Hello Tim,
It looks like you are very quick to judge.
Josh mentioned that there is a lot of anonymity in these forums, and he is absolutely right. So just so that everyone knows who greywolf27 (Tim) is talking about, it's me. I am grumpy_t and my name is Tony Llovet.
I have only been a member of this awesome forum since May of this year. It has been a wonderful experience so far. Everyone I have dealt with has been very helpful and I have met some great people (including Josh from REK).
So let me get back to the topic of this post.
Yesterday I saw a post for a Medford by greywolf27. He was asking for $350 for his Medford 187. There was no picture of the knife in the post, he just had a picture that he must have copied off the internet. When I check his feedback, I see that he has no feedback. Then I notice that he had joined the forum on Sunday 8-23-2015, the same day he posted the knife for sale.
I then sent him a PM asking if he could send me some pictures of the actual knife that he was selling. I received the pictures around 3:40 in the afternoon. I close my shop up at 4:00, so everyday from 3:30 to 4:00 I go through with my employees what they are going to do the next morning. After I was done I noticed his email and opened it up to see the pictures. He sent me 4 pictures of very bad quality when I opened them up they were all blurred. I was on my way out so I was going to email him when I got home and ask him for better pictures.
Well, when I got home my girls were waiting for me to go take them by school supplies and have dinner. I completely forgot about the knife. By the time they had gone to bed and I was able to relax it was about 10:00. I grabbed my iPad to check on my emails and noticed 2 more emails from Tim. One was at 4:57 and the other one at 5:42. On the last one he wrote " I have not heard so you changed your mind thanks for the offer ".
Maybe I misunderstood his perfectly written sentence ( I only graduated high school ), but it seemed to me that he was pissed off that I was not sitting by the computer answering his emails.
I had not changed my mind until I saw his email. Then I thought about for a minute and said to myself, this guy just joined a day ago, has no feedback, he lists a knife without pictures, he sends me crappy pictures and then he gets pissed off that I don't respond to him immediately. At this point is when I decided that it was in my best interest not to deal with Tim.
So on to this morning. I'm sitting at my desk after my coffee and I log onto the forum to see if there is anything new on here that "I must have". After looking around I go to my messages and I see my PMs to Tim from yesterday. I know I made mistakes and I'm still making mistakes as I get used to the forum. This is the first forum that I have ever joined. So I decided to email Tim and give him another shot. I tried to look for the Post for the Medford, just to read it once more before I emailed Tim. So I went back to my PMs found his user name then went on his profile, looked up his latest posts to find the one on the Medford ( like I said I'm new to forums and this is the only way I know how to do this ) and I discover this whole new Post dedicated to me.
I really do not write much on these posts, I just come on for a few minutes whenever I have a chance.
It's hard to find the time between running a business and coming home to my wonderful wife and 2 beautiful girls who always have something planned for us to do (it's called having a life Tim). But, I had to respond to this post.
Shit, it's about me.
I'm sorry for going on for so long, but I had to make the most of the first post ever written about me.
Tony Llovet
