By coincidence, I once stumbled upon the production of an episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives and I saw Guy screaming at someone on the phone like an unhinged lunatic. Maybe someone hurt his dog and it was warranted, but I kind of doubt it.
I had a situation once where my stuff got stuck in German customs coming from Japan (for jeans though), and I had to prove all sorts of stuff. I had to show PayPal/credit card statements--realistically, I just made a bunch of stuff up and they eventually released it.
I imagine the process in NL...
they definitely jacked up prices on some of the knives i'd been looking at to compensate for the sale.
can't knock the hustle and it's still a few bucks off the original prices though.
just here to look around, started buying non-big brand japanese knives roughly 10 years ago and am recently getting more into the high end of things :)
mostly here for the b/s/t!