Whoa! Back the truck up there Spada!
First- I do owe you an apology- and a big one at that. My apologies also to Mr. Duane McCord, as well as to Jerome Krueger. Through a set of rather ridiculous f*!@ ups on my part- you have not received the knives as promised. (I will do my best to e-mail each one of you individually, however, my e-mail service is acting funky as of this evening)
All of the above mentioned parties were to have received knives from me. However, as I was extremely busy with work and continue to be- I asked my wife to take care of packaging up the knives and sending them out. And I was late in doing even that, I admit. Believe it or not, I'm usually very prompt. So, a week and a half ago or so, I get the call that I'm going to Argentina and off I go. While I was there, I phoned my wife at work to let her know I was still alive, and asked if she'd gotten to the post office yet. She said she would that morning- as she is a nurse and is working third shift. Ok, fine I thought.
Jump ahead to this afternoon, when I get home. I'm on the phone with some colleagues going through a debriefing of the trip when my call waiting beeps through. I click over and some one identifying themselves as Gary Graley is telling me some guy named Stada is calling me out on the forums. Quite surprised, I check my e-mail, which shows all kinds of messages- although I can't open them yet. (I'm sure they're full of kind words though) I knew something must be up, so I call my wife at work and ask if she did in fact get to the P.O. There was a pause then an expletive. So as of right now, this very instant- they are sitting in the trunk of my wife's 1996 Ford Contour.(it's blue, anyone want the license plate number? Might go nicely with my phone number...)
Yes, I realize you still don't have your knife Dave, but you will shortly. I'm sorry- really- I know I'm the one who made the mistake but I cannot change what has happened. It was my responsibility to make sure you got the knife as well as these other two guys- both of which were counting on me with even more money at stake. I regret my carelessness in this matter and again I must apologize.
I have made deals here on the forums since October of 1998, and have always felt those transactions went well. It is my fear that this incident will sour other's tastes for doing business with me. However, if it does then I am certainly mature enough to sleep in the bed I've made.
I will run to the P.O. sometime between 8 and 9 am tomorrow morning and will make sure all the knives go out. I will also assign delivery confirmation numbers to them and will contact you with those numbers. If I cannot e-mail them to you, then I will post them here.
My thanks to Mark and Ferret for speaking up for me in my absence, as well as to Gary Graley, who seems to have good intentions- although I'm still a bit urked he contacted me like that. Gary- I understand and can appreciate your efforts, I just hope you are not being overzealous with any of my personal information you may have.
It is my sincere hope that this response will at least in some small way put to rest the notion that I am some troll out to schill folks out of their money. My sincerest apologies once again- if I had a tail it would surely be between my legs.
Oh, and Ferret- your Goddard Jr. is in fact in transit- I hope you'll see it shortly.
My thanks for your time and patience-
Scott
