Here are my thoughts. I agree Lynn Thompson is a blowhard and I don't like his marketing practices. However, I don't think much of Jerry Busse's marketing and sales practices either.

However, neither of these characters is dating my daughter or coming for Sunday dinner and it's their capital at risk. Therefore they can run their companies any way they wish and I have a choice to make. I can either buy their producets or not. In the case of Cold Steel, I have a couple of Voyagers that I like very much and I have a couple of fixed blades I have found to be fine knives.

I don't own any knives from Busse Combat. If they make product available at a reasonable price, I'll consider purchase. If they don't, well, I won't hold my breath.