People who are too quick to scream bloody murder

Kelly, I didnt mean, or try to imply that you should whine after 1 whole day, or even 2 or 3 for that matter. And I also agree that you should give a reasonable amount of time for an email to be answered. You should make all reasonable attempts to establish contact. What I was trying to get across was about the folks who dont respond to emails for a month, whose phones are disconnected and seemingly avoid any type of contact. Thats what I mean.

As far as the recent post about knife outlet, there is no argument from me. The guy who posted that (TODD1, no relation to me ) acted wrong, and had NO basis for his whining.

Hopefully I have made myself more clear on this.



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My .02 worth. We all make mistakes. I believed Bob would be fair on the deal, I thought he would be trying to get a positive reputation back. Through my mistakes and Bob's, it didn't work that way. Live and LEARN. I wish it wouldn't have gone public in the first place, but when it did I should have left it alone, and not responded in anger. Bob and I have worked out our differences, so if we can, pretty much any dispute can be resolved. Will I deal with Bob again, probably not. Will he deal with me? Probably not. But there is at least some amount of mutual respect built between us AFTER the screaming and shouting was done, and reasonable talk began. Now if the reasonable talk would have came before the screaming....

Back to the subject, yes, bloody murder was screamed, and the person was very much alive. We need to give situations time to work themselves out. I hope my and Bob's experience helps out at least ONE knife knut from finding themselves in the same sad situation.

Greg
 
I think this thread has pretty much run it's course.

If we all think of this place a a kind of "club", that we are all members of, we will then try not to go off too quickly on other members.

But...by all means..if somebody is messin' with us, we should tell it like it is. Brand them as rip-offs if need be. But ONLY after ALL avenues have been exhausted. Run a search on their name. If you see good things about them, give them some more time to reply or work it out.

I agree that it is good to see people come to the aid of "good guys", but it really shouldn't have to be done if there is good communication both before and after the deal. I usually send mail to make the deal. When the money or knife is sent. When I get the money or knife. After I have looked over the knife and am either satisfied or not with it.

It irks the crap out of me not to hear anything from someone I sent a knife to, even though I track it and see that he signed for it. Common courtesy would require at least a "Got the knife. Thanks."

We are all friends here.

Sorry to be so long winded.
Rog


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[This message has been edited by rdnzl (edited 02-16-2001).]
 
Greg - The situations I described above were not referring to yours and Bob's situation, although Bob certainly seems to have had more than his share of bad experiences with BF members. I was referring to a couple of other situations recently that resulted in "ugly" posts in this forum. In each of those cases the posts should not have been made in the first place.

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Rightous! FNG is trying his best to piss everyone right off! Me, the Reeves, where will it end?

Cool heads and calm thinking are best.

To many jump on a bandwagon to attack others. Just because it is not face to face does not give anyone the right to attack others. Sign of a weak person.

Respect and best wishes

W.A.

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