used to chop down a pine tree and then demands the seller send him back 50% of the money!!!
 
Tell us who it is- then they can defend themselves and the rest of us will have the advantage of shady dealings. If the scratches were enough to complain and not send back then I smell scam. The community deserves to know to protect itself IMO.
 
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Tell us who it is- then they can defend themselves and the rest of us will have the advantage of shady dealings. If the scratches were enough to complain and not send back then I smell scam. The community deserves to know to protect itself IMO.
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+1 ... That may save someone else some grief..... :thumbup:
 
I've no idea what this post it about....the OP's signature.....mesmerizing.

All jokes aside, This hasn't happened to me, whenever I buy a knife I make sure I am aware of the condition shown in pictures if its not NIB chances are its a user and I'm going to beat the everloving piss out of it anyways.

Though more times then not the pictures don't do the product justice, they make the shit look way worse than it is. I'm always surprised when I get the knives I buy as they look much better in hand.

But I agree with everyone else post usernames so we can AT LEAST avoid dealing with people suspect of doing this.
 
Since I started my business (website) I had just 2 customers that claimed the product was damaged in some way, scratch, dent, rip or broken clip or something. they both asked for a small refund, I said to just send it back and they will get a brand new one sent at no charge to them. they both not only took a month or so to get back to me but both said "no forget it, it will be fine". made me wonder if they where being honest or looking to just get a little cash back.
 
I had that happen to me once on a LE benchmade. I had not used it and the clip had a brownish sheen. Mine came that way new and I imagine that was normal for them at the time. I wound up discounting $30 just to avoid losing shipping costs for the round trip.
 
I have received knives several times that were not in the condition the seller described, and some of those times we have worked out a discount due to the condition of the knife. Not because I was scamming, but because I would still have bought the knife in its ACTUAL, REAL condition, but I would have not have been willing to pay as much as I would have had the knife really been in the condition described.

Sometimes I have contacted the maker and if they say they can refurb it for, say, $50, I will suggest a refund of that amount so I can send it to the maker and get a knife in the NIB or flawless condition it was supposed to be in when I bought it.

One time the difference between the seller's photos and the actual knife was so stark that I forwarded the pix to a well-respected professional knife photographer who examined them and opined that they had been photoshopped.
 
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