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Originally Posted by Beestie
I just went on my favorite knife site. They carry everything.
But no Cutco knives. What's up with that? 
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Well, you could always look at the
Cutco website. The shears on the first page you see aren't cheap, but brother do they perform. Mine are eighteen years old and they are not merely in tiptop condition, they are freakin'
unchanged. We have to test these things for wear using cardboard strips. Cardboard is very mean to scissors by itself -- and we have to add a ten percent silica content to the cardboard just to get wear we can measure!
We deal factory-direct, no distributors, no anybody else -- and we reckon it the kind of product that takes a hands-on, one on one demonstration to really sell it, so it primarily goes through the sales force. Includin' such as me.
Classic, with all due respect, you ain't even seen what the stuff can do, let alone felt it at work. Cutco's something you have to feel.
UT, we have our methods.
We
have, after all, been selling Cutco on word of mouth since 1948. Vector Marketing becoming Cutco's sales arm in the early 1970s was because of its selling knowhow. Cutco makes 'em in its Olean NY factory, Vector sells 'em, Alcas Corp. owns both -- and Ka-Bar Knives besides.