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Markisbear
good morning. I have that little kitchen utility knife pictured in the other post packaged and ready to go. Hope you get it by Saturday or Monday the latest!
And I do believe our contrite but also good intentioned
mycough
is going to get something out to you as well!
And fellas, I know its tough, you get a bunch of bulls in a room...In our heydays, amongst friends, we would be drunken...arguing and swearing and pummeling each other if we had a spat, that is until we hugged it out like nothing ever happend.
That's how men have always done it. But unfortunately our hey days are probably long past, but we still got the fight of the old days in us. And what's been happening lately is sometimes the end result of disagreements. A bit of forum bickering. It's all right to carry on and move forward. It's just the internet and it ain't no thing....you know what I mean as we have no opportunity to pummel one another and hug it out after.
I think everyone has a strong opinion about helping one another out versus sometimes or maybe often lately some inequity and perceived quality of the items that are put up for what is taken. This is at the end of the day — a knife forum so 1 for 1 knife offering or a 2 for 1 knife offering is fine by me. A watch, a tactical pen, something kinda forum related. And if that isn't grabbed it should be swapped out. Which I've said before.
Now whether or not this is because of the means of a person is limited or that they're just plain taking advantage to trade up for something is going to end up a personal moral dilemna, maybe not for that person but for others and especially for the person giving a nife pif.
There's going to be plenty of folks up here on the forum who just live by their means and if I/they can't get a knife over and beyond their means I/they live happily forward and participate on this thread just like that.
But that's not everyone and not everyone feels the same about this even now that we air the issue out, its not going to change how folks roll or what someone wants to agree to on a pif if they're feeling giving it's totally up to them. Because I don't want to be the guy that says hey your stuff has been sitting for X time don't you think you should swap it out. We're all adults.
Besides tasting bitter, the only other consequence is it messes up the opportunity for the next person to get a cool PIF in line with the 1:1 pif that the person with the bundle took. This slows down the PIF thread considerably and again I hope you can see the rationale of perhaps what that means in some ways. It comes off as unthoughtful to the folks who have participated on this thread and who have given nice pif's versus junk.
But that fact doesn't change the nice thing that the person giving a nice pif has done and that the other person in that deal got a cool knife that they may not have otherwise been able to get. Unless that is, they're taking advantage of the situation which is hard to call out with certainty.
I know that I can only carry on the way that I do and everyone else the way that they operate as we're all in different life situations. For the folks who aren't openly putting up a strong opinion about this sorry about all of this.