I was disappointed and somewhat embarrassed with the purchase of this knife set. I gave it to my husband as a Christmas gift after buying it online. Online, the knife set was advertised as being something like 90% off the original price- I bought the set for $9.99. (I bought it for my husband because I thought it would be a great set to replace the various mixed matched knives that he had put together as a set.) After opening the gift, my husband asked me how much I paid for it. I was reluctant to tell him, but he then informed me that it was a fairly cheap knife set and there was no way he could replace his current set with the Sabatier one- and he hoped I didn't pay a lot for it. It is a BASIC knife set that is probably worth exactly what I paid for it: $9.99.