SimplyMinded
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Bad Survive! Deserves A Permanent Post In The Hall Of Shame
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Only by those who lack a moral compass such as yourself.
That post was moved offline because it had nothing to do with SK! business practices which is predominantly the topic of this thread.
You were doing a review of your new GSO, that should have been posted here.
Knife Reviews & Testing
The place to come for actual first hand information on specific knives and how they perform. Your own personal Consumer Reports of Knives.www.bladeforums.com
And just for reference, here's your picture of the minor chipping you were talking about.
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LOL "Minor". Guy makes knives of the same quality as his business acumen, and this genius bought four of 'em. Who's having the real laugh here, amirite?
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............I had not seen one of Guy's YouTube videos saying they were making serrated models now....kewl...where do I pre-order ?Only by those who lack a moral compass such as yourself.
That post was moved offline because it had nothing to do with SK! business practices which is predominantly the topic of this thread.
You were doing a review of your new GSO, that should have been posted here.
Knife Reviews & Testing
The place to come for actual first hand information on specific knives and how they perform. Your own personal Consumer Reports of Knives.
And just for reference, here's your picture of the minor chipping you were talking about.
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If anyone was excitedly hoping to reload the S!K webpage and see the 2015 orders fulfilled, don't bother. S!K is now 9 years behind in their orders.
When you tell on you tell on yourself in the name of transparency, the general idea is that you're also transparent about how you're fixing the problem. S!K is just telling on themselves.
And people are still purchasing knives from them?
When you tell on you tell on yourself in the name of transparency, the general idea is that you're also transparent about how you're fixing the problem. S!K is just telling on themselves.
And people are still purchasing knives from them?
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This is ignorant and I don't appreciate the implication for the staff of Blade Forums.
Show some respect.
ncrockclimb
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They just posted an "update" on Youtube. Guy regurgitates the same vague BS about things getting better and how nothing is really their fault. S!K Facebook page comments are the only social media that they cannot proactively edit, and customers are PISSED! According to many posts, S!K is still not answering emails or phone, and do not process refunds. Also, some of the negative comments are periodically deleted.
TLDR - business as usual at S!K.
Any updates on the lawsuit?
TLDR - business as usual at S!K.
Any updates on the lawsuit?
Danny Linguini
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I think I’ve been blocked from their FB page. I left a comment on one of Guy’s videos suggesting he spend less time making videos and more time making knives, then he wouldn’t have to make so many videos explaining why he can’t make enough knives to fill his orders. Right after that Survive Knives stopped showing up in the FB search results. I guess maybe that wasn’t received too well.
ncrockclimb
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They have blocked A LOT of people. Their private group is even worse; Ellie is really active on that page, and if you dare to question her or point out how crazy some of her BS is, the ban you. What is wild is how many disgruntled customers find their way to that group, make a few posts complaining about S!K, then get banned. There are a lot of pissed off customers out there...
Survive just crossed a line with me. I don’t post too much and never had a bad word to say on any manufacturer on any of my 100+ collection but Survive really are a joke.
I was new to the brand as a customer around 6 months ago and ordered a V-7 and a 5.1 as their website stated “may take up to 3 months”. I was fine with a 3 month timeline and good to go. I then saw various posts like this forum and on FB that made me worry about the timelines. Luckily I had paid via PayPal so wasn’t concerned too much.
Fast forward to the last month and I have acquired all the models I wanted from the secondary market and wanted to get refunds. No respond emails, dead phone calls so I requested a refund through PayPal. They didn’t respond to it so after about 30 days PayPal gave me a full refund. Fine.
Whilst this was going on, I got an email from Survive outline a batch of 5.1 seconds that would ship out within 10 days. Long story short, 2 months later, no knife has arrived, no email responses or anything so I raised another PayPal refund and decided I won’t ever support that brand again.
In the dispute, Survive responded in the resolution centre stating that the knife had shipped with a tracking number of “000000” via USPS. I complete fabrication that from my view was input to delay the refunding of my money or avoid refunding me all together. I am lost for words with the conduct of this business and hope they just close their doors now. They have crossed a line with their conduct to a point of blatant fraud now.
All the best on the law suit and I feel so sorry for all the people who have put money on blades 6+ years ago that no one will likely ever see.
I was new to the brand as a customer around 6 months ago and ordered a V-7 and a 5.1 as their website stated “may take up to 3 months”. I was fine with a 3 month timeline and good to go. I then saw various posts like this forum and on FB that made me worry about the timelines. Luckily I had paid via PayPal so wasn’t concerned too much.
Fast forward to the last month and I have acquired all the models I wanted from the secondary market and wanted to get refunds. No respond emails, dead phone calls so I requested a refund through PayPal. They didn’t respond to it so after about 30 days PayPal gave me a full refund. Fine.
Whilst this was going on, I got an email from Survive outline a batch of 5.1 seconds that would ship out within 10 days. Long story short, 2 months later, no knife has arrived, no email responses or anything so I raised another PayPal refund and decided I won’t ever support that brand again.
In the dispute, Survive responded in the resolution centre stating that the knife had shipped with a tracking number of “000000” via USPS. I complete fabrication that from my view was input to delay the refunding of my money or avoid refunding me all together. I am lost for words with the conduct of this business and hope they just close their doors now. They have crossed a line with their conduct to a point of blatant fraud now.
All the best on the law suit and I feel so sorry for all the people who have put money on blades 6+ years ago that no one will likely ever see.
So, they tried to give paypal a fake usps tracking number to delay a refund? You did get refunded through paypal though, right? Did paypal say anything? Any more details you could add would be helpful. Thank you for speaking up!
Hi Mate, after they responded with the fraudulent USPS tracking number I raised it again and PayPal sided with me and granted a full refund. Sorry I forgot that bit. I could almost forgive the complete radio silence from them but to actually go out of their way to input this just seemed downright deceptive.
Thanks. And yes, that is a new level of deception, one I'm sure paypal does not appreciate. At one time, paypal froze their funds because of so many refund requests. That was years ago and I doubt survive keeps a balance anymore. Not sure why paypal is still taking payments for them.
ncrockclimb
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Entering a fraudulent tracking number draws out the process / delays the refund. S!K is all about the interest free working capital and keeping the sales $s for as long as possible.