This is a clear cut case guys.... buyer assumed ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISKS of the transaction. The only reason sellers even say this is to open up the knife market to people outside CONUS because this is a knife community and so if anything is doing the BUYERS of a foreign country a FAVOR. Meaning, if I lived somewhere outside of the CONUS but am not able to purchase the knives I dearly want like a CRK, Strider, custom knives whatever; Im sure it would suck ass. for me.
Lets be honest, everyone here knows about Russias shady customs, but we still see Russian people in Russia owning USA made knives. Many, in fact. But we also do hear horror storys, and Im pretty sure the buyers in Russia knows them all too well.
Heres the important part that I see many of the people defending the buyer here is trying to make.... you guys say its the Sellers responsibility to refund or make things right because the Seller THINKS the knife wont make it there so he shouldnt have sent it out in the first place and as such needs to make things right....
Gentleman, its Russia..... I am pretty confident that everyone here worrys and avoid Russia or foreign countrys in general and keeps their buy/sell/trade CONUS.
But just like every individual we cant really tell any person how to spend their hard earned money, its their money. That person came to terms with his or herself and purchased a knife KNOWING the risks of international shipping AND going through CUSTOMS(!!).
Maybe you accepted these sort of terms all the time or for whatever in fact because it never has happened to you before so if it happens now its the other persons fault... This is what it looks like to me and also looks like he got burned for the first time. He insured and even tried to claim it (although denied..), what more could you ask from the seller?
It is and always should be to the Buyers knowledge of his or her own knife laws in his or her own origin.
I.E I own some automatic knives, but ofcourse these are not allowed in many states in the CONUS. And even if they are allowed, some countys laws prohibit even that.
To everyone that sells a knife to an individual on this forum; Do you go do research about the state and local laws of the destination where the knife is heading to? Because I sure as hell never did. The only important thing for me to do was to leave a tracking number.
My 0.02
Lets be honest, everyone here knows about Russias shady customs, but we still see Russian people in Russia owning USA made knives. Many, in fact. But we also do hear horror storys, and Im pretty sure the buyers in Russia knows them all too well.
Heres the important part that I see many of the people defending the buyer here is trying to make.... you guys say its the Sellers responsibility to refund or make things right because the Seller THINKS the knife wont make it there so he shouldnt have sent it out in the first place and as such needs to make things right....
Gentleman, its Russia..... I am pretty confident that everyone here worrys and avoid Russia or foreign countrys in general and keeps their buy/sell/trade CONUS.
But just like every individual we cant really tell any person how to spend their hard earned money, its their money. That person came to terms with his or herself and purchased a knife KNOWING the risks of international shipping AND going through CUSTOMS(!!).
Maybe you accepted these sort of terms all the time or for whatever in fact because it never has happened to you before so if it happens now its the other persons fault... This is what it looks like to me and also looks like he got burned for the first time. He insured and even tried to claim it (although denied..), what more could you ask from the seller?
It is and always should be to the Buyers knowledge of his or her own knife laws in his or her own origin.
I.E I own some automatic knives, but ofcourse these are not allowed in many states in the CONUS. And even if they are allowed, some countys laws prohibit even that.
To everyone that sells a knife to an individual on this forum; Do you go do research about the state and local laws of the destination where the knife is heading to? Because I sure as hell never did. The only important thing for me to do was to leave a tracking number.
My 0.02
