Looking to get your sword identified? I say "Best avoid SFI".
Beware of Sword Forum International; Although many of the members are non-affiliated and helpful, many more are grouped in little "Do not argue with us" gangs and most are out to make a buck off unsuspecting sword owners who go there for identifications.
I have proof, a screen grab of an internal SFI email between one of their "respected" members, one Ian Knight of Brighton, AKA swords_of_honour (yeh right - Ian Knight sells Indian swords as English), and someone I had a business arrangement with (a partnership to buy some French swords). This respected SFI member used the Sword Forum International mail system to approach this business partner of mine to try and get them to renage on our agreement, claiming I was not ethical! Claiming I had a bad reputation on SFI (I was not one of the little gang and I did my best to help others unselfishly).
What most of the members of the antqiues section of SFI do is a) down play a particular sword on the public forums and then b) make a "generous" offer to the poor unsuspecting sword owner abusing SFI's email system. When you catch the little buggers out and provide a screen shot of their email to prove it, what do they say? Why, they say "The internal emails are private and copyrighted, so you should not be doing this! A bit like religions, which is what these jokers think they are, where the BS pundits say you can not ask where God came from because that is not allowed, then go to say they are acting in God's name and doing nothing wrong. Mark McMorrow, the un-god like owner of Sword Fantasies & Incest dodges all of this by hiding his email addresses and not replying when you find them, like a common thief is prone to doing when faced with the facts!
Beware of Sword Forum International; Although many of the members are non-affiliated and helpful, many more are grouped in little "Do not argue with us" gangs and most are out to make a buck off unsuspecting sword owners who go there for identifications.
I have proof, a screen grab of an internal SFI email between one of their "respected" members, one Ian Knight of Brighton, AKA swords_of_honour (yeh right - Ian Knight sells Indian swords as English), and someone I had a business arrangement with (a partnership to buy some French swords). This respected SFI member used the Sword Forum International mail system to approach this business partner of mine to try and get them to renage on our agreement, claiming I was not ethical! Claiming I had a bad reputation on SFI (I was not one of the little gang and I did my best to help others unselfishly).
What most of the members of the antqiues section of SFI do is a) down play a particular sword on the public forums and then b) make a "generous" offer to the poor unsuspecting sword owner abusing SFI's email system. When you catch the little buggers out and provide a screen shot of their email to prove it, what do they say? Why, they say "The internal emails are private and copyrighted, so you should not be doing this! A bit like religions, which is what these jokers think they are, where the BS pundits say you can not ask where God came from because that is not allowed, then go to say they are acting in God's name and doing nothing wrong. Mark McMorrow, the un-god like owner of Sword Fantasies & Incest dodges all of this by hiding his email addresses and not replying when you find them, like a common thief is prone to doing when faced with the facts!
