Jambiya hilted Koummya

[TVV]

Ward has a good point here. Sometimes we see threads with questions about identification, only to later see the items put on eBay. When this happens, I believe most of us here are left feeling that our knowledge and desire to help have been abused.
To avoid this, one can just make it clear before hand that the item may be soon for sale. This way the intentions are clear.
Of course, it can always happen to anyone to decide to part with an item discussed here at some point in the future. So I do not think there should be a rule that items discussed here should never be put for sale or swap. What really hurts is when immediately after the discussion, once all the possible information from this forum has been gathered, we see the sword or dagger on eBay. In other words, when it becomes obvious that the interest of the poster was only in selling the item.
In your case, Gav, I actually appreciate it that you put the item here and gave all of us a first chance at it. I am sure you were not trying to use the forum as a sales platform, but as I wrote earlier - when one has intentions of disposing of something, making those intentions clear from the beginning is the best and honest way to go.
Regards,
Teodor

[Gavin Nugent]

Thanks Teodor, I will be sure to make all intentions clear for future postings.

regards

Gav

[RSWORD]

My recommendation would be to start the post in the swap forum and state that you would like to sell the object but first learn a bit more about it before establishing a price. That way, anyone that feels comfortable sharing information about the piece can do so and you accomplish both learning about the piece as well as providing the forum community first dibs which is always appreciated.

[Gavin Nugent]

Originally Posted by RSWORD

My recommendation would be to start the post in the swap forum and state that you would like to sell the object but first learn a bit more about it before establishing a price. That way, anyone that feels comfortable sharing information about the piece can do so and you accomplish both learning about the piece as well as providing the forum community first dibs which is always appreciated.

Thanks Rick, very well put, I will try this in future as there are a another half dozen items yet to leave my possesion to make way for my first love, Chinese weaponry.

thanks

Gav

[Gavin Nugent]

After a little more digging, I may even be inclined to call it a Jile from the Afar tribe/s.

Any thoughts.

[Andrew]

If you are the seller of an item or have any financial or personal relationship with the seller of an item which, to the most paranoid among us, could constitute a conflict of interest, then any post you initiate about such item belongs in the swap forum. If your only interest or connection is as a potential bidder or buyer of the item, this restriction does not apply, however, you agree to hold all forum members acting in good faith harmless, should you base any purchase decision upon information from such a discussion.

If someone else has initiated discussion on any item for which the preceding paragraph applies in your case, you may reply to and participate in the discussion, but must in each such reply include a statement of your actual or potential commercial interest in the item.

There is no enforceable external legal constraint against posting an object for discussion in a forum such as ours and later deciding to sell the item and posting a link to the discussion in the forums. However, if a forum member does this without having received the permission of the authors of the relevant posts in advance for such commercial use of their remarks, this constitutes grounds for cancellation of the offender's forum registration.

Gav, please read the rules thread again.