Gone too far??

Hmmmmmmm. On-line only, but no on-line catelog, no 800 number for orders?

I smell aging flounder here. Anybody ever buy a knife from this alleged outfit?
 
Glock,
I can kill alot more people with a rubber band and a few paperclips than that Ford Tempo can. You wouldn't be able to get it up to speed to do much damage to a mailbox let alone people!!! ;)

I think this was ACME Knifes excuse to get out of the business.
 
I guess everyone pretty much feels the way I did when I started the thread.

While I agree with Normark and almost every other sentiment expressed here, I have a different take on Acme.

I think they may have been ready to close anyway (No one's ever heard of them) and they used the events of last week as an excuse... just a hunch...

That way they can say one of two things..."I closed because I did not know how to run a business in a competitive industry" or "I closed it because of moral and ethical reasons"

Typical of the bleeding hearts when they make a statement I usually think they are saying it because it sounds compassionate and note because it is the right thing to do or the truth.
 
Here's what I've written to them. Not my best work...but but I got my point across.
Dear Sir/Ma’am:

I just read on your website the following:

Do [sic] to the Tragic event we have been watching over the past few days. [sic] Acme Knife will not sell any Knives to anyone, what so over. [sic] I hope the other Knife sites out there along with Acme Knife feels the same way and does the same thing to protect America against Terrorists.

Thank you for your interest with Acme Knife.

Your position confuses me. The items used to tragically hijack the four airliners last week were tools that can be purchased at any hardware store, department store, or grocery store in America. Knives represented on your site (depending on model) are already outlawed from carrying onto flights.

There are many menacing implements commonly available to the general public that can be used to threaten and harm. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has and will regulate what will be allowed on airplanes. Thus, whether you choose to either sell or not sell knives, it is the FAA (not you) that bears the responsibility for airplane security.

Since you are now no longer in the knife selling business out of fear that no terrorist could ever use the products you sell to commandeer an airplane, I thought I would list products you may wish to avoid selling in the future: shoe strings (garrote), pens/pencils (stabbing, lead poisoning), paper weights (bludgeoning), cleaning products (poisoning or blinding agents), paper (paper cuts), paper clips (can be chained together to make a garrote; or a stout clip can puncture a blood vessel or eye), belts (also garrotes), flowers (thorns on roses), among just about every other product currently being sold in America.
I’m sorry for your decision. This level of fear is what the terrorists were hoping for.

I hope for you only the best of financial success in the future.

Best Regards,

Ron Andersen
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I'm ashamed to be in the same country as such ignorant cowards.
 
That was the most stupid thing I've ever heard and read.What we need is to get rid of people like him to protect America.:barf: What a moron! If anything this recent tradgedy is all the more reason we need to be armed.Absolutely disgusted here in N.Y.,Ralph
 
We need more people with thinking like this.Like we need carcinoma of the brain.:barf:
What a complete waste.
 
The terrorists brought down the World Trade Center with airplanes. I guess we better ban airplanes.
 
I have looked around the website and, in my opinion, it is not a real online business. It appears to be a sample website prepared by the owner of the web hosting site. Here are the specific problems I noted:
  • the online order form is not secure
  • they do not accept credit cards
  • the order form is copyrighed "Martech" (see below)

At the following link:
CelestialNet List of Clients
there is a list of 'clients' of the web hosting site (including ACME). Note that on the same page we have "Martech", seller of "one of a kind custom engraved marble clocks, plaques". This is the same "Martech" that is listed in the copyright notice at the bottom of the order page of the ACME site. "Martech" also does not accept credit cards yet ("comming soon"). Another "business" on the client list, "Francis Hill Cues", has no contact information and no way to order product. Finally, we have "Precision Video". I don't know what they are selling but their "credit card conformation" form is NOT SECURE and therefore they are not a professional e-business site. On a good note, the Bedlingtons were cute.
 
I'm going with Steve here, this looks like a troll-trap set by some whining pacifist with access to the site.

They list a rather impressive list of brands for a company none of us has ever even heard of, don't you think?

The webmaster can't even spell, for crying out loud!
 
Originally posted by TorzJohnson
I think Steve Harvey's got it right. I don't buy it for a minute.
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I see your point and thought about it more. I don't consider myself easily decieved....

The date I created the bookmark was 3-15-01, so the page has been up at least since then.

The date on the hit counter says 5-13-1998 and they do appear to be a wholesaler (many suppliers in any industry don't accept credit cards). That hit counter is a canned plug-in so it's pretty hard to modify.

I was going to call them but there is no number listed.

I still think they were a real business however pathetic and sad. Heck, New Graham Pharmacy (a great place, BTW) sells knives on line so it's not that inconceivable that another company would have an offshoot knife dealership.

Either way, I think it would be cool if the scabs would sign up for a BF account and come to this thread and clear the air, but I bet $1 they won't...
 
I don't agree, I don't get his motivation. There's a lot more effective ways to take a stand and make a point. Who is going to see this? Not very many people.. How did you come across this in the first place, cpirtle?
 
To be honest, I don't remember how I found them originally.

Today I was going through cleaning out bookmarks that were dead and got to them that way. I'm always bookmarking potential places to research knives and probably just marked them for future reference.

I personally don't think their trolling the knife industry, probably just a non-knife-nut who got into the business somehow and is now trying to scapegoat the industry.
 
I just sent in a request for a price quote for a Spydie Native. I'll let ya'll know what, if anything, they send me back. Maybe I should have expressed interest in a Sharpmaker or other non knife. It might be interesting.

If they tell me the same crap they posted on top about not selling knives, then I'll get mad...

Karl
 
And Boeing should stop making airplanes too?

One of the reasons that these attacks were so terrible is that the planes used were selected to be nearly completely full of fuel. The WTC towers did not collapse because of the impact. They collapsed because of the intense fires caused by all the jet fuel. So, maybe Shell should stop refining jet fuel.

And if United and American hadn't of been flying those planes, this would never have happened. So, they should part out their planes, sell them for scrap metal, and close their operations too.

Those planes were flying because the passengers were paying them too. Most of those passengers were on business trips. So, all businesses should close so that there'll be no more business travel.

Where do you stop? You stop by saying something that is not popular in this society right now. You stop by saying that people are responsible for their actions.
 
Liberal, candie-assed sheeple should be banned! Then knives would have a better, safer place to live! Seriously, I hate when others try to assign blame for human activity on inanimate objects, and then try to ban said oblects from those of us who have never caused problems. What a crock.

By the way, Ruger stock did very well on the market today :)

Steve
 
In my view this is a bad very bad reaction. A member of the knife community that is blaming the knives, not the people that used them. This company should be firmly behind the people that are going to need knives in the near future. Instead of stopping the sale of knives, they should be trying to help get them into the hands of the military, the police, firemen, ambulance staff and paramedics. Offer discounts and first in line service to these people.

Be part of the solution not part of the problem.
 
In response to KWM's post, I was just wondering if we can hear of any "good" knife stories that come out of this tragedy? This would really put sheeple in their place.

Stuff like:
"I needed to cut open a box of food for the rescue workers."

"I had get through some tangled wires to free a casualty, so I used my knife to cut them away."
 
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