I have a sad story to tell. Back when the scrapper 5's were in the store I bought one for myself and one for my brother as a college graduation present. Fast forward to today my brother and his long time friend have been hiking the Appalachian trail since may 31st. My brother injured his ankle and had to call it quits on the 6th and left his scrapper 5 and david brown sheath with his friend so that he would have a solid knife with him in case of emergency. Wednesday his friend reached one of the shipping depots on the trail where they can pick up supplies and and send stuff home that is not needed. Since he was the only one still hiking he was looking to lighten his load anyway that he could and one of the guys at the depot suggested that he purchase a pocket knife and send the scrapper home to save on weight. (Clearly he has no idea about knives or it wouldn't have been going home but that is besides the point) My brother received the package from UPS today and it was light one scrapper 5. The package was tampered with and in our opinion the person at the shipping depot has a nice new knife. We called them today and of course we got the story oh we dont know what could have happened no one here would ever steal from a customer. We are getting UPS to cover the insurance on the package but that of course only is 100 dollars, and that barely covers the knife if it was still in the store and he is still out his sheath. We are still trying to speak with the store owner but he has yet to return any phone calls. I guess the moral of the story is to never let your knives out of your sight! Sorry for the long winded post just had to vent.
Justin Ellis

That sucks

Yes that really stinks. Sorry

That is terrible,taking advantage of someone who is long gone up the trail & he will probably never see again.I wonder how many other folks he has swindled.

That blows, Sounds like a Few people need to head back there with more Bussekin steel!

Your brother needs to post that on one or all of the AP trail hiking forums to warn others.

While it's possible that someone at the depot tampered with his package; it's also possible that someone along the USPS path did. About a month ago, I ordered two khukris from a non-Bussekin company. When the box arrived, it it was in this condition and only contained one of the khuks:





The company didn't insure it for the actual value, but they replaced it anyway. I just ordered a couple swords from them, and received notification that they've lost confidence in USPS and were shipping them with UPS.

Good point JIm.There have been many bad stories about our government run mail system on the various boards.
Glad the company replaced your Kuk. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

He is definitely working this angle especially as many people frequent this particular stop. I wish I knew the name of the place, I would post it here.

Best of luck! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

That is rough to hear. Regardless how it happened, the outcome is lousy. Hope that it works out.

I had a similiar experience when I was working at Game Crazy, every time a Fedex shipment came in. it got to the point where we had to count everything on the shipping list before the delivery guy could leave, stuff kept coming up missing. They even got smart and started opening the bottom of the boxes and retaping it... I hope someone nails whoever did this.