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As a member for over twenty years. A 'Platinum Member' who's bought/sold thousands of $$ worth of knives...I'd say don't bother with this place. It's been three weeks now and I haven't been able to access the site. I'm definitely no tech wizard, but I'm not sure any of them are either. I've seen many people get banned there and it looks like they'll ban themselves out of existence. Their advice (and you can wait days for them to respond) is to login and change your profile settings. HOW MANY WAYS OR TIMES CAN I EXPLAIN TO YOU< BLADEFORUMS, THAT IS THE PROBLEM. Keep my money. You're gonna need it when you're out of business.

I was a paying customer for a few years. I'm a hobby knife maker and have contributed to the forum, but after dealing with the notorious bully moderator called "Blues," a real psycho, I'm out. Enough is enough. The level of ego and butthurt at this place is over the top. Maybe they can start selling porn to pay for all the people leaving. Edit: I asked for them to remove and delete my account. Instead, they kept the content and claim that I was "banned," but that's a complete lie. These guys are evil and I'm lowering my rating from 2 to 1.

I was a paid member for 12 years and then without knowingly violating of the "rules" I was banned by the heavy-handed moderator Blues. She first threatened me regarding markings on sales post photos and then minutes later and without any further communications locked my post and banned me. Looking around the Internet I find many, many instances of Blues banning people with similar situations. Stay away and definitely do not become a paid member!

Scam laden website, full of trolls, completely mis-managed and ill-adequate to service any online community. Should be inspected and shutdown due to selling dangerous materials without validating identification or age prior to sales. This is a horrible company and business to partake in a venture with and shouldn't even be allowed to exist due to failing to create proper procedures to protect the safety of it's customers.

24 year old out of date threads containing incorrect information about my flip knives. Some of them are posted before I won the Blade magazine " Most innovative imported knife if the year" award in June 2000. Blade forum refuses to remove these posts which are comments on my prototype models and ideas and written by members who had never seen the final production knife the - I.D.2000 dpi flipknife.

I've been a member for a long time but over the years have started to become more and more irritated. Politics (outside of political sub-forums) is strict no-no as long as it suits the taste of the boomer echo chamber. Any arguments are met with suitable closure. Lots of discussion - no matter how appropriate - is met with hostility by tired frustrated members. The sub-forums that allow more freedom with discussion are filled with yahoos of antivaxers, flat earthers and tinfoil hats. The "whine & cheese" used to be sub-forum for bullying members that they seemed to put it behind the paywall now. Such a weird place and sad testament to the death of forums. I'd suggest going somewhere else where the looneys haven't figured out to go yet.

I am a long time member who decided to renew a paid one year membership. Several months into the renewal my account was abruptly banned despite being a member in good standing with no history of infraction or warnings. Emails on the matter went completely unanswered. It seems like a scam to get people’s money and then ban them to save on server fees or some other unknown reason.

There is a growing tide of people leaving Bladeforums.com due to "Blues" banning people and just being an all around bully, here is another example. Look at the dialog between "Blues" (moderator) and "kod"(paying customer) on a simple change issue that just required the owner to revert to the old site setup (and likely pay the increased monthly fee to the internet provider for storing extra emails). Typical on Bladeforums.com - Blues threatens the paying customer that he can and will revoke his ability to access the forums (which the customer paid $35 for), just because Blues - "That's considerably snarkier than called for. If that's your attitude, I'll be happy to send Spark the cost of your membership when you leave." This was in response to - kod- "Similarly, it's solely up to the customers of the site whether to continue paying for the service.I am more than happy to volunteer my time to help solve a basic technical problem if the suggestions given so far don't work for some reason.If the owner is simply unwilling, I'll be voting with my wallet." Which is just stating the truth. (Blues is in this case goading the customer, hoping that they will say something to or about him so that Blues can enforce the Bladeforums rule "Abuse to Staff (Sassin' the Mods) - 40 points Major Spam / Trolling - instant ban" This rule allows Blues to immediately ban the paying customer.) -> In this case they relented and many customers then kissed up to "Blues" for fixing it. Typical bully and mob behavior. When there is a problem, even a big problem causing a potential business shutdown, sit back and don't say anything hoping that someone else bring it up. (shoot the messenger...) Then when the bully does relent and fix it praise them so that you remain on their good side. Remember - in this case all the owner "Sparks" - Kevin Schlossberg had to do was revert to the way the system worked before... That is the climate on Bladeforums.com right now. [Since kod has both Gold and Basic member under his name, that means that he had to pay first for the Basic $10 and found that he couldn't send enough messages to do anything, so he paid for Gold $35. So that's $45 - all in one year. This is pretty common on Bladeforums It appears that onestopknifeshop.com is part of the same business. Oh- and try to search them online for Google Reviews. ("google reviews one stop knife shop louisville ky") You'll find that you'll get Heimerdinger Cutlery Company" - Shady ]