Yeah, I will defend my actions and that of JSP. Most certainly...and there is a long history.
The venom and accusations lie dormant for months, then they flare up again at the slightest provocation.
I did in fact delete the thread of yesterday, it served no purpose but to further piss off "BladeWiz" and myself.
If I went into the Emerson Knives Forum, or, if Fred Perrin had a Forum on this site and I started a Thread, "Attention Emerson (or Perrin) Customers!" and went on to show some things I was manufacturing that were very similar to a LaGriffe, do you honestly think that would stand the sniff test? I think not.
So, that is how this all started with all of the painful explanations afterwards about how no one was ripping anyone else off and how I was threatened with a lawsuit for saying some things were a copy, ripped, etc., and Spark had a copy of all the E-Mails back and forth and if you look at the Thread, "A note to BladeWiz," you will indeed see that Spark thought there were threats of a silly lawsuit as well. It is all B.S.
The guy was making things very similar to what James makes...and he was selling them in the wrong place as well with a Header that read, Attention JSP Buyers, I cannot remember the exact wording, but it is in the JSP Forum right now under the Thread, "A note to BladeWiz."
In the latest debacle, he wants to know how a belt works, fine. The person that responded and told him asked, "Didn't you get instructions with your belt?"
I merely came on and said, "I don't think he has purchased one and left a BIG OLE SMILEY FACE....and the sh*t was on. You see, because I dared to show humor in light of the past differences we have had, I cannot do that you see...
I cannot win with this person. Now he is over hear crying about his right to fish fo things, and his right to just give people a hard time. When he is given a hard time back, he gets indignant.
Welcome to the real world BladeWiz, I am not someone you have pulled over during a traffic stop, I don't have to bow down to you Sir, nor will I. You don't like the smiley face and innocent comment? Tough sh*t.
I'm pissed now. Yeah? He is coming over here and gaining an audience to promote himself? Fine. He won't post over there anymore though.
Now, when he blasts me for making a one sentence "funny" and leaving a smiley face, I come back and blast him, then he says, "This is how JSP treats a potential customer?"
Then I tell him if you are a potential customer, call James and he will let you know everything you need to know.
Then he comes back and says, "When did I ever say I was a potential customer!!!"
WOW!
He won't call James and tell him who he is, truth be known, James has no interest in selling him anything so he can take it back and do whatever it is he is going to do.
By his past posts about "Attn: Prospective JSP Customers" this decision was made and a pattern of behavior was established.
This is all a publicity game to him anyway, he has said so in the past, "Everytime you go off, I get more customers." Fine by me.
See the game?
It is my desire that he now have his membership revoked.
This is not a matter of censorship, this is a matter of someone that wants to do nothing but fight about things that he started in the first place.