As a favor to a family friend a sat through her daughter's sales pitch on CutCo knives last night. While they seem like great knives, I have no interest in paying $900 for kitchen knives (just not my deal).

But they have some interesting sporting knives. A locking 2 3/4 inch blade folding pocket knife and some 4 inch fixed-blade knives. Anyone used one and if so have some weights for the knives? What seems awesome is that besides the great quality of the knife you can send it back for free sharpening (you must pay shipping though). I don't expect them to be remotely UL, especially concerned about the weight of the 4 inch blade knives.

Here is the webaddress for their sporting knife page:
http://www.cutco.com/products/thumbnail.jsp?category=70

Ahh, I was a Cutco salesman back in my first year of college, in pre-internet days. If you know her well, you might want to hint at her not to waste too much effort on her endeavor...isn't direct in-home sales nearly a dead thing? Well, thought it was, until I had a vacuum cleaner salesman last year. After I turned down the $3000 price, the salesman quickly lowered down to $2,200. Well, still too high for me...of course I found them on new on eBay for about $450 after the salesperson left. If you see a Cutco you want, look on there. They might cut out the middle man of selling in a store, but that price goes to commissions of an office manager, district manager, and area manager. If she knows her manager well enough, I bet she can come down to about 1/2 that price on her knives. :)

I've got different odds and ends of Cutco items to this day, hunting knives, a homemaker set, cookware, etc... I'm not a knife guy, so I use one of their basic pocket knives in my backpacking kit, the edge on any of them hasn't worn out for yet, no more than I use them. I think they quit making a lot of their sporting knives, so they are becoming more collectible. That's about all I know, after I lose the rest of them or have more stolen, I suppose I'll have to look into other brands' features and specs.

Edited by Coldspring on 06/25/2010 11:40:29 MDT.

" If you know her well, you might want to hint at her not to waste too much effort on her endeavor"

My sister is still waiting on her first check from selling Cutco Knives. That was 4 or 5 years ago...

Can't say it always operated in that manner (or if it still does), but they never would pay her.