Gentlemen, I removed these posts from RecalcitrantAmerican's sales thread. The knife sold in 2 hours, and all this discussion took place after that. Not cool. Any commentary for better or for worse belongs in FEEDBACK, not in the sale thread itself.
This is a violation we routinely hand out warnings for "interfering with an Exchange thread" but in this case I will let you thrash it out here if you like. Personally, I will completely understand if Recalcitrant American has nothing further to add.