Wired45, here's the long and short of it. I sold you a knife that left my posession in new condition (and yes you did ask if it was new - see PM's posted earlier).You then received it with glowing feedback. Then, a few hours later, you started this thread claiming it had scratches on the blade. You didn't tell me about the scratches or this thread. Even after that, I would still have helped make it right if somehow the knife was scratched during shipping. You were logged in, and I assume you read this thread and saw my intentions to help you out, but you chose not to respond. Then you sent me an email using the BFC email system, letting all of us know that you were logged on again and STILL chose not to respond in the thread you created. You say you polished the scratches out of the blade. I find that very convenient. That was NOT a good idea. Now, you have a knife that could have been factory fresh (assuming there actually were scratches to begin with), but instead has an amateur polish job ("amateur" meaning "not factory"). ONE short little PM, email, note, smoke signal, or SOMETHING telling me of these mystery scratches, and I would've taken your word for it and gotten it taken care of immediately, no questions asked. I think I've been more nice about this than I should've been, considering what you posted. I've taken the liberty of quoting it here for posterity.
For anyone reading this and trying to decide whether I ripped someone off or not, let me just say that I don't misrepresent things. If I have a knife and it has scratches in the blade, I'll say so. I'm a bit anal-retentive about things like that myself, so I would definitely notice if something was wrong with a knife. All I can give on that is my word. And if a situation should arise where something is received in a different condition than I stated it was in, I will go through hell and high water to make it right. I've been screwed plenty of times, so I know what it's like.
HOWEVER, when I see something telling the whole world that I'm a piece of crap, and I've heard nothing from the buyer, my BS detector starts to go off. That is odd and underhanded behavior. My natural instinct to give a person the benefit of the doubt goes down the toilet. My skepticism in this particular case is not my normal reaction.
Hopefully that will clear the air on some of this.
The original posts:
I ASKED FOR A SMOG GAMEWARDEN ON THE WTB FORUM-AND I ASKED AS NEW THE ONE I RECIEVED HAS SEVERAL SCRATCHES IN BALED AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEB SOLD AS NEW-THIS IS A USER AND I PAID TOP DOLLAR FOR NIB-WOULD NEVER RECOMEND SELLER-NOT A HAPPY CAMPER-PAID
$300 FOR A USER ARE YOU KIDDING ? NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR-VERY BAD DEAL-WOULD NOT RECOMEND ! ! !:thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn:
I Can't Wait For Your Next Post ! ! ! Very Bad Bussiness-would Never Recomend ! ! ! My Mistake Don't Make The Same -keep Away ! ! !
) I have to conclude that they were not scratches but simply "sheath marks" or some other type of material build up. 
Also I agree with all the other brothers that there should have been attempts to contact TRUTHSEEKER and give him a chance to remedy the problem before blasting him here on this Forum 
