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On December 4 2012 I made a deal with Gary Ek son of knife maker John Ek to replace the cord wrap on my EK #5 bowie with hardwood scales. Our original deal was for 50$USD for the job and I pay the shipping. That was fine. I mailed away the knife which then got misplaced in Florida for a month. He found the knife at a neighbors house (so he claims) then upped the rate for the job to 100$ USD. I paid because I wanted the job done quickly. My mistake. I am messaging you all now in 2014 to tell the world I don't yet have my knife. I messaged him more times than I would care to count and he eventually stopped answering my messages. I have taken to sending him messages directly on his 2 facebook pages. That sometimes gets a response.
After more than a year of constant inquiries he told me now that my knife isn't even in his possession and the person who does have it is in Cuba on some sort of extended vacation. If he couldn't do the job then he should have told me. I would have understood.Sometimes things in life just don't work out.When I demanded the return of my knife he cited financial difficulties only to post pictures of himself yucking it up in Key West with a bunch of radio people and having a blast.
I didn't want to take this to the knife community at large but I'm done screwing around. I can and will provide all the chat logs as evidence of all my claims if required.(over a year of facebook chat logs will make for a massive post).
Spread the word to the whole knife world. Gary Ek is a bad business man. Don't deal with him.
After more than a year of constant inquiries he told me now that my knife isn't even in his possession and the person who does have it is in Cuba on some sort of extended vacation. If he couldn't do the job then he should have told me. I would have understood.Sometimes things in life just don't work out.When I demanded the return of my knife he cited financial difficulties only to post pictures of himself yucking it up in Key West with a bunch of radio people and having a blast.
I didn't want to take this to the knife community at large but I'm done screwing around. I can and will provide all the chat logs as evidence of all my claims if required.(over a year of facebook chat logs will make for a massive post).
Spread the word to the whole knife world. Gary Ek is a bad business man. Don't deal with him.
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