ESEE forum closed... bummer.

On the bright side, ESEE blades should be more readily available and pricing even more competitive with the decreased demand due to less exposure. Recently, there was a feeding frenzy for the Junglas that was no doubt built up due to numerous "Junglas out of stock everywhere" threads in the BF ESEE forum.

 

What has been seen cannot be unseen. I doubt it will play out like that.

 

I agree, but will add that exposure will not be all it could be in the future for ESEE. Taking their ball and going home lowers their profile - unless of course their new forum really takes off.

 

i'd bet its taking off very well, just a hunch

 

Hmm. . . that's too bad, it was a good forum.

I am not about to join another forum though, I barely have time to check a few of the ones I am currently using.

 

Yeah, but that's their choice, and I give them credit for having the balls to do it.


For some people it's more then just pushing product.




Big Mike

 

I have been a member of the other ESEE forum since it started a couple of weeks ago. I participate there, I participate here. Jeff feels he can service and interact better with his customers under his own roof, I don't have a problem with that. It will not slow me down on bladeforums or on the ESEE forum..

What's the big deal people?

 

Heh, lol.

That's a fact.

pete

 

BF is great for it's one stop shopping experience. I don't even have time to fully explore all that is here, let alone join another single brand knife forum. I'm pretty sure I can keep up with ESEE in General Discussion, just like I do for my Kershaw news. If I ever get a bug to do some real In-the-Jungle Surviving, I might sign up then.

pete

 

...said the man with 18,200+ posts in 6 years! LOL.

Seriously though, I just got my temp password from Jeff and plan to join the other forum. It's just one more tab I'll have to keep open in my Firefox browser so it's not that big a deal. I normally keep about 30 tabs open with email, calendars, multiple forums, etc. They all load everytime I launch Firefox. Thank goodness for the Session Saver add-on!

 

Hey Ken, all I can say (and this is honestly just constructive criticism) is maybe do like I do and try to think twice before responding to posts.

I say this because up until last week I'd never interacted with you and when I started that thread asking an honest question about what price I should be asking for my Caly3 you chimed in with the remark about not selling anything outside the buy/sell forum, telling me about saving my "sales pitch" or whatever you called it for that same buy/sell forum or you'd be issuing infractions.

In all honesty I was thinking "WTF is wrong with this guy? Why's he power-tripping".
I had specified I was only considering selling it to another person not on this forum to help him out since he can't carry big blades but wanted a Caly, but you apparently thought I was trying to scam the system and sneak a sale in here. My "sales pitch" was simply my attempt to make that clear but instead I got the snarky remark.

After I reiterated my case, apologized again and asked you to close the thread you did so without so much as a boo, far less an apology.

I'll be honest, your remark pissed me off and I was seriously considering saying something about it but realized while I'm a paying member here (due to the ESEE sub forum I might add), I'm still a relative nobody here and would likely just end up getting banned. Well in light of this situation I though maybe I would say something. I don't know, maybe taking everything into consideration it'll give you something to reflect on. Maybe it wasn't your intent to come off the way you did, but it did come off that way to me. Who knows, maybe you've come off like that with others too and that's why they're "hating on you" over there.

I'm over the Caly3 issue and I'm sure you're a great guy. I just wanted to state my piece and hope that maybe it gives you something to think about and reflect on and ultimately make you an even better mod. Maybe I'm not the only one that's felt humiliated for lack of a better word, by something you posted, so maybe that explains why the people you thought you got along well with here are hating on you over there. I don't know, I haven't read the posts you're referring to so I'm just speculating.

Anyhow, enough of my rambling. I hope all works out. No hard feelings.

Peace bro.

 

Wow, i've been away for a bit but was not expecting to find this when I returned....this kinda sucks. I love ESEE knives but there is no way I am going to jump ship from BF. There are for more interesting things going on here to even consider such a thing. I wish Jeff and Mike the best, I will continue to buy their outstanding knives and I am still going to participate in next years jungle survival course. In the world of forums this is and always will be my home.

 

Hi Bob, why do you feel like you'd have to jump ship by joining their forum? Why can't you be a member of both? This is my favorite forum too but I'm on many others, including other knife forums, simply because this forum doesn't have dedicated sub forums for other knives I enjoy, like other forums do. For you to not join those and miss out on all the great knowledge on other forums doesn't make sense. I'm sure there are people on other forums that would appreciate the knowledge you could share with them over there too.
This is a great forum, but it's not the end all/ be all. I respect your opinion but why cheat yourself?

 

Ken, I gotta agree with that in one way or another.

 

wow...

 

Hi Ken, check your in box.

Thanks.

 

If it wasnt for Blade Forums, i would have never heard of ESEE. Whatever the reasoning, it's a step backwards. Like the first proto-sapien deciding the open grass plains were too scary, and the deep, comforting forest was a safer place to be... way to de-evolve.

Also, all mods on all forums are power-trippers. the end.