Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!amdcad!mike From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Knife ads Message-ID: <5633@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:05:54 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.5633 Posted: Thu Oct 31 23:05:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 05:47:03 EST References: <858@cvl.UUCP> <518@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker) Distribution: net Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 25 Just my 2 bits worth on the "Malin M-15" debate. 1 bit: Harbor Freight Salvage who, I have had pleasant experiences with in the past is selling a knife that looks exactly like the one in the Malin ads, for $3.95. HFS is a good company and generally gives you things at half what they're worth, but I wouldn't want a knife that was worth $7.90 even for only $3.95. It just has to be a piece of shit. 2 bit: They were selling the same knife on telephone action ( the one thing that makes me most embarrased to say I'm from San Jose ) I like to watch it because the announcer is such a critter. Anyway, i've always wondered hoe their prices compare. Everything they sell is off-brand so can't be compared, so you say, how much the Malin knife? "Every hand that goes up, every call that comes in, just $9.95" And they didn't bother to bid it up to $30 before doing the world this big favor. Mike