The Counterfeit Rule

Esav Benyamin

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Thanks to the Busse forum mods, we now have a reasonable rule for discussing counterfeits. We don't want to give scammers any help advertising their sales but we do want to help identify the bad guys.

Manufacturers get to police discussions of counterfeits in their own forums. Other discussions go in FEEDBACK and are subject to The Rule:

They may post pictures along with their thread, but only hosted by them on an image hosting site or their account here. This way it can't be opened in a new page to see the site address, or can't be located by the "copy image url" option, no links to auctions of counterfeits, whether live or finished, no hints to where they are or were. That way the discussion stays where it belongs, on "How to ID a fake" only.

Furthermore, no more long drawn-out trolling discussions on Why Counterfeits Are Good For The Knife Industry. We have a Dumbass Thread for that.​
 
Thanks for the stickie Esav, I think this is the best way to address this issue, in the last couple months there were quite a few counterfeit threads that degenerated into the W&C level of discussion.

We should concentrate on education and identification of the knives not the counterfeiters, when I got my first Sebenza, I poured over every video and thread out there so when I pulled the trigger on the Sebenza I was 99% sure it was legit.

I hope the manufacturers in their individual subforums follow the example of CRK and make thier own counterfeit identification stickies.

Thanks again.
 
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