New Online knife shop just opened

[Soen]

I suspect others here got the same email, for the grand opening of this site:

http://www.shopginga.com

I can only think its either affiliated with the Japancentre or Bluewayjapan given that they are the only two knife related folks that have this address, but might be completely unrelated.

[thombrogan]

Thanks for the link, Soen! Other than the name "Ginga," I can't see anything there that makes me think of JKI, but every store that sells waterstones and/or Japanese-style knives is good in my book.

[wsf]

Consensus on another forum is that knifeforums.com sold email addresses to this guy. Nothing illegal about that, just annoying. knifeforums.com, you may have noticed, is the site that takes 6 seconds to load a page because of all the ads it's serving.

[Boondocker]

Yeah I wasn't thrilled to be getting junk email while I was working yesterday, guess I need to go delete my KF profile seeing as I never post there anyways

[Soen]

I don't have a KF account, very odd

[chinacats]

I have a KF account and no email, but my understanding was that it may have been people on their mailing list...

[antonio_luiz]

I'm a mod on KF and this is the first time I've heard of this new site or of KF forwarding an email list to another site - I don't believe it happened that way. The only marketing emails I get are from sites that I've signed up to for newsletters

Will check up on it.

[antonio_luiz]

Consensus on another forum is that knifeforums.com sold email addresses to this guy. Nothing illegal about that, just annoying. knifeforums.com, you may have noticed, is the site that takes 6 seconds to load a page because of all the ads it's serving.

The consensus from that 'other' Forum is in error and I respectfully request that you please stop propagating this lie.

Knifeforums is now Owned by F & W Media (Blade Magazine) and they have said over and over that they will never sell the e-mails.

BTW - Being an old salesman I don't have a problem with advertising - but I can understand your frustration at the time it can take to load and refresh web pages. However it isn't solely due to the ads - I have similar problems with another site that doesn't have any ads.

Regards
Antonio

[Soen]

I don't have a KF account, very odd

As I said above. This is pretty conclusive for me KF has nothing to do with it.

[dglevy]

....BTW - Being an old salesman I don't have a problem with advertising - but I can understand your frustration at the time it can take to load and refresh web pages. However it isn't solely due to the ads - I have similar problems with another site that doesn't have any ads.

i'm an IT guy. my impression is that KF is slow not b/c of the ads. it looks like their server is constantly bogged down. that's my guess. not to slam them. i like the forum, but it has to have one of the slowest servers i've seen. it's quite annoying. i would visit more often otherwise.