I haven't gone through the materials that the post office gave me yesterday to estimate shipping. The proxy total on my card (not counting MPLEs, since I don't know if they're all going to be claimed -- I suspect they will, but can't be certain) was $1009.97.

My personal Knob Creek haul was $2190.56. My adjusted Swamp Rat order with Eric was $1366.35. Scrap Yard Deregulators and sheaths came to $594.45 and the Shamruckoganza hit was $901.35. All in all, this was a very expensive couple months for the steel addicted.

By the way, a few people other than the MPLE JYDs and people I was proxying Muks for have expressed interest in any potentially left over MPLEs. I offered them to the JYDs because that just seems to be the right thing to do, and will offer any remaining to Muk folks to try to make up for not scoring for them. Other than them, my intent is to keep any not claimed -- initially, I bought them for myself. One of the things I say very often is that it never hurts to ask, so I'm not angry that y'all asked, and I hope no hard feelings on your end for me declining.

Good job Jim- hope you had a great time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

oh my! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> think my heart fluttered a little bit. You are THE MAN Jim! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />

THANK YOU JIM!!!

Very nice of you Jim. To proxy all those blades. It sounds like a fun trip. I hope I can do it in the Fall. I really like those Bama Clay Rats.

Same here Jim, spending way too much these couple months

Jim: Thank you ever so much for your kind offer of the #105 MPLE! I really want one but I am regretfully going to have to pass. I have worried and fretted and thought and changed my mind numerous times since you sent me a PM. But Today (saturday actually) at church made me have to go with the Weiner dog that lazi has offered me. We are going to have Bible school again and are going to need "props". Long story short, about 4 years ago I cut up 5 4ft by 8ft sheets of 1 inch thick insulation board. My wife and I projected the Outline of undersea critters on the boards, drew around them and then I cut out about 150 fish, octopus scuba divers and a couple dolphins by hand with a knife! It was time consuming yet fun. Well I am gonna have to cut out some stuff again this year and decided the Weiner Dog would work really good for this and It would not need to be sharpened every 4-5 fish as the fillet knife was.

So, once again, thank you very much for your offer but I can't get both knives and the WD will be the most useful for me, at least initially and hopefully I won't regret not getting the MP to much.

Thank You

Randy

And again, this offer of Jims just once again proves this is the best bunch of folks on the best forum on the net!

Gentlemen

Please I need your help. I live in Central Europe so I can't go to Knob Creek to order a knife. I want only one knife: BOSS Jack without choil.

I tried to ask for Proxy on bladeforums, but had no luck.

I heard that to order one BOSS Jack you have to deposit $40.

PLEASE! Would somebody proxy for me. I can send you the money via PayPal right now. Just tell me how much do I have to send so you'll receive the full amount.

Or tell me any other conditions...

I'll try to repay you somehow, if I could.

Sorry, Newazzkikr; if nobody's responded by now I think you'll have to try the Spring KnoboGanzaaaaaa route because the show ends in about 20 minutes and depending on where you're parked, hiking down to the range may take longer than that. (http://machinegunshoot.com/pdf/2010_machine_gun_shoot_schedule.pdf). I don't know if the Busse Combat will continue to allow people to pre-arange payment, or if they'll formally state the rules, but that made proxying for those who did it much easier. The rules seemed to be:

1) You need to have placed an order with Busse Combat or set up an account with them so that they have your contact and payment information on-file.

2) Busse Combat employees are not allowed to proxy for you; they need to be free to maintain order at the tables.

3) If an attendee has agreed to proxy for you, and they can find the knives you want, all they need to do is hand those knives to the person who is checking folks out along with your contact information.

4) They fill out an invoice with the customer's contact info, and put it off to the side along with the knives your proxy gathered. I don't know if it was an error on their part, but if I'd wanted to pre-order knives for myself, I'd have had to pay a $40 deposit per knife, but I did not have to pay any out-of-pocket deposit for the people who'd made pre-arrangements.

5) Once they get back to the shop, those invoices will be processed and the associated knives sent out.

It takes extra time for the Busse Crew to do this, part of which seemed to be that the instructions were either told or understood differently from one person to the next. However, just in terms of additional paperwork, keeping reserved knives organized, and shipping individual orders, it's definitely more work for them. It makes proxying easier, which may generate more sales, but I don't know where the tipping point between extra sales and additional work is, so say "thank you" when dealing with the crew and we'll hope that/see if the practice continues.

Excellent point Jim - the Busse crew is great! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Newazzkikr - best of luck if you try in the Ganza Wednesday! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the info.

Yea, I'll try Ganza, but I want BOSS Jack so much...

Actually, BOSS Jacks are just about to be produced so I hope the number wont be too limited. I can't even think that I would miss this one especially if I got some cash ready for it.

For the folks who I currently have knives to send to, I need your addresses to more accurately determine priority mail postal zones:
RAISIN-CAIN, your profile says Jacksonville, Florida, which would be a zone 4 from me.

sumoj275, OK is either zone 4 or 5 depending on where you are in the state.

darkaether, when we dealt before, my archive indicates you were in NC, now you're profile says VA; most of VA is zone 4.

I don't have a scale handy, but I'd estimate maybe a packed weight of 4 pounds on the Dog Father, less for the Regulator and more on the NMSFNO + SARsquatch. It appears that Delivery Confirmation will add about a buck (80 cents) and insurance rates are listed on: http://www.usps.com/prices/insurance-prices.htm. You can choose whether or not to buy insurance; I'd recommend it, although the only time I've ever needed it was for items much more fragile than knives.

The Dog father was $139.95 + $9.73 KY sales tax / the Reg LE was $129.95 + $9.10 sales tax; taxes pretty much eat up the show special on that one, don't they?

darkaether, I need to send you a PM about yours -- nothing wrong, I'm still trying to decide whether or not to offer up a green linen Vex because I took the only Vex they had at the show for myself.