Vintage GONON-GIRONDE France Chef's Oyster/Clam Knife

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Please be SURE to visit my Store for an even greater selection of excellent vintage cutlery and related items for the professional chef or serious amateur. Our store's inventory is searchable using the search field or may be browsed by clicking on categories, with each option found on the left side of the page. Remember, store items WON'T appear in ebay searches, so the only way to see them is to just click on the "Store" price-tag logo or on our store name. See some of the finest knives and other related goodies on ebay! Don't see it or can't find what you're looking for? Just email--we have THOUSANDS of knives but not enough time to post them all, so we may have what you need and we always take requests very seriously.

All images and descriptions are copyrighted, and we aggressively pursue legal remedy as well as ebay's rules against plagiarizing them--it's stealing, it's wrong, and you WILL be turned in to us by one of the legion of our loyal customers, who inevitably see your plagiarism and notify us about it. All items come from a smoke-free home with no pets unless otherwise indicated.

RETURN POLICY: Unless otherwise stated in our item's description, you may return this item for any reason. Your intention to return MUST be emailed to us within three days of receipt of your item, as determined by Delivery Confirmation posted on the USPS website. All returned items must be in the same, saleable and unused condition as when shipped, with all original packaging and/or with all tags attached where applicable. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS to this policy--sorry, but we've already been victimized by abusers of this system and of our trust. Buyer is responsible for shipping.

SHIPPING: Buyer pays $4.95 flat rate insured shipping anywhere in USA. We will do whatever we can to minimize your shipping costs on multiple purchases, and in most cases, combining multiple wins will save BIG, often shipping two or more items for the cost of one. In order to streamline the process, we will provide a flat, upfront shipping rate in our auctions whenever possible for all U.S. buyers. In most cases, the actual shipping cost will be lower than what we charge; this is the way we pay our teenage neighbor to pack and ship our ebay items (he keeps the difference). If you dislike this or find this unfair, PLEASE do not bid; we only want happy customers and it's our feeling that by no one should be able to claim dissatisfaction with this policy, since we're stating it up front. It's not an attempt to profit, simply the only way my elderly bones can continue to offer so many items. Please keep in mind, too, that our prices for shipping in USA always INCLUDE insurance unless otherwise stated (sorry, no exceptions to this.), and that we self-insure using our business policy. This benefits buyers as much as it does us, because if your parcel is lost or item badly damaged, we refund the cost of shipping as well as the cost of the item, which USPS Insurance does not. We usually ship on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but sometimes our teenage packaging guy gets to the P.O. a day or two late, so again, we ask you in advance to please forgive our humanity. Usually, we sell knives, not human organs for transplantation, so time really shouldn't be too critical, but if you have special needs, please email us prior to bidding. Items lost or damaged in transit require buyer to file affidavit for our insurance policy via a claim form similar to the U.S. Post Office or UPS insurance claim forms. I will gladly send you the forms necessary to file. If you're not in total agreement with us here or disagree for any reason, we urge you not to bid or buy.

INTERNATIONAL: Int'l shipping rates posted in our ads include a minimum $5.00 handling (sorry, even Canada, due to tedious Customs forms and Post Office procedures) to cost of actual shipping, with acceptable payment on international transactions in the form of paypal only, in accord with ebay's new rules taking effect October 1, 2008. International packages will be calculated on the basis of a MINIMUM ONE POUND weight. International packages cannot be insured and we cannot be held responsible for packages lost or damaged in transit (we pack very well, but shipping overseas is strictly at buyer's risk). IMPORTANT: If you wish your international shipment to be trackable, you MUST opt for the U.S. Post Office's Global Express Mail, and you MUST tell us this in advance of making payment. If you do not opt for Global Express Mail, we have no way at all of tracking the progress of your parcel.

We have NO control of your parcel once it has been shipped, and in our Post-9/11 world, your own nation's Customs may cause lengthy delays in delivery time. There is NOTHING we can do to circumvent your country's Customs policies and laws and we will not be held responsible for any problems caused you by Customs. If you're not in total agreement with us here or disagree for any reason, we urge you not to bid or buy.

LOCAL: We aren't set up to allow local pickup of ebay merchandise, so if you're in the Los Angeles area, please factor the cost of shipping into your bid strategy.

REGARDING FEEDBACK: It's our sincere belief that ebay's October, 2008 changes to the feedback system have rendered the whole idea of feedback somewhat silly, not to mention unfair. Because of those changes, we promise we won't be offended if you leave none at all if you're satisfied, but we sincerely hope you'll email us and let us know if you're dissatisfied for any reason to give us a chance to make it right if we can. Ebay now penalizes sellers if their detailed feedback ratings are anything less than perfect, so by all means feel free to disregard this part of the feedback system (it's actually a thinly-disguised means of imposing a serious fee hike on sellers, who are invariably human and imperfect.) If you MUST have feedback for your transaction, we'll be happy to reciprocate what you've posted for us; otherwise, we'll assume that you also find the endeavor mostly a hollow activity now.

PAYMENT: Payment must be received within ten (10) days of auction's close. We reserve the right to relist any item for which payment has not been received in 10 days. Visa / Mastercard/American Express/Discover gladly accepted via www.paypal.com, the only method of payment we may accept, pursuant to ebay's policy change, which takes effect on October 1, 2008.

ATTENTION HOTMAIL USERS!!! (and other web-based email users!) We FREQUENTLY have problems contacting buyers who use a hotmail email address, since the company recently shrunk the size of your allowable storage. Other web-based companies often filter our attempts to contact you with a spam filter. It is YOUR responsibility to maintain an address that is reachable at all times. If your email comes back to us 3 times, we will report the problem to ebay via a non-paying bidder alert.

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