Tl;DR: InsurgentNarhwal (Jared) misrepresented a knife, refused to communicate, lied to paypal, lost, and is now trying to defraud paypal. Stay away.
I rarely know how to start these so I will just launch right into the series of events and back fill as needed.
InsurgentNarhwal listed a 4" Curtiss F3 for sale here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1125662-Fellhoelter-Curtiss-USN-F3-Schoop-MT-Matrix
The description was (redacted to only include the Curtiss):
On 11/12, I posted an I will take it. I paid and, although I had to prod him to send me the tracking number, received the knife without incident on 11/14.
When I got the knife I was extremely disappointed. There was tons of play in the knife (both side to side and up/down) also the knife was so dirty that the standard cutout that Curtiss puts in for the detent looked choppy and irregular (I can provide pics if needed.)
I contacted InsurgentNarhwal and let him know. The response I got from him is below:
I left him know that this is not what was described, that I would try and clean the knife but, at the time, I was not happy or accepting the sale.
I cleaned the knife thoroughly and tried to the lock up again. It improved but there was still issues (e.g. it still would not lock up correctly, there was obvious slippage of the lock bar, etc.)
I contact Narhwal and let him know that I did not see many ways to resolve the problem. I offered to send the knife back or to send it to Curtiss for servicing. As I read thru the older PM's I realized that there was no reason to jump thru hoops for a guy who's, at best, careless in his descriptions and in his dealings here. I asked for a refund on 11/16. There was no response from Jared at all after this point.
I tried to contact him again a few times but got absolutely no response. Ultimately, I took the case to PP dispute.
Rather then communicating it thru PP Jared accused me of "wanting a new knife" and escalated the claim for PP attention. Needless to say, this did not turn out in his favor (e.g. all of the correspondence, photos, video I took, and forum listing were not to his benefit.)
PP requested I return the knife and provide shipping. I did this and, upon the delivery of the knife, they refunded my money on 12/3. I was happy to leave the matter there as I had been refunded and, in effect, all had been made whole (aside from $12 for shipping which I was willing to write off.)
That was, until last night. I log into PP and notice that there is some sort of issue. It was too late to call them so I called this morning. Apparently, Jared is now claiming I broke his knife while cleaning it. He's claiming that the pivot screw was scratched and assorted other non-sense. This is obviously in-congruent with his initial posting (e.g. used knife and wear on screws, etc.)
Given the depths that Jared has sunk to and given the sheer level of dishonesty, I felt it necessary to make this post. As I was made whole, I do not believe Itrader was warranted but GBU is a good place to post this up. Since PP appeals cannot impact the buyer I am more or less indifferent on this latest twist but I did offer to give PP any and all evidence they might need to fight this on their end.
I rarely know how to start these so I will just launch right into the series of events and back fill as needed.
InsurgentNarhwal listed a 4" Curtiss F3 for sale here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1125662-Fellhoelter-Curtiss-USN-F3-Schoop-MT-Matrix
The description was (redacted to only include the Curtiss):
On 11/12, I posted an I will take it. I paid and, although I had to prod him to send me the tracking number, received the knife without incident on 11/14.
When I got the knife I was extremely disappointed. There was tons of play in the knife (both side to side and up/down) also the knife was so dirty that the standard cutout that Curtiss puts in for the detent looked choppy and irregular (I can provide pics if needed.)
I contacted InsurgentNarhwal and let him know. The response I got from him is below:
InsurgentNarhwal said:
I left him know that this is not what was described, that I would try and clean the knife but, at the time, I was not happy or accepting the sale.
I cleaned the knife thoroughly and tried to the lock up again. It improved but there was still issues (e.g. it still would not lock up correctly, there was obvious slippage of the lock bar, etc.)
I contact Narhwal and let him know that I did not see many ways to resolve the problem. I offered to send the knife back or to send it to Curtiss for servicing. As I read thru the older PM's I realized that there was no reason to jump thru hoops for a guy who's, at best, careless in his descriptions and in his dealings here. I asked for a refund on 11/16. There was no response from Jared at all after this point.
I tried to contact him again a few times but got absolutely no response. Ultimately, I took the case to PP dispute.
Rather then communicating it thru PP Jared accused me of "wanting a new knife" and escalated the claim for PP attention. Needless to say, this did not turn out in his favor (e.g. all of the correspondence, photos, video I took, and forum listing were not to his benefit.)
PP requested I return the knife and provide shipping. I did this and, upon the delivery of the knife, they refunded my money on 12/3. I was happy to leave the matter there as I had been refunded and, in effect, all had been made whole (aside from $12 for shipping which I was willing to write off.)
That was, until last night. I log into PP and notice that there is some sort of issue. It was too late to call them so I called this morning. Apparently, Jared is now claiming I broke his knife while cleaning it. He's claiming that the pivot screw was scratched and assorted other non-sense. This is obviously in-congruent with his initial posting (e.g. used knife and wear on screws, etc.)
Given the depths that Jared has sunk to and given the sheer level of dishonesty, I felt it necessary to make this post. As I was made whole, I do not believe Itrader was warranted but GBU is a good place to post this up. Since PP appeals cannot impact the buyer I am more or less indifferent on this latest twist but I did offer to give PP any and all evidence they might need to fight this on their end.
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