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Obviously, paying for a new/mint knife and getting one that shows use is wrong, however, to echo what Will said:
Folks, there is only one, I repeat one high-end custom knife dealer who does not accept trades and only sells knives that come directly from the makers, and that is Neil Ostroff at True North Knives.
Every other custom knife dealer I am familiar with, at times, sells knives that were previously owned. Very few of them point it out, one dealer that comes to mind is Tom Lansing and Phillip Dos from Classic, as far as I can tell, they will usually tell you if something was preowned, saying something like: "pre-owned but excellent". But, again, the truth is, every major dealer I am familiar with, aside from TNK and Classic sells pre-owned knives and does not always point it out unless you ask, figuring that as long as it's mint and unused, it can be sold as new, usually, that works out fine, if they evaluate the knives properly, in some cases, for whatever reason, as happened here, it doesn't work so well, but don't single out Nordic though, if you decide to not do business with them because of it, you'll have to give up all the rest of the dealers too, Dave at Nordic strikes me as a prety honest guy, I have no doubt he will or would have refunded your $$$ in full, and probably refunded all shipping costs too if the knife was clearly used.
I think a lot of you would be surprised to find out how few of the knives dealers have on their websites actually came directly from the makers.
So, yes, buyer beware, but, also beware, it aint just Nordic doing this.
Folks, there is only one, I repeat one high-end custom knife dealer who does not accept trades and only sells knives that come directly from the makers, and that is Neil Ostroff at True North Knives.
Every other custom knife dealer I am familiar with, at times, sells knives that were previously owned. Very few of them point it out, one dealer that comes to mind is Tom Lansing and Phillip Dos from Classic, as far as I can tell, they will usually tell you if something was preowned, saying something like: "pre-owned but excellent". But, again, the truth is, every major dealer I am familiar with, aside from TNK and Classic sells pre-owned knives and does not always point it out unless you ask, figuring that as long as it's mint and unused, it can be sold as new, usually, that works out fine, if they evaluate the knives properly, in some cases, for whatever reason, as happened here, it doesn't work so well, but don't single out Nordic though, if you decide to not do business with them because of it, you'll have to give up all the rest of the dealers too, Dave at Nordic strikes me as a prety honest guy, I have no doubt he will or would have refunded your $$$ in full, and probably refunded all shipping costs too if the knife was clearly used.
I think a lot of you would be surprised to find out how few of the knives dealers have on their websites actually came directly from the makers.
So, yes, buyer beware, but, also beware, it aint just Nordic doing this.
And I also agree with Meg in that a lot of dealers sell pre owned stuff but at least they mark it as such. NotDos seems to be a straight shooter whenever I deal with him, he always told me if the item was pre owned or not.