Skelly Strix Damascus – Update / Help

WARNING: This is what I feel is a long post and read… if you don't have time I don't blame you. But if you have time to read through and chime in, I would appreciate it greatly.

This is an update to my previous post below. Also, if there's somewhere else I should post this instead/also, please let me know.

Previous post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/knifeclub/comments/1r8df4l/comment/o64uoo2/

So update, Greg declined to help with this since he determined I damaged the knife after inspecting it.

Context of MY side of what happened when I first received the knife:

• Knife arrived at my house around 3:55 PM, mom was work from home, so we met with UPS guy. Tracking 1ZW946340393667612
• She leaves it near the front door until I get home from work, maybe around 5 PM
• I get home and take the box to my room to open
• I do NOT take a video of me opening the box. I normally do this for used expensive knives, but since this one was brand new, I didn't think of it. Huge mistake #1 on my part
• I take the strix out and immediately take the pictures from post one (the full body pictures at least)
• I open and close it a couple of times. Thumb flick, reverse flick, front flipper.
• I notice some markings on the blade, so I try to wipe it off with a new microfiber cloth
• That doesn't work, so I take pictures and e-mail Greg at 5:22 PM (that's the beginning of our conversation regarding the damaged knife in the e-mail. I also post on the subreddit (previous post)

Almost all of our details are in our e-mail exchange below:

This link is easier to read the worded e-mails: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTsgOLYHk1SFipLGY8koheDl7Ggxwled/view?usp=drive_link

This link is easier to see the pictures we sent eachother:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16TgeTTaI-QW2Zb4jUhX_7VCEsdD-Eg1b/view?usp=drive_link

His e-mails that say it wouldn't happen in stock config without disassembly and stuff doesn't make sense to me, since I literally just opened and closed the knife when I got it the first time, and didn't even cut paper with it because I saw the markings before I even had a chance to.

I also tried to see how much lateral force it took for the knife to touch the handle in this video, when i received the knife back today:

(There is an echo though so you can mute if you'd like, unsure why that was happening. It's literally me showing how I reverse flick, where i would have "damaged" the knife)

https://imgur.com/a/sparrow-strix-received-back-3-2-2026-YxNfRdb

The last e-mail I wrote was earlier today, after receiving the knife back, asking one more time for him to help me.

I'm currently debating on just doing a charge back or selling the knife to hopefully get my money back.