Wow is that all? He's a business man? Let me ask you what is it about your favorite retailer do for you? Do they give you preferential treatment, discounts they wouldn't anybody else? Ya I'm a Ryky guy. If you guys can actually stomach this story maybe we can talk. I went to Ryky after I basically got laughed out of another retailer for not being able to afford his wares. So I saved up for another month just doing research on Google. I watched all his videos but I also watched the videos from Steve from CKTG if you know those. I settled on a KS. Two hours after I, get an email from Ryky, we talked for 4 hours that night I believe, 1 of it was spent on him trying to convince me to downgrade from the KS to a SS Kato that he would've sold me for $250. I said no he kept asking why would I buy a knife, I know completely nothing about? So I ended up sticking with KS and ya, he was right. We became friends, but my ground rules were we don't talk about knives. We had and still have a lot of common things we're going thru so we talk about where we're at in life, what we need to do to improve, mainly me I admit, that was almost 4 years ago and yeah, I make sure I buy something from him at least once every year as thank you. So I don't get in his business, I don't know his business. I'll tell you who I bought the most things from this year, Sugi. 8 handles and 3 knives with Jo's handles. Why, because I like going thru Sugis site, it's addictive! And for the reason he takes my money, informs me of anything irregular from my purchases and emails me and he thanks me. That's all. I expect no discounts from him as a matter of fact, I have offered to pay extra to cover for the fact I think I'm bothering him. He doesn't email me to any of his secret new arrivals unless he doesn't have one, I like everything he posts on FB. So am I a Sugi guy? Look I know I did wrong, but if we could move past that maybe you might see me the way I'm trying to present myself. Thank you for reading this. Gnite.