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When I moved down to Georgia, I was disappointed at the lack of good cutlery stores in my area. The only place to get a quality knife was at the local shooting range, and 2 stores that served the Fort Benning, GA. One of them was a U.S. Cavalry store. In the beginning I was pleased with the selection as they often brought in stuff not normally found in their catalogue.As far as prices went, they were also reasonable. Shortly afterwards, I noticed that they were overpricing their knives sometimes well above the MSRP, for example: EDI Genesis 1, bead blast for $189.99, CRKT M16-13Z (ZYTEL) for $79.99, etc... When I asked why they priced them so high, the ASSISTANT STORE MANAGER told me that knives like the EDI were collector peices as EDI had gone out of business. I said that was ridiculous and asked to speak to their store manager and was told to come back the next day. When I did, I arrived with a copy of a magazine which displayed an ad from EDI for the knife with the MSRP. The manager told me that this was the way their buyer priced the knife. I politely said thank you and left the store. For a while I kept hearing complaints aboutm the same store from several soldiers at Fort Benning who were also knife enthusiasts and one of them even wrote a letter to U.S.Cav's HQ in Kentucky and never heard from them. Eventually, the store closed it's doors and is no longer operating in Georgia. I also wrote a letter to their HQ and never heard from them. This was about 2 months ago.
[This message has been edited by el cid (edited 03-12-2001).]
[This message has been edited by el cid (edited 03-12-2001).]
