01-21-2010, 11:35 AM
I agree with Daz...We can't very reasonably ascribe motive or intentions to Ken either way because none of us truly knows the reasons for his repeated disappearances (aside from his reports). Maybe he is a mostly honest guy with really bad luck, or maybe he is a bad guy with periods of guilt and conscience. Maybe it's a mix. We don't really know. But the fact that he does continually return suggests he isn't wholly evil.In my experience, aside from one very long wait time (over a year, during one disappearance, back when he was on eBay), things went very well. He was very friendly and delivered on everything that I ordered, including two custom gloves (five gloves total).I <b>do</b> critique Ken for having resumed some bad (risky) business practices after having even one instance of problems. He said initially after the first incident that he would just fill outstanding orders, then that he would only sell gloves after they were built (this was a good plan in my opinion). But then he did some "final runs", taking pre-orders before gloves were built, which always lead to problems like these...My personal feeling is that Ken is a pretty honest guy but has some reliability issues and has made bad business decisions in light of those issues.My only question is: how many glove builders will it take in the history of the universe for all them to finally <b>stop taking pre-orders (with money) on unbuilt gloves</b>? It's a really simple notion, and it solves almost all of these types of problems...