Dear Busse Combat Knives isent my money good enough?

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Post a thread in the Want to Buy section and explain you're situation and that's you'll accept responsibility if the knife is siezed, problem solved.

Sucks that you can't order direct, but it happens, especially with a double edged knuckle knife, but just because you can't get one direct doesn't mean you can't get one.
 
Step 1: Be sweet and make friends with people.
Step 2: Display virtue and character.
Step 3: Accept it kindly when your new forum friends agree to ship you your dream knife.

"You can get whatever you want as long as you help enough people get what they want." - Zig Zigler
Sometimes the only thing people want is to know somebody worth knowing.
 
I realize this isn't me being hugely sympathetic, but as a seller myself I also broadly refuse to ship quite a few products overseas even when totally legal. Why? Because any time you're moving between two postal systems the chances of something screwy happening where the product is returned (rare) or just disappears outright (FAR more common) is much MUCH higher than with domestic shipments. Add in something controversial, easily identifiable by X-ray screening, and quite valuable and your chances of it mysteriously going missing are even higher.

Instead of complaining though, why not try problem solving? So many people seem to think solutions should be handed to them, lest they have to think for themselves. Clearly transferring money from abroad to the US is possible, that isn't the hangup. So what you need is a shipping address in the US. You could beg some user here to do that for you, but what most people do is use a forwarding service like MyUS.com. I'm sure if you got the money to Busse and produced one of their individual domestic addresses they'd have no problem moving the knife there. Then its a quick hop overseas to you.
 
Another shipping service like MyUS.com is BongoUS.com. I believe there is another called Shipito.com, and probably a few more out there.

Check 'em out, One of these might be your best bet.
hunterseeker5, thank you for the tip! I forgot all about these services... :o :)
 
Just curious here--why is an individual living in Ohio able to ship overseas, but not Busse? What's the reason?
 
SavageSmurf said:
Just curious here--why is an individual living in Ohio able to ship overseas, but not Busse? What's the reason?
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See my post here:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-my-money-good-enough?p=11400072#post11400072

I'ts one thing for an individual to take the risk by claiming that a double edged knife with knuckle dusters is a 'garden tool', it's another entirely for a company to do so. There is a vague law that allows postal workers to kick back anything the perceive as a weapon intended solely to harm, and there isn't an easy truthful way to describe the Argonne Assault that would avoid that.
 
While it is not necessary to be rude about it, Busse can accept or reject offers to buy at its discretion. Until Busse has accepted a contract to buy, there is no sale. Only Busse can explain, if it wishes, why it won't accept offers from overseas on this model. Could be legal problem or risks of legal problems. Could be it has been "burned" on overseas sales, as many have been. I can tell you that failure to deliver gets PayPal or credit card transactions reversed almost 100%, so Busse is exposed to loss if foreign customs confiscates a knife. Even careful documentation of FOB U.S. terms may not be enough to get a foreign bank to rule against its customer.
 
My question to the OP; is your fellow countryman wrong about the knife laws in Sweden?

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/500454-Knife-laws-in-Sweden

If it’s true that “knuckledusters, ninja stars or other item especially designed to be used as weapons (....) and balis or stilettoes may not be handed to people under 21 or presented for sale” then I would assume that their importation would be prohibited by Swedish customs.

I’ve collected and sold military knives for over 30 years. I used to buy and sell overseas, but not anymore. About 7 years ago I “donated” a wonderful US MK I 1918 knuckle knife (the original Argonne Assault) to UK customs. This was after a buyer assured me that it wouldn’t pose any customs problems and was legal to own. About 6 months later I “donated” a superb WWII knuckle theater knife to Italian customs under the same circumstances. And those were the last knives I’ll ever ship outside the US.

Bottom line, I think Busse is being prudent by not shipping the AA model overseas and anyone that wants to make a secondary sale of one outside the US may experience the distinctly unpleasant experience of losing their knife and only getting a customs seizure form in the mail in return.
 
Jaxx said:
Another shipping service like MyUS.com is BongoUS.com. I believe there is another called Shipito.com, and probably a few more out there.

Check 'em out, One of these might be your best bet.
hunterseeker5, thank you for the tip! I forgot all about these services... :o :)
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Yup there are quite a few.

No worries mate. I've shipped now to every country in the EU and quite a few more. ;) Overseas shipping is an absolute nightmare. I don't in the least blame Busse for saying it straight up isn't something they can be liable for. Even the "good" countries like the UK whose primary language is English can be quite problematic at times, although the royal mail is fast. Don't even get me started on countries which don't use the Latin alphabet. ;)
 
Last Visible Canary said:
One option, if you know anyone in the states, is to have busse ship it to a U.S. adress and then have that person ship it to you. It's frustrating to have to spend an additional 14.99$ to have it shipped to another address before shipping it to you, but it may be possible. Another frustration is that the shipping adress has to match the billing adress, so you'd potentially have to send the U.S. customer your money rather than pay direction on one of your credit cards.
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Now...you're thinking outside of the box.
 
As long the buyer he's willing to pay the full insurance & the confirmation signature on receiving the goods I really don't see the problem.
It's an european country that we talking about here, not a third world country.
 
Not legal to ship here in the Peoples Republic of California USA either so don't feel too hurt about it.
 
Virre, if USPS won't do it your only other viable option might be UPS and they are expensive. I've shipped a few knives to Russia for collectors and USPS has the best price around. For UPS you could be paying almost $240 USC, plus the cost of the knife. Are you wanting a proxy here?? There's always posts asking for those :-)
 
kurodrago said:
As long the buyer he's willing to pay the full insurance & the confirmation signature on receiving the goods I really don't see the problem.
It's an european country that we talking about here, not a third world country.
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This is why:
https://www.paypal.com/my/webapps/mpp/security/sell-shippingrecommendations

http://forum.purseblog.com/ebay-for...-tracking-signature-international-543779.html

USPS hands the package off to the countries postal service, which generally means you don't get a delivery confirmation or a signature. I'm sure there are services that can consistently provide a confirmation of delivery and/or a signature, but I don't know what they are. USPS certainly isn't consistent.

Even though we're talking about first world countries, that doesn't keep them from having third world esque customs departments.
 
Last Visible Canary said:
This is why:
https://www.paypal.com/my/webapps/mpp/security/sell-shippingrecommendations

http://forum.purseblog.com/ebay-for...-tracking-signature-international-543779.html

USPS hands the package off to the countries postal service, which generally means you don't get a delivery confirmation or a signature. I'm sure there are services that can consistently provide a confirmation of delivery and/or a signature, but I don't know what they are. USPS certainly isn't consistent.




Even though we're talking about first world countries, that doesn't keep them from having third world esque customs departments.
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That' is an hypothesis not an answer. It's like saying Busse can't sell to Sweden Army.
 
Viktor, detta är taget från tullens hemsida:

Min son är i Thailand och vill ta med sig karatepinnar hem till Sverige, går det bra?
För att få ta in karatepinnar till Sverige krävs införseltillstånd från polisen. Införsel av karatepinnar, knogjärn, blydaggar, butterflyknivar och dyligt är reglerat i "Förordning om tillstånd till införsel av vissa farliga föremål".
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You need a permit to bring knuckle dusters into the country (Sweden).
 
My question to the OP; is your fellow countryman wrong about the knife laws in Sweden?

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/sh...laws-in-Sweden

If it’s true that “knuckledusters, ninja stars or other item especially designed to be used as weapons (....) and balis or stilettoes may not be handed to people under 21 or presented for sale” then I would assume that their importation would be prohibited by Swedish customs.

I’ve collected and sold military knives for over 30 years. I used to buy and sell overseas, but not anymore. About 7 years ago I “donated” a wonderful US MK I 1918 knuckle knife (the original Argonne Assault) to UK customs. This was after a buyer assured me that it wouldn’t pose any customs problems and was legal to own. About 6 months later I “donated” a superb WWII knuckle theater knife to Italian customs under the same circumstances. And those were the last knives I’ll ever ship outside the US.

Bottom line, I think Busse is being prudent by not shipping the AA model overseas and anyone that wants to make a secondary sale of one outside the US may experience the distinctly unpleasant experience of losing their knife and only getting a customs seizure form in the mail in return.
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The Swedish laws is a mess, i actualy did mail both the police and the customs and got the same ansver from both places that a "knuckelduster" is a knuckelduster not more not less, if its atatched to a knife, axe or cup its totaly legal, guess its the same as some US states have about thos highly suspicious "belt buckles"

But i still do see the point, so i guess i have to try to work around it, anyway thanks for all the help and also thanks for some less usefull sarcasm, borderline trolling and rudeness :)
 
If it makes you feel any better, your money isn't good on the majority of the exchange because most people don't want to ship over seas. So it's like asking the sellers why won't they ship over seas. Some people just rather not go through all the trouble cause it's just not worth it.
 
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