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Misanthropia

Misanthropia

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To all of those who have knives with Ryan and don't follow him on Instagram, he posted this yesterday:

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I got in touch with Ryan via text about my knife and apparently he has been sick the last few weeks, which is why he is behind on the pimp jobs. Furthermore, his email appears to be having issues so if you have emailed him recently, I suggest you text him instead to check on your knife. I was assured mine was going to be done this week.

Edit: Ryan has been banned, so it's a matter of damage control now.
 
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Im glad to see someone got a hold of him I havent heard from him in over a month and hes had my knife for 5 now so ill try texting that number thanks for the heads up.
 
Shame some of these people can't be bothered to send an email to their customers, rather than being tracked down on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, whatever...
 
Still zero word from Ryan despite his promise to get my knives done two weeks ago. He has since removed the picture from instragram where he apologized and implored people to contact him. He still has not been on here since July.

At this point, I'm sick of excuses. Any updates mods?
 
I've not heard anything. Time for this guy to bounce, his account has been permanently banned.
If he is going to playing around on Instagram and whatever else all day, he has plenty of time to either return property or issue refunds. There is no excuse for this garbage business ethic. Although some of the responsibility falls on the consumer as well. You have to do your homework and be responsible for your own purchases. What does this mean exactly .
1. Do your homework BEFORE paying anyone to do work for you. Do they have a trail of happy customers . Do they resolve discrepancies on a timely basis?
2. Do they hang out on the forums? From what I have noticed, and it might be be a coincidence, good makers that have integrity and value their reputation, and are mature enough to live with accountability are usually never far away.
3. Balance out ypur expectations with reality, the closer they are the better. A new maker that comes on here deserves a chance to prove themselves, but that entails knowing their own limits. The difference between what you can do and cannot do.
4. Do not ever pay money and leave yourself with no recourse for a refund. When you are satisfied with work, say so. Keeping it a secret does not help anyone.
 
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RevDevil said:
I've not heard anything. Time for this guy to bounce, his account has been permanently banned.
If he is going to playing around on Instagram and whatever else all day, he has plenty of time to either return property or issue refunds. There is no excuse for this garbage business ethic. Although some of the responsibility falls on the consumer as well. You have to do your homework and be responsible for your own purchases. What does this mean exactly .
1. Do your homework BEFORE paying anyone to do work for you. Do they have a trail of happy customers . Do they resolve discrepancies on a timely basis?
2. Do they hang out on the forums? From what I have noticed, and it might be be a coincidence, good makers that have integrity and value their reputation, and are mature enough to live with accountability are usually never far away.
3. Balance out ypur expectations with reality, the closer they are the better. A new maker that comes on here deserves a chance to prove themselves, but that entails knowing their own limits. The difference between what you can do and cannot do.
4. Do not ever pay money and leave yourself with no recourse for a refund. When you are satisfied with work, say so. Keeping it a secret does not help anyone.
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Thanks Rev, I appreciate what you've done here. There's no excuse for him not producing a single piece of work in a three month period, especially when he lists himself as a "full time knife modifier". Hopefully this ban means something to him, I texted him earlier today with no response yet.

In the defense of the consumers here, I believe many of us sent our knives to him before he developed the reputation he has now. I, for one, only started to see negative threads crop up well after I had sent my knives. Knowing what I do now, I'm going to be very hesitant about sending anything off to be modified in the future.
 
I keep getting empty promises from him although I did finally get a pic of my scale on Monday unfinished, broke the first one apparently but at least I have seen it. 6 months as of Tuesday to make 1 scale and 1 back spacer for a small knife. This was my first experience with customizing a knife and so far it hasn't been enjoyable but totally frustrating. I talked to him through text last night as he told me he would keep me updated with my scale as he worked last night and today haven't heard anything today at all.

Everything I read before sending my knife in June was positive, I couldn't find anything bad. shortly after sending my knife he posted that he had family issues so there would be a delay of up to a month which has now turned into 6. I definitely will be asking if they have the same knife I want custom scales for now so they can fit it to their own knife and send the scale out.
 
Some of these pimpers really are sad excuses for business men.
"family issues" = a one-six month delay? Really?
Anyone with any integrity would immediately return their customers' property at that point.
 
crowmagnon said:
Some of these pimpers really are sad excuses for business men.
"family issues" = a one-six month delay? Really?
Anyone with any integrity would immediately return their customers' property at that point.
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Unfortunately I must agree with you, when people endeavor to make this their full time job, they really should treat it like a real job. That means not taking months off without informing their customers, not working on their own personal knives or working on local friend's knives before customers, and generally keeping in contact with their customers. Essentially what we're seeing is a bunch of people who are talented at modifying knives thrust into the role of a small business manager, something many of which were unqualified to be doing in the first place.

As for my knives, Ryan claims via text that he has the flipper mod and one scale done on my Kwaiken. I pressed him for a picture, but he has not sent me one yet. In the same message he said he would be getting more G10 in soon and it would be done ASAP. I have little confidence in that promise at this point.
 
I have been texting him everyday and ony get replies every few days with him apologizing it took so long to reply. And he seems to ignore my requests for pics, I have only recieved 1 pic in 6 months and it was a week ago. He has claimed that he has had to redo mine completely 3 times now as he found a wiggle in the bolster on the first and dropped and broke the second. Whether its true or not I have no way of knowing. Its amazing how its taking over 6 months to make 1 scale and 1 back spacer that are both flat yet I order 2 scales for a benchmade from Keyman in october and already have them installed as of the start of December. I am beyond frustrated.
 
Blade-fiend said:
I have been texting him everyday and ony get replies every few days with him apologizing it took so long to reply. And he seems to ignore my requests for pics, I have only recieved 1 pic in 6 months and it was a week ago. He has claimed that he has had to redo mine completely 3 times now as he found a wiggle in the bolster on the first and dropped and broke the second. Whether its true or not I have no way of knowing. Its amazing how its taking over 6 months to make 1 scale and 1 back spacer that are both flat yet I order 2 scales for a benchmade from Keyman in october and already have them installed as of the start of December. I am beyond frustrated.
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I honestly just want him to send my knives back, but I'm guessing he doesn't even have the first knife I traded for work on the second anymore. I don't even know what we can do anymore since he's already been banned over here and that seems to make no difference to him.
 
Funny, Last summer I sent him a knife to have him make me up some scales. I was promised a four week turnaround and it ended up being about four months. I heard the "I was sick for 2-3 weeks" story then it became, "my parts supplier keeps sending me the wrong stuff". It was a frustrating process, especially saying I spent a decent amount of money on the scales but more because somebody else had my expensive, custom design blade. In the end I have been happy with the work he has done.
 
jeremy1517 said:
Funny, Last summer I sent him a knife to have him make me up some scales. I was promised a four week turnaround and it ended up being about four months. I heard the "I was sick for 2-3 weeks" story then it became, "my parts supplier keeps sending me the wrong stuff". It was a frustrating process, especially saying I spent a decent amount of money on the scales but more because somebody else had my expensive, custom design blade. In the end I have been happy with the work he has done.
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I've seen his work and I don't doubt the quality, I just wish he could actually get it done! Again, it comes down to people not treating this like a proper business. If you have a full time job and you're sick, you can take a few sick days at most. You can't call out of work for three weeks when you have a cold and expect their not be consequences. If he genuinely has some serious health problems, then I totally understand; except he never said anything of the like to me. When you have a real job, "personal stuff" does not mean you can take a few months off from work.
 
I got new pics today so atleast I can see progress has been made but again no shipping date. He said he should be able to finish it today once the epoxy dries hopefully this stays true.

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I haven't been able to get so much as a picture, three weeks after the last time I spoke with him. I'm sort of at my wits end here, I'm not sure what recourse I have at this point. I asked him to just mail my knives back, which he avoided agreeing to by saying he's working on my knife. He's been banned here and I've let the mods know on the USN so he can't do business there either.

Any ideas?
 
Misanthropia said:
I haven't been able to get so much as a picture, three weeks after the last time I spoke with him. I'm sort of at my wits end here, I'm not sure what recourse I have at this point. I asked him to just mail my knives back, which he avoided agreeing to by saying he's working on my knife. He's been banned here and I've let the mods know on the USN so he can't do business there either.

Any ideas?
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Yes, instruct him to cease and desist any and all work on your property and to return it to you, period.
 
I haven't received any replies from him in over a week now and last time I did I got a pic of my knife reassembled but still no word on when its shipping out or anything. I just keep texting him every other day in hopes I get a reply soon, not much else I can do at this point since I have seen mine pretty much completed. Just keep at him.
 
RevDevil said:
Yes, instruct him to cease and desist any and all work on your property and to return it to you, period.
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I've said that exact thing in two different text messages now. I even said it after he said he was halfway through finishing the Kwaiken, but to no avail. Unfortunately it seems as though I have no bargaining chips left because his reputation is effectively ruined in the knife community, which apparently is not a powerful enough motivator for him. At least he appears to be responding to Blade-fiend so there's hope in that.
 
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