I am using common sense. You have a knife forum, new manufacturers in countries outside the USA are manufacturing knives, copying popular premium grade knives, then selling them on the internet, ebay, AliExpress and other websites. I'm still not sure how they can post an ad on ebay with the words "Chris Reeve Sebenza Style knife" or similar wording and not get pulled down. You are not supposed to use the manufacturer names of other companies to help sell your product. It could be the large number of ads that ebay hosts and some just go unnoticed. Either that or ebay is allowing it. Do a search on ebay for completed items using Chris Reeve Sebenza, rank them lowest price first and you'll start seeing the counterfeit copies. What happens if you remove the trademark logo and the manufacturers name on ebay? Do they allow you to sell them? It then takes you back to the legal issue. What does the knife manufacturer own in regards to their knives, what is legal or illegal for another manufacturer to make?
Blade Forums tells me not to discuss certain knives, ie counterfeit. How am I suppose to know what is ok or not ok to discuss here? How about the knives that don't have the trademark logo, manufacturers name, etc. Are they legal or illegal to import, sell, possess etc in the USA? How much does a knife have to change in shape before it is legal to reproduce? It varies from country to country, and maybe state to state in the US. I don't know. That's why I asked in this forum and my posting was pulled down and hidden so nobody can see it. What happens when the next person comes along and does the same thing I did, ie inquire about what is legal/illegal, what can/can't be discussed etc?
That's why I just now in this thread suggested a forum for this topic. And yes, there could/would be rules/policies just like any other forum to operate properly otherwise you have chaos. Post on topic, comment on topic, don't post personal information about others, don't bully, don't name call, use clean language, no fraud, no scams etc.
This is not my forum, I can't make the changes, so all I can do is suggest. If the administration doesn't want to do it, I accept it and try to follow the rules, which are vague to start with, so it seems to go around in circles and starts up again later.
That's why I suggested a legal forum. A place to go and discuss the legal issues of knives and their manufacturing, without censorship, without being removed, free to discuss without fear of name calling, etc, you know, the same reason why the US broke away from the UK a few hundred years ago. It's called Freedom.
Why not try to employ some common sense instead? We've already been through this already, many, many times. I don't believe you are as ignorant as you are trying to make yourself out to be, not if you can somehow find your way onto the internet, register, and post in a forum. After all, where is your thread in the
Chris Reeve section that you rallied so hard for? What you want is basically a "forum" with no rules or moderation of any kind, that is called Reddit. Knock yourself out. Putting a cat in an over doesn't make it a biscuit.
