And that's exactly why I didn't open them.
Besides preferences doesn't really correlate to expectations anyways.
You buy to your preferences, there's no expecting a knife to fit them.
If you prefer a certain performance, action, and overall level of quality, those are actual expectations.
Maybe everyone is really just saying that they expect to get what they ordered ?
Well, I guess I could have worded it differently. I am referring to what the market has to offer, there are always compromises in the knife market. Even if a person has one custom made to meet their demands, you still may have to compromise.