I've been fortunate with the folks on BladeForums. I look at their feedback [Click their name, view Public Profile, and the default tab (Feedback) has both a summary and a "View all Feedback for xxx" link -- NOTE: clicking on the View all feedback link takes you to where you go to leave feedback]. I also look at their number of posts - what I'm looking for is that they've established themselves. My belief, naive though it may be, is that most people on BladeForums as well as here at the Yard, consider themselves to part of a community and are therefore concerned with preserving their reputation.

For that reason, I've often paid with money orders and have engaged in commerce with folks here where trust was involved. On BladeForums, if your deal really goes bad, there's also the "Good, Bad, and Ugly" sub-forum where you can post about a bad experience. However, I'd strongly recommend communication and a certain amount of understanding in transaction where the seller is an individual -- you're dealing with folks who may have an injury or emergency that knocks them out of touch and you'll end up looking bad if you jump on somebody who was in the hospital. If I catch somebody in a lie, I'm pretty unforgiving, but otherwise I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I wholeheartedly agree with Bruce as far as eBay is concerned, but I'm a bit less security conscious on the forums, and it hasn't bit me yet. However, you should go with your gut, if you don't feel comfortable with a deal, then it's probably best to wait for the next one.

What does GB&U stand for? Man, the knife culture has more acronyms than the military! Not sayin spell everything out...just sayin I wish there was a glossary ;-)

It's a sub-forum on BladeForums:
BladeForums.com > The Knife Exchange > FEEDBACK: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly!

Re: EBay, What is Bruce's handle, Jim? I missed that one.

Bruce is bld522.

Thanks all for your response.

I like the secondary market and am going to have to find a BD on it because i did not score on the dog bowl.

I have had awesome experiences on the secondary market both buying and selling.
I try to give good deals particularly to serving military personal and have gotten some great ones in return. Just yesterday I got a Skookum Bush tool and an Atwood Atwrench for cost and an Emerson for 50$. I do most of my buying and selling on the CGN forum which is a Canadian forum with a lot of Scrapyard fans and a very small size so everyone knows each other.

It is still a good deal even if it is way more than retail if 1 you are willing to pay for it and 2 if you can sell it for 100% of what you paid which is rare for knives that don't have a strong secondary market. I look at the secondary market price as the real one and the retail price as the sale price.

i didnt read all these post so this might have been said.

watch people with low posts.

95% percent of the guys in their are regulars and the fact that you have to be a gold member to sell and that membership costs $25.00 i think deters the scammers.

me and a few guys got scammed on KNIFEFORUMS last year by a guy with low posts.i should've known better.i know he still lurks around too.

you'll be fine over on the busse exchange.

many of the guys over their are very well known also and many of us have dealt with many of them.if foe some reason you have a particular concern about anyone or are on the fence give someone here a PM and chances are they have dealt with that person or know someone who has.

Mine on eBay is andynaylor. You can trust me if ya see a listing there. I've been selling for 10 years and have 100% feedback. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I have had good luck on the two Busse knives I have picked up on BF. Like the others have said, I just looked for high post count and any info on other deals. I did both with Paypal and would not hesitate to do it again.