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From: cas@cvl.UUCP (Cliff Shaffer)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Knife ads
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 16:24:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 16:24:13 1985
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Recently in the Washington Post Magazine and through direct-junk-mail,
I have seen ads for the "MALIN M-15 Survival Knife."
They sell for $5 plus $2 shipping/handling per knife.
They have a compass in the butt of the handle,
a bunch of things like fish hooks and a cable saw in the (hollow) handle,
a sheathe and a sharpening stone.
The blade is made of "420 molecular stainless" whatever that is.
I have seen what LOOK like identical knives in either the REI or EMS cataloge
(I forget which) for just under $40.
The ad claims that it is an advertising campaign - you have probably seen
the type.

Does anyone know anything about this (beyond having seen the ad)?
My cataloge does not use the name "MALIN M-15"; has anyone heard of it?
The most suspicious thing is the name and address of the company.
It is "A & C" at a PO box in Hicksville, New York.
I think that this is another reincarnation of the infamous
Abernathy & however, alias Gem Collectors International, alias
Cheeselovers International (or some such) alias whoever it was
who I bought a super-cheap "UDS computer telephone" from a few years ago.
There was a discussion about them in net.consumers a year or so ago.
They are usually a junk dealer; worse than that, I had to threaten them
with the postal authorities before they would come up with the phone.

	Cliff Shaffer
	...cvl!cas