SB
while I can understand the cause of the sentiment, I'm sorry to hear you post it the way you did. This is the sort of thing that will encourage some folks to only show up when there's something special to order.
Self-fulfilling prophecy, sort of like when Jerry opened up hog membership to anyone who owned a Busse knife, even if they had not shaken his hand at a show.
some folks grabbed up the offer and disappeared, some folks used it as a gateway drug to start a new knife addiction. some of the established HOGs spent so much time grumbling about all the new piglets they forgot what it means to be a hog/dog/rat.

I've been looking for a SYKCO blade that would fill a niche in my pile of users for a while -- this one really grabbed my attention.
so far looking around the site, I've seen a lot of good things, and I'm planning on hanging around to see more of them.