The Knife Auction.com website

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http://theknifeauction.com/

Ran accross this place looking for an alternative to bladeauction
it seems to be a newly started site with some nice stuff on it , may not be that new but I have not heard of it before so its ne to me , 25.00 credit to those that sign up to sell and list stuff , I am not affiliated with them other than being a dealer/Maker wanting a better place to sell without all the chinese clone junk:D
 
a better place to sell without all the chinese clone junk
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The place looks like it's awash in shady .com dealers hawking cheap chinese junk. I really wish that there was an auction site that would keep that ilk out.
 
Originally posted by Gollnick
The place looks like it's awash in shady .com dealers hawking cheap chinese junk. I really wish that there was an auction site that would keep that ilk out.
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The following is a all the knives listed in "Custom Fixed blade"

AMAZING BOWIE KNIFE - NONE CHEAPER

Tomahawk Tactical Fighting Knife

S&W-H.R.T. SPECIAL OPS BOOT KNIFE

Muela Alce Commando

Spiker By Sarco- Designed By Chuck Simmons

German Miniature Hunter

Marble Ideal Hunter E/Leather Sheath

S&W H.R.T Special Ops Boot Knife__


Not a "custom" knife in the bunch

Custom folder had 83 knives listed and the closest any came to custom was a chinese copy of a Mel Pardue benchmade.

Drew
 
Not to mention, why exactly are you advertising a site that seeks to compete directly with BFC, by taking away the people who actually support this site?
 
I guess I should have known better than to try to post something on the crybaby Forums here , I just thought someone might want check out to see what else there is , Personaly I was unaware that bladeforums here has an auction site after the last flop a few years back when they were trying to charge 15.00 to 20.00 to auction stuff as a new auction , besides I said I was looking for a decent knifesite. as far as I am concerned Spark you can delete my information off your crappy site it has not been that great in a very long time and I sure would never pay to be on it it is barly worth coming here just to browse once in awhile , I understand if you wish to delete the post frankly I figure you will anyhow simply because I dont think your even close to being Good here much less worth the effort
 
Well, that person didn't take long to show their maturity, understanding, and good judgement. :rolleyes:

I my experience auctions tend to be on the extremes of the knife spectrum. Low end knockoffs, by far the most common, or very high end, like Voyles.

So, tbark, now that you have determined we're a bunch of crybabies on a pathetic forum, you'll be leaving soon?
 
Not to mention that if this site sucks so bad, why are you advertising here in the first place?

And, not to correct your massive intellect, genius, but the auctions here did not charge 15 to 20$ per auction. But then again, when you can't get the general right, nobody expects a person like you to remember the details.
 
One has to wonder if tbark was really trying to spam the site he posted or ruin it...this forum is the number one forum for knife nuts and he calls the thousands of us crybabies? Smells more like troll than spam.
 
tbark, that's a great auction site you're running there. 867 auctions and a total of two bids. Looks like it is a real success.
 
I resent tbark's posting (here on one of my favorite websites), and find his auction site to be the pits.

I guess our host (Spark) is keeping him around for comic relief.
 
Question to Spark: Is linking to any knife related web site prohibited? If yes, you should clearly say so. BTW the signature you added to tbark post is childish at best. Are you sure he is Jay Johnson?

David
 
Advertising is prohibited. That's been covered again and again - you want to promote your products, you pay to do so. Anyhow, he wants to be a baby, he gets treated like one.
 
Question to Spark: Is linking to any knife related web site prohibited?
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Absolutely not. Spark permits posting links to other sites as long as you're not advertising your own business without being an appropriately paid member and making such posts in the correct forums, and as long as you're not shilling for the business in question. Also, when paid members to promote their own business sites, common ethics call for them to clearly disclose that relationship.

We've also allowed even non-paid knifemakers and dealers to put discrete, text-only links to their websites in their signature lines.

We discourage linking to other knife forum sites for obvious reasons.

Apparently, Mr. Tbark has a business relationship with the auction site in question.

The thing that drew some minor ribbing for Mr. tbark here is that he says, "without all the chinese clone junk." Yet when I went there, I found that most of what's offered is chinese clone junk. MR. Ilovetoolsteel's observations confirm that.

Imagine someone posting, "Isn't that Benchmade Nimravus a great folding knife," and someone replied, "Yours must be broken because the Nimravus is a fixed-blade knife." It's a factual correction. The first poster made a factual error. You wouldn't expect the first poster to have such delicate feelings that he'd stomp off vowing never to return just because someone pointed out his factual error.
 
tbark = Michael Fisher, a knifemaker out of Covington, Texas. I do not know if he has any relationship with Jay Johnson from Kaufman, Texas or not. If theknifeauction.com is not tbark's site then I apologize for my earlier comment.
 
Hey guys, I'm a fan of big Bowies, including Mineral Mountain Hatchet Works creations. On this auction thing, I saw two MMHW beauties just were listed on ebay. Speaking to not getting ripped off - is ebay usually safe for something like this? What if the seller doesn't have "knife knowledge"?

Thanks
 
I've been ripped off by misrepresented items on ebay on several occaisions, I look on ebay but don't buy.

Auctions are the last refuge of scoundrels I think.
 
Originally posted by DaveH
Auctions are the last refuge of scoundrels I think.
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whoaaa! I understand this thread until this, we do lots of auctions, and WE do not fit in with this statement, there are some out there yes, but don't group everyone in there. Paul
 
I've made over 60 satisfactory purchases on eBay. One turned out to be not as described. When I questioned the seller, he took the item back and refunded my money promptly with no hassles.

As with any market, the buyer has to be careful. I frequently see items sell on eBay for more than you can buy them new at retail from any number of well-known suppliers. I even see common, current-production stuff readily available sell for over MSRP on eBay. Stupid buyers.

I also sometimes see things listed incorrectly on eBay. For example, just a few weeks ago I corrected a seller who had listed a Benchmade Model 42. The picture and the description were of a Benchmade 31. When I brought it to the seller's attention, he did not huff off vowing never to sell on eBay again. Instead, he thanked me and corrected his listing. And why not? He's more likely to attract a bid and less likely to have problems after the sale if he lists the item correctly.

I won an auction just the other day (not a knife) and was floored to get an invoice for $30 when the winning bid was cents over $15. It seems that this seller charges a bit of a fee for packing. I missed that in the fine print of the listing. My mistake. I learned a lesson.

In general, don't buy something on eBay if you're not sure about what you're bidding on (unless it's really, really cheap and you're willing to gamble). And read the whole listing. Be sure to check where the seller is located. I once won a balisong knife only to find out that the seller was in England. It's illegal to import a balisong into the US so that one involved a risk of a loss to customs (it turned out that the knife came through just fine). Also, international can mean long shipping times, higher shipping costs, and you may get slapped with duty. And check out the seller's feedback. Finally, check out the seller's previous auctions to see if the seller routinely sells this type of item. If not, there's a higher chance of errors in the listing.

Basically, be a little bit careful and you can get great bargains.
 
I didn't say all people that sell by auctions are bad! But by the time one sorts out the wheat from the chaff, it's probably more cost effective to just by from a well thought of web source.
 
Originally posted by DaveH
I've been ripped off by misrepresented items on ebay on several occaisions, I look on ebay but don't buy.

Auctions are the last refuge of scoundrels I think.
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There are a number of simple ways to buy off Ebay without getting mis-represented items. If you know what you are buying, a few simple, to the point questions will smoke out any faker. Contact the seller before you buy.

I have had over 200 satisfactory experiences on Ebay, both as buyer and seller. Out of that total, I have had just 2 bad experiences. Both were obvious vermin that misrepresented their items. However, the items were less than $40 each, so a minor risk in any event. I have paid as much as $500 for custom knives off of Ebay with nary a problem.

Save your generalizations for another forum, thanks.
 
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