So if you go there and you search by brand for Benchmade you will see the 3 most expensive items they have in stock are discontinued models that they have listed at prices significantly below MAP. Again I was new to Benchmade and this didn't set off the alarm bells it should have...I just thought I had found an Internet diamond in the rough. And you can definitely find mainstream places that discount Benchmades, Amazon almost always does and lots of places do like 15% of MAP. But these knives were discontinued, ie rare, and like 40% off MAP.
So, anyway, I ordered all three of these knives, not just because they were a great deal but because I was interested in all of them, especially the 2 gold class. Well my order status had not updated so I contacted them. The interaction did not leave me feeling confident. They said the order had shipped so they could not cancel it but they could not provide me with tracking. Ok...from there I did some research and what I found was...not good.
First if you search knifesilo.com in Google the first hit after their website is a lengthy thread about how they are a scam on one of the leading knife forums on the Internet. Then there are a bunch of hits to Reddit threads saying similar shit. I went back to their website and googled the two addresses they have listed...one in the UK one in FL. They are both residential addresses. Not warehouses, not store fronts. Just a street view of some house in the UK and some apartment looking place in FL. Ironically, this morning, they finally got back to me with tracking and they did send me something on April 2, from CA, that is supposed to arrive here today. So I will check back in when I get the package. Other people in similar situations have gotten the wrong model, the wrong brand or even things that were not knives. Like clothing.