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Hey Bill,

Over on e-Bay, someone by the name of Himilayan Imports (the California based Himilayan Imports?) is selling Khukuris. How can they steal your company's name?

Oh BTW, the 15 inch AK I got from you was put to some good use. I chopped up a log (about 10" thick). The khukuri worked about as good as an axe, however the d**ned thing crippled me. When I got done, I was so tired that I dropped the da**ed thing on the little toe of my right foot. Neither the khukuri nor my toe were broken, but my toe hurts like h**l. I'm lucky the knife landed spine first, otherwise some serious damage would have been done.

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John
 
Imitation is the sincerest compliment. When you are number one this is what to expect. The last time this guy was doing this I emailed him and he told me he had a DBA in CA for Himalayan Imports for the past five years. I replied that we had a DBA in CA since 1989. He quit for a couple of months and is at it again. It is not worth bothering with. I put a note on our website saying anything on Ebay was not us.

Will Kwan and I are fond of quoting Confusius who says:

This khukuri advice you must know
Do not drop khukuri on your toe.

If you do then you will say
I had ten toes until today

Confusius

Good advice!

Uncle Bill
 
I love it. Maybe you should offer driving instructions for the AK series. Oh, BTW, thanks for the quick response the other day on my backordered 20" Sirupati.

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John
 
Maybe posting these jerks address on the "good the bad and the ugly" would be a good idea so everybody can beware. Ebay is a watch your wallet kind of place. Buyer beware is really applicable there. I will not buy anything from them because of this.
 
I posted a notice on the newsgroups last time around. What I hate about it is some people might actually believe that's us selling junk on Ebay.

But, as you so correctly pointed out Cobalt, Ebay is caveat emptor territory.

Uncle Bill
 
I think it's horrendous that somebody would steal a name. It's not like the "other" Himalayan Imports sells scarves or cars - they sell knives. And because of product similarity, what they are doing is illegal (even if they have a DBA).
 
I think Ebay was recently busted for allowing anti-tank weapons to be sold on their site. They do not seem to be overly concerned about legalities.

Uncle Bill
 
Big tree, need big khukukuri.

Seriously, I find the 20" Ang Khola the least tiring to use against tough chopping jobs.

Will
 
Iceman:

"...neither the khukuri(#1) nor my toe(#2)..."

You obviously have your priorities in the right order. LOL
 
Rusty,

Yes, I do have my priorities in order. That particular toe has been injured so many times (It's fine now) that one more time was hardly even noticed, but, to injure my new AK would have been a catastrophe, with the punishment being to take a remedial AK driving course loss of driving privileges for many months.
BTW, the edge on the AK needed a little touching up after all that chopping. Forty strokes on the Sharpmaker (fine) was all it took to make it shaving sharp again.

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John
 
Hey, Uncle Bill, maybe you should follow Bill Ruger's lead and have the kamis stamp "Warning: do not drop on toe" in Devanagari. Can you imagine how long it would take the kamis to stop laughing over that? Or imagine some future John Powell type collector having the script deciphered to try to establish a provenance for that khuk and it coming back with that warning translated into English?
 
RUSTY, the translation just came in one: "if you can read this, you're way too close"

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JP
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Damn. A warning lable in Devag...aw hell. In their language. MAN. That would be a SERIOUSLY funny joke. We're talking utterly HILARIOUS.

Bill, you should talk to a kami or three over there...get them to etch that on their tourist blades. Good stuff.

Actually, this reminds me of something. A friend of mine in high school was an army brat (I think it was army, anyway). His family had just rotated off Okinawa, and he had a seemingly LIMITLESS supply of these great t-shirts, all adorned with rising suns and japanese (okinawese?) lettering. Really cool looking stuff. I asked him one day what the shirt he was wearing said. He looked down at it and laughed. "It says, 'I'm a stupid tourist and I paid too much money for this shirt.'" I blinked and looked at him.

He explained that his buddies had a business going with some local kids: they bought t-shirts bulk and put their own silk-screen designs on them and sold them to tourists and people at the military bases. The locals LOVED it and they made a TON of mad money selling insults to stupid americans.

So if you visited Okinawa in the mid-80s and bought a shirt...you might want to find out what it says.

Mike
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PS see? I'm not naturally warped...it was my environment. Really.
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Hey! Uncle Sam!

(_!_) Nyah nyah nyah!

Refund! You lose! :)


 
Humor is alive and well in the HI forum! That was funny too, Mike. Gets my day off to a good start to read stuff like this. Laughter is good medicine.

Uncle Bill
 
Bill: Funny thing - it was me who was selling the "anti-tank weapons"
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Actually, they were expended AT4s, which are legal to own. They are, for the non-military types, one time shooters - the technology is in the round - the launcher is just a plastic tube. I know this ain't a khukuri topic, but I thought you'd be amused. I got a few replies from people who wanted to know if I could get "other" stuff! Horrendous!
 
Craig, you continue to amaze me. Who buys AT4s and what do they do with them? I have never visited Ebay so really don't know what they do there but someone told me like 2 million items are being sold. How can anybody keep track of that many items?

Uncle Bill
 
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