This is sort of a windy post but I'd like to give the folks who don't know me a little background.
Well, here I am with another forum to moderate. In keeping with my policy of basic honesty, I really was not crazy about doing another forum. The two I have on the other site keep me pretty busy and on top of that I get a lot of email to answer. And, I'm supposed to be retired!
So, why did I do it? I'll tell you.
Himalayan Imports has been in business 11 years and during that time we have developed a decent reputation. We sell the best khukuri being made in Nepal today and we unconditionally guarantee it for life. Customers tell us our customer service is second to none. But these kudos we receive are not free. We had to earn them and we worked very hard to develop the fine reputation we have. Now, here's the rub.
In the past month or two I have had folks copy pictures of the HI khukuris off our site and paste them on their own site and hold the HI khukuri up as their product. Over on Ebay there are people selling khukuris and listing the seller as Himalayan Imports. It is not us.
My theory is the best defense is a good offense so rather than attacking these people and trying to check every site on the net to see who is trying to pawn themselves off as Himalayan Imports it's better to go on the offense and tell as many people as I can reach who and what we are.
I realize that imitation is the sincerest form of compliment but imitation is one thing and impersonation and deception is quite another.
So, here we are, the REAL Himalayan Imports.
I'm Bill Martino, the general manager which means I sit at the screen and answer the phone. My wife, Yangdu, does everything else. The owner of HI is Kami Sherpa, Yangdu's dad. We make our khukuris down in SE Nepal at a shop with a dirt floor and no modern conveniences and they are the best being made in Nepal today.
As moderator of this forum all I ask is that we do not use profane language and that we do not make personal attacks. We can argue, discuss, disagree, spout or likes and dislikes until the cows come home if we follow only those two basic rules of conduct.
If you have not checked out our websites you might want to if you would like to know more about us and our khukuris. Here's the url:
http://members.aol.com/himimp/index.html
But the easy was is use Yahoo and search for khukuris or Himalayan Imports.
Questions, comments, welcome all. Since our khukuris are a product of history, culture, Gurkhas and religion the doors are wide open.
Bill Martino
HIMALAYAN IMPORTS (the real one!)
