We are. And yet we're still more fortunate than most. By making the effort to find our way here, we now have access to SOME Busse family knives at factory pricing. Others either forgo the privilege of owning the world's finest hard-use knives altogether or pay secondary market prices to acquire them.

For what it's worth, I agree with the concerns I've heard about the way the test teams were constructed. Rather than structuring the teams to reward an elite group of trade show attendees, I would have have sought out individuals who obviously use and test their knives. They aren't that difficult to find. The boards are loaded with them. I would then have contracted with those individuals to pre-test the knives. And I'd have done it on the down low so as not to stir up customer envy.