trust us as opposed to the few like you who do not?
Generally I make my own descisions rather then count yes's or no's from other people.
On the Kiwi issue bolsters and a shield to not make a knife different in my opinion. That's open to each person's interpretation.
Everytime I read about the "Paul" knives they're supposed to be rare, but every few months new ones come out.
I almost purchased a Matthes sebenza style knife from you many years ago, they where as I recall a little over $200. Just a few years ago I purchased and susequently sold one for $65. With all do respect that was not a $200 retail knife. Call it trust if you want, but I'll call it "take it with a grain of salt".
Are you a customer? Have you ever been disapointed by us?
I have been a customer will I continue to be, I don't know. Since asked about me personally, I will mention my experiences.
Subjective
I purchased a Lone Wolf City knife from you when running a discount. From the catalog description, I expected absolute first quality. I was disapointed, many feel that it's a great knife. I didn't send it back as it was part of a passaround and I didn't want to hold it up on what I knew where subjective grounds.
You repeat in you catalog, the Boker sales line that cera Ti kills germs. With no proof of that, I find that irresponsible.
Maybe you have changed you shipping practice, but sending knives in an envelope with no padding ends up squishing the knife box, and tearing the envelope. I called an spoke to Goldie I believe at that, not a biggie.
Objective
I call twice about the Sea Master knife to find out if it had a pivot bushing ala a sebenza and if it came with some sort of pivot key to adjust. Neither time did the staff know. I was a little surprised that someone goes the trouble to build their own knife, at a fairly high price, but not know anything about it.
You may recall that at one time I was doing passarounds for/with you. There where two reasons why I don't any more. The first and primary reason was the tone of your email concerning passaround participants, it was quite unprofessional.
The second was that my repeated emails where not answered, which I took to making phone calls, which where not returned. In addition the wrong item was sent on either 2 or 3 different occasions. It also seemed to take an inordinate amount of time to send items.
I understand respect that you have and continue to do much for the industry as well as for soldiers over seas. I also understand and respect that you have a really large amount of orders and business that you do. I'm OK with your prices.
Further I can understand that perhaps 99.999 percent of your customers have received "World Class Service". I have not. So yes, that makes two people.
