Good news / Bad news

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The good news is I won a bid on a Minuteman OT on the usual auction site. I was pretty excited to add another sub 3" traditional slipjoint to my edc rotation.


The bad news is I didn't read the fine print carefully enough and it's a Taylor. :barf:


Oh, well; live and learn. At least I'm not out a lot of money. I guess it's my chance to see what the quality of these is really like.
 
IF IT IS NOT PROUDLY STAMPED 'USA' OR made in the USA, DO NOT BUY THEM.
You could alway give it to someone you do not like... Ken
 
Through clever word order and a lack of commas, the description implied that it was USA.

Mostly I'm annoyed to have been careless. I've been around the knife block a bit and this was a newbie move on my part. If it is complete rubbish, I'll toss it. If it has at least a useable level of quality, I'll keep it in the glove compartment or something. I doubt that I'll enjoy carrying it.

Where do you guys get your real Schrades?
 
Foilist said:
Where do you guys get your real Schrades?
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Got my first one at age 7 from my grandfather.
Got my latest one last night on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Old-Timer-S...eEoSJUgPM39FwZVqsC4385s=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Here was a set I hoped would be my next. But seller ended the auction early due to "item no longer available." Another tool selling tools on eBay, and another name added to the list of sellers not worth wasting time on:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/300802670232?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
Of course I already have a set like that. But still, what a jerkoff thing to do with 11 people watching the item... :thumbdn:
 
Hi Bob,
That is a nice set of Red Bone knives, I too have a set the same.
Did anyone bid of those knives before thy were remover from sale.
I have seen them sell for top $$$'s You do dig up some BAD sellers on eBay from time to time... Ken
 
koldgold said:
Hi Bob,
That is a nice set of Red Bone knives, I too have a set the same.
Did anyone bid of those knives before thy were remover from sale.
I have seen them sell for top $$$'s You do dig up some BAD sellers on eBay from time to time... Ken
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I don't believe there were any bids yet, but there were several days remaining on the auction clock.

Those sets don't come around very often, and this one was in really nice condition. Would have been a great set for one of the forum guys here who needed it. I wouldn't have bid very high since it's a duplicate for me, but I would have made sure it didn't sell too cheap either. ;)
 
I alway put a bid on eBay when I like an item.
A bid of $10 would have made it harder for the seller to remove them from sale... Ken
 
koldgold said:
I alway put a bid on eBay when I like an item.
A bid of $10 would have made it harder for the seller to remove them from sale... Ken
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I've done that. I call it a "tag bid". I've also fallen for a Taylor knife when they first appeared in the fake U.S. packaging (complete with flag). I was not at all impressed with the knife I got in '05, but admitedly it was one of the first production and a poor copy in F&F. That said, I do not willingly buy them for other personal reasons. And I do not have warm, fuzzy feelings for sellers who use various methods to trick buyers into thinking they are buying the real deal, a U.S. made pre-2005 Schrade.
 
I bought a LB7 the same way a few years ago and the next morning I gave it away.
 
I am not making accusations for any one auction, but here are two things that happen, when the seller pulls the listing. Someone has made him a good offer, so he pulls the item and they do the paypal transaction, which is sorta kinda legal for ebay. The other scenario is similar, but this time they either trade phone numbers or private emails and conduct the same transaction, and cut ebay/paypal out of the deal. If you see a seller conducting business who you think will have some items in the future that you might want, you are quite welcome to message that seller and trade phone numbers, emails, etc. for the future. This might seem kinda unethical but that is how business works much of the time, and I am not just talking about ebay sellers. By the way, I have never stepped out of the ebay/paypal rules, and don't intend to. I intend to try my hand at selling a few items this winter, if the economy looks like it might work out alright.
 
If the seller was willing to let the item go at a certain price, he could have set a BIN. If they weren't willing to let it sit for the auction duration, they shouldn't have put it up for auction. They wasted my time, that's how I see it.

The other people that waste my time, Reserve auctions. Although perfectly within the tradition of auctions and eBay rules, it's a waste of my time and effort to bid on an item and 'win' the auction, only to have the seller refuse because of some secret invisible Reserve price. If a seller isn't committed to selling their item, why should I bother bidding?
 
I don't like it either, but that's the way it is. Furthermore, I don't think violations of the rules which are reported to ebay get investigated on a regular basis. How do you like the auctions that give a two word description for a non-Schrade knife (usually a POS) and finish the title line with SCHRADE, CASE, KABAR, REMINGTON? This is called search keyword spamming, so that the junker knife lands on EVERYBODY'S saved searches. This violates Ebay's rules and there is a specific way to report it. I have reported the same seller multiple times since 2007 and there is absolutely no change. I wonder how many million transactions take place on ebay every month? They have no way to monitor the system, although they obviously wish you to think so. If a situation goes to some sort of resolution process, I assume that at least some cursory examination is given the situation, but not for the kind of violations and rude behavior that we have been discussing.
 
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