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Post by md02geist on Feb 21, 2024 20:23:40 GMT
I already bought it from Christian Shorts , what's your point? [br We have had MANY scams that look similar lately, these appear like pics Christian himself has taken. You'll get more serious offers if you post your own pics and the scabbard. Of course I will post it. I have it ready for sale and will add pictures today.
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Post by md02geist on Feb 21, 2024 20:20:41 GMT
Looks like pics of Christian Shorts sword 🤔 and no pic of scabbard. Note looks fake too... I already bought it from Christian Shorts , what's your point?
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Post by md02geist on Feb 21, 2024 20:18:09 GMT
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Post by md02geist on Feb 21, 2024 20:11:56 GMT
That looks really nice. It's in great condition. I will not trade. I have enough feedback and trade forum. For sale only. $1300 shipped USA or CAD only. PayPal F&F or Venmo Send pm if interested. Thanks for looking!
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Post by md02geist on Oct 22, 2020 12:31:50 GMT
Excellent experience with this member.
The blade was shipped extremely quickly, and communication and price was great.
Unfortunately the blade had a few issues that were not intentional on the part of Throwaway; but they immediately fixed the situation for me without any issues.
I can't say enough positive about this member. They are a real boon to SBG. I'm completely happy with our transaction.
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Post by md02geist on Nov 17, 2016 4:10:01 GMT
I wouldn't even sell to him. Dude seems to be a big fan of working the system; I'm sure he'd find some way to screw you over or attempt to.
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Post by md02geist on Nov 8, 2016 14:11:35 GMT
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Post by md02geist on Nov 8, 2016 13:58:52 GMT
He used username "sosukeaizen" with me and tried to pull a bunch of crap.
I sent him paypal and then he suddenly said oh it's too expensive to ship I will refund money
Then claimed he didn't know how to refund money then stopped responding. I told him like eight times how to refund the money.
I filed a paypal claim and won and suddenly he messaged me like "omg I am indebted to paypal what is going on"
I told him too bad, he shouldn't have tried to pull a fast one and then he disappeared.
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Post by md02geist on Oct 13, 2016 23:55:06 GMT
Will add to this; I purchased a katana from him and communication was mostly good, shipping was very fast and he did an excellent job packaging it. Probably the best job I've ever seen someone do packaging a katana honestly.
It was just as described and I'm happy with the deal.
Thanks dude!
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Post by md02geist on Jul 24, 2016 15:35:48 GMT
We were all new members at one point.
Lesson is don't buy from *this* member.
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Post by md02geist on Jul 23, 2016 17:04:21 GMT
PayPal resolved claim in my favor and should be getting my money back in a few days.
Note to everyone else; don't be this guys short term loan officer, because it's clear that's all he wanted. He never responded to any of mine or paypals emails.
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Post by md02geist on Jul 18, 2016 16:20:02 GMT
Agreed to purchase a Hanwei Bamboo Mat katana from this member. We arranged shipping (he is out of country) and I even agreed to pay extra for shipping cost etc. Not a problem.
He sent me several messages over the course of the day asking when he could be expected to be paid; I paid nearly immediately.
This was on 7/9.
He stated it would be shipped soon. I said fine, okay let me know when it ships.
On 7/11 he wrote "I had a very busy day. Tomorrow, it will be sent. I will also give you the maintenance kit since I won´t need it anymore..."
I said that was fine.
On 7/12 he wrote "Dear md02geist,
Germany isn´t a good country when it comes to shipping. I must order a special box...
Sorry but you have to wait
Regards"
30 minutes later he wrote: "Thursday or Friday IT WILL be sent." And then: "Thursday it will be shipped. "
I said "Ok."
On 7/12 the SAME DAY about 5-6 hours later he wrote: "After long thoughts, I decided to not selling the katana.
I´m sorry. You can take you money back."
At this point I was frustrated with all the back and forth excuses and crap so I just said Ok fine, just issue the refund.
He responded: "There is one problem...
When I got the money PayPal changed it to pounds. Now, I can only send dollars back, but it is in pounds.... '
Please help. Or just take the money by saying to paypal that I we don´t trade anymore"
I said I would handle stuff on my end through the resolution center and opened a dispute. It's now easy as eating pancakes to issue a refund, we all know this.
He wrote to me: "Are you online? Please help me so I can pay you the sum back
Your [amount ommitted] dollars are in my account but in form of [amount ommitted] pound sterling. Don´t know what happened but I can´t refund you that money. You know how to change to dollar again?"
I responded: "Yes I am online, yes I am sending message. I did it through paypal resolution. Please click on paypal resolution case and click "full refund" thank you. This is a huge pain."
He didn't respond until 7/13 on which he said: "I am not in love with your money but I have a problem with PayPal. I don´t see the money I got from you. After solving this problem I will send you your money. Please wait a bit more. PayPal is a complicated bullsemprini that I will never use again.... "
I wrote back: "Just click on dispute and click issue refund. It's that easy. Explained this a lot of times now."
He has since not logged back onto SBG, and I have no refund though the dispute is open. I called paypal and escalated it to a claim since he wants to play games with my money.
Just a forewarning, this is the sort of thing you can expect from this guy apparently.
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Post by md02geist on Jun 14, 2016 0:38:08 GMT
I mean I don't mean to be rude here but banging metal on metal (especially with the edge) is an awful test of "hardness."
You learn *nothing* about the hardness of a metal by smacking the edge against another metal surface. Literally the only thing you are testing is edge geometry, and in the meantime you're horribly abusing the tool. Katana edges are made *very* hard to maintain a sharp edge but as a result they are the most brittle part of the sword. That's why they are traditionally differentially hardened; so you could maintain a nice cutting edge with the hard part but have a sword that can absorb shock if necessary and not shatter or snap (thus the much softer, more flexible remainder of the blade).
Katana weren't meant to hit other swords edge on like that, you weren't supposed to block with the edge of your sword but rather with the side and not *block* but slide the opponents sword away. I mean you do what you have to do so if you needed to block with the edge you would, but generally blocking with the edge of a sword is nothing more than a great way to ruin a blade.
I certainly can't see doing that to any weapon or blade to test it much less an expensive one, but hey it's not my money so you do whatever you'd like with your stuff.
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Post by md02geist on Jun 13, 2016 22:56:15 GMT
You banged edges on metal to test hardness...?
Oh my.
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Post by md02geist on Oct 22, 2012 23:14:18 GMT
Great transaction with him, purchased a nice book on samurai armor and weapons that was in the condition as described. Shipping was very fast. Thanks!
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Post by md02geist on Aug 28, 2012 0:09:27 GMT
For a TRUE learning experience about Nihonto, go to this forum: www.nihontomessageboard.com/These guys are VERY passionate and many know a LOT. The advice you are going to get when questioning how to first begin Nihonto collecting is this: buy books and READ READ READ. That is the step I am on. There is an infinite amount of knowledge to be gained from the NMB forums, and it is far more specialized than SBG is. No offense to SBG of course, I love this site as well. Just as a warning, the guys on NMB do not want ANY talk of modern day production blades.They are there specifically to only speak of Nihonto, so don't ask them about Paul Chen or any of that jazz, you will get polite (possibly a few not polite) responses basically telling you that they don't discuss those swords there. Stick to Nihonto only discussion there and you will be good.
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Post by md02geist on Oct 25, 2011 1:32:37 GMT
Thumbs up, was very easy to deal with. Paid promptly and understood when I took a short (24 hour) shipping delay due to UPS "irregular shape" fee. They wanted to charge me 40.00 to ship a sword only a few states away, and USPS did it for less than half that I believe. Anyways he was cool about it and totally understood. Happy to provide him with a very solid blade at one hell of a price.
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Post by md02geist on Jul 6, 2011 3:43:12 GMT
Edge on edge tests prove very little, except who has the beefier edge geometry. I don't think a sword chipping edge-on-edge is a failure of any type for the blade. When thin sharp metal hits thin sharp metal, something is bound to give.
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Post by md02geist on Jul 5, 2011 14:09:28 GMT
Thanks for that update.
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Post by md02geist on Jul 5, 2011 13:25:39 GMT
Am I correct in understanding that this is the case? I was told they are no longer accepting orders yet their website still looks active and you are still able to order and pay for things from it, it seems.
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