Bad Survive! Deserves A Permanent Post In The Hall Of Shame

Only ordered one knife from them and got it in hand in a few months (GSO 4.5). Excellent workmanship on knife and sheath. Surprised to read so much negative stuff here. Will be aware for the future. I thought they were quite a good company, just very slow. Not good to have outstanding orders after a year...
S!K usually fills a few orders (like yours) so they can keep the con going. They have open orders from every year since 2015. AT LEAST 70% of the orders placed in 2022 are still outstanding. Think about that for a second. This is not a functional business. Sure, the few knives that are shipped are nice. However, they have never been able to fill orders in a timely manner and CONSTANTLY provide false information to customers.
 
If people stop preordering knives, and buy only what is in stock (if they dont send it within promised 10 days ask for money back emediately), then maybe they would crank up the production.
No. If people stopped pre-ordering knives, survive would have to find a new con to run. With no pre-order money, they wouldn't be able to live day to day (the whole purpose of a long con like this) or make the few knives the actually manage to send out. The pre-order is the initial investment of their ponzi-scheme.
 
New video blast...

Why bother finishing old blades when you can pump videos out and squeeze a few more suckers?

The comments are vomit inducing. Thousands of views and only 13 comments all praising Guy and his "standards".
 
New video blast...

Why bother finishing old blades when you can pump videos out and squeeze a few more suckers?

The comments are vomit inducing. Thousands of views and only 13 comments all praising Guy and his "standards".
S!K's YouTube comments are HEAVILY censored. FB is also censored, but not as consistently. The difference in the tone of the comments on the two different platforms is obvious.
 
case in point:

10/20/23 post on FB
Anthony K. says "Is it normal for your company to not fulfill orders going three years back and not refund the money when it’s been requested?! You stole $429 from me. Fuck survive knives."
 
I didn't get details but I heard on the CPK forum that they're moving back to Delta 3V? I don't follow S!'s nonsense regularly except when I'm morbidly curious, but that's a pretty wild turnaround for them.

I expect it'll result in more delays, if true.
 
They posted what looked like a no-bs video today "GSO 5.1 MunchAKunt Update".
"Ah excellent, he's gonna tell us he's gonna ship N 5.1s after months of side projects".

NO. Another frikking whine about Crucible. FFS.
 
whow, now they talk trash about magnacut, how it has inclusions.... omg, what BS! praising new bohler k890 or whaterver....
I think they just want to justify a batch of "factory seconds" magnacuts, and sell who knows how many perfectly good knives by "faulty" and preorders again will never be sent out. also maybe crucible cut them off from supplying cpm steels, so they had to turn to bohler and now hyping this new no name steel in knife world, which rusts like crazy btw.
 
I am really thinking they just double sell their knives because who has got one that was a pre-order and not a already made knife from them? I guess the first sell is just a loan the gets repaid when the "buyer" gives up and demands their refund.
 
Arrived to Bosnia


Great. You are one of those that got a knife. It is really nice that you took the time to come here and shill for Guy and Ellie.

For those that are thinking about S!K, remember that there are customers from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 waiting for knives. AT LEAST 70% of the orders placed in 2022 are still outstanding. Just today S!K deleted Facebook posts from 3 customers that cannot get a refund...

But you got your knife, so congratulations.
 
I was asked for a proof, so here it is. My advice on survive: don't do preorders (you will probably never get them), buy what is in stock, if you want S! knife, and if not sent within promised period (10-15 days) ask PAYPAL (dont pay with cards, dont ask survive for refund) for refund emediately after that period. I ordered my GSO4.5 that was in stock and ready to be shipped as described in text (read carefuly, soetimes they write they are waiting for sheats - dont buy that, wait when is truly ready. And they sent it the day after. I have 3 S! knives now, and 2 I never got but got refunds from paypal (after 6 months wait), so I was dumb then to make preorders, now I just buy what is in stock and ready for shipping. Their business model is realy shady and who knows what will they do next, but if you play smart, you get amazing quality knife I must say for a decent price. (I had much more exprensive Bark River knives that some of them were really screwd up, uneaven grinding etc... and here from Bosnia there is no return option for me. I dont like Carothers designs. I have many other cool knives such as White River Ursus45, Architect FB 6.5 and 5.5, Castroms, Fallknivens..... but I also love S! designs and ther perfect fit and finish which never disapointed me in that manner. Remeber, there is no return a product option to USA from Bossnia, so waranty doesnt mean anyting to me. I dont have nothing from Esee no question asked waranty, If I break an Esee, it will be lost knife for me, straigt to trash can. Shipping costs and customs procedures would be as expensive as buying another knife + waiting it takes 1 month for it to get back and 1 month to arrive to me again, in ideal case). But play at your own risk! :D
 
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I was asked for a proof, so here it is. My advice on survive: don't do preorders (you will probably never get them), buy what is in stock, if you want S! knife, and if not sent within promised period (10-15 days) ask PAYPAL (dont pay with cards, dont ask survive for refund) for refund emediately after that period. I ordered my GSO4.5 that was in stock and ready to be shipped as described in text (read carefuly, soetimes they write they are waiting for sheats - dont buy that, wait when is truly ready. And they sent it the day after. I have 3 S! knives now, and 2 I never got but got refunds from paypal (after 6 months wait), so I was dumb then to make preorders, now I just buy what is in stock and ready for shipping. Their business model is realy shady and who knows what will they do next, but if you play smart, you get amazing quality knife I must say for a decent price. (I had much more exprensive Bark River knives that some of them were really screwd up, uneaven grinding etc... and here from Bosnia there is no return option for me. I dont like Carothers designs. I have many other cool knives such as White River Ursus45, Architect FB 6.5 and 5.5, Castroms, Fallknivens..... but I also love S! designs and ther perfect fit and finish which never disapointed me in that manner. Remeber, there is no return a product option to USA from Bossnia, so waranty doesnt mean anyting to me. I dont have nothing from Esee no question asked waranty, If I break an Esee, it will be lost knife for me, straigt to trash can. Shipping costs and customs procedures would be as expensive as buying another knife + waiting it takes 1 month for it to get back and 1 month to arrive to me again, in ideal case). But play at your own risk! :D
NO. Please don't encourage people to risk being scammed or to give money to this shady company. Just Say No!
 
I said myself that they are shady and warned people not to buy preorders. Its a free country I can speak openly about my expiriences, everything I sayd is from my own expirience. I got screwed for 2 knives as well, but managed to get a refund. And I will probably buy again if something nice comes in stock too :D
 
How about just don’t order anything from S!K, and give your business and hard-earned money to one of the many, many other quality and reputable makers out there. Why take the chance, knowing it’s a crap shoot? And WHY give your business to thieves?????
 
I said myself that they are shady and warned people not to buy preorders. Its a free country I can speak openly about my expiriences, everything I sayd is from my own expirience. I got screwed for 2 knives as well, but managed to get a refund. And I will probably buy again if something nice comes in stock too :D
Every thief has an apologist. That’s all you are.
 
In Guy's most recent videos on YT he is basically saying "it is the steels fault." I am not kidding. He is now claiming that the reason he cannot build the knives (to his quality standards) is because of the steel...

He must really be getting desperate.
 
In Guy's most recent videos on YT he is basically saying "it is the steels fault." I am not kidding. He is now claiming that the reason he cannot build the knives (to his quality standards) is because of the steel...

He must really be getting desperate.
I saw that, I just SMH at this point.
 
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