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Hello all knife collectors --
I really need to find this person!!!!!!
I had a some fair trades with Marco Elinzondo. He became a friend, sending e-mails, calling me with info I was searching for, acting like a good guy, a fellow collector. When someone tells me they are a knife collector, I tend to think a little more of them, I still do, as this has been the only thief I've run into in many, many years of collecting. Over all some of the best people I've ever met have been fellow collectors....but not Marco Elinzondo.
Then this happened -- he wanted one of the great knives he sold me back, but would make it worth my while. If I sent him the RJ Martin Handiman I had bought from him, AND $200, he would send me a great replacement knife I would like as much if not more than the RJ Martin and an BNIB Swiss Army Knife Chronograph. He said he had worn the watch once or twice, but it looked brand new. After all, we had done a few deals already and they had gone well, right? and it was his knife he wanted back. I tried to get him to tell me what knife I'd be getting, but he said he still had to decide by looking through what he had on hand. Hey, we were friends at this point -- I could trust him. This is just one more of what will be many, many more deals for years to come.........right?
So I fell for the scam -- sent him off the RJ Martin and the money. It was a relationship we had built up over several months. It was one where we treated each other as friends, fellow collectors.
I have never heard from him again. If anyone out there knows this low life, PLEASE let me know so I can hunt him down and have a little "talk" with him. I wonder if he knows how angry a person gets when they are cheated by someone they thought was a friend? Plus the RJ Martin was a GREAT knife to carry.
If anyone out there has ever had something like this happen to them, they know why I need to find Marco. Last I heard he was working as a dental hygienist in California. I'll take any info about him I can get.
Scott
sbieg@aol.com
I really need to find this person!!!!!!
I had a some fair trades with Marco Elinzondo. He became a friend, sending e-mails, calling me with info I was searching for, acting like a good guy, a fellow collector. When someone tells me they are a knife collector, I tend to think a little more of them, I still do, as this has been the only thief I've run into in many, many years of collecting. Over all some of the best people I've ever met have been fellow collectors....but not Marco Elinzondo.
Then this happened -- he wanted one of the great knives he sold me back, but would make it worth my while. If I sent him the RJ Martin Handiman I had bought from him, AND $200, he would send me a great replacement knife I would like as much if not more than the RJ Martin and an BNIB Swiss Army Knife Chronograph. He said he had worn the watch once or twice, but it looked brand new. After all, we had done a few deals already and they had gone well, right? and it was his knife he wanted back. I tried to get him to tell me what knife I'd be getting, but he said he still had to decide by looking through what he had on hand. Hey, we were friends at this point -- I could trust him. This is just one more of what will be many, many more deals for years to come.........right?
So I fell for the scam -- sent him off the RJ Martin and the money. It was a relationship we had built up over several months. It was one where we treated each other as friends, fellow collectors.
I have never heard from him again. If anyone out there knows this low life, PLEASE let me know so I can hunt him down and have a little "talk" with him. I wonder if he knows how angry a person gets when they are cheated by someone they thought was a friend? Plus the RJ Martin was a GREAT knife to carry.
If anyone out there has ever had something like this happen to them, they know why I need to find Marco. Last I heard he was working as a dental hygienist in California. I'll take any info about him I can get.
Scott
sbieg@aol.com
