Interesting What You Sometimes Find On E-Bay...

Drdan

Drdan

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I don't feel that it is ethical for some companies to capitalize (pun intended) on Himalayan Import's well deserved reputation. Read the following offering's text, and you tell me if you feel that the khukuri featured below 'Bill Martino' is the next best thing to an HI product... ;) Looks like they even took the Ying/Yang symbol off of Yvsa's YCS, and their khukuri is a bling bling tourist model at that. :rolleyes:

Dan :confused:
 
Originally posted by Josh Feltman
Isn't that text ripped off from the HI website?
--Josh
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Sure looks like it to me, Josh. It's definitely O.K. to mention Himalayan Imports as having the best khukuris in the world, since that's truth in advertising! :rolleyes: To use what is probably in part another company's text to sell your own products, implying to the unaware purchaser that you're on the same level is false advertising and unethical behavior. Yvsa is going to be pi$$ed off when he sees that Ying/Yang symbol! :o :D

Dan :)
 
Originally posted by Drdan
Yvsa is going to be pi$$ed off when he sees that Ying/Yang symbol!

Dan :)
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Naw, the symbol is older than the Himalayans. It does however piss me off to see the HI Website used to promote their own shoddy goods.:mad:
 
If I didn't know any better I would've thought that Bill Martino was the name of the guy passing it off. The lack of ethics a person can see on any given day kinda surprises me.
 
Should we diplomatically inform the poster of his blunder, or do so in a more vociferous manner? I agree with Don Rac; I thought it was somehow either an authorized HI offering, or endorsed by HI, until I read the text in its entirety. I don't like this nonsense at all. :(

Dan
 
Poor Uncle. His name gets mentioned by some unscrupulous people. Guess it's just that his reputation is so good that it will sell anything. Too bad for the buyer of this tourist model. He probably won't care much about Uncle Bill after he gets this khuk. Should have bought the real HI! Too bad there is so little truth in advertising anymore. A world full of liars. Tsk,tsk.
Glad for the people like Uncle Bill. Need more of them.:)
 
This sort of stuff probably happens all the time, throughout the world...and Bill Martino smiles...thinks "well...there you go," and doesn't fret about it at all.

Meanwhile, the Cantina members are arming themselves, sending out scouts, blackening faces, and practicing moves on the rope-wrapped boards in the training room.:)





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Yes Steve, yes I am. Frankly, it's a burden.:rolleyes:

However, for your edification, see number 6:

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