Spud, it's like bringing a black powder 6 shooter to a battlefield where everyone else has assault rifles and machine guns. Sure you are going to get off a few shots, and likely do some damage, but there are better ways to go about it.
Xurons just make a cleaner cut, and closer cut to the part then the knock off brands do, as well they stay sharper longer. I had a pair of no name cutters and the cutting surface was toast on them in only about a year, and it was only cutting on plastic. The same Xuron ones I used for the better part of 10yrs, and other than the nicks out of them where I was cutting on something I shouldn't have been, I would probably still be using them.
For the 410A shears, $14CDN isn't all that bad, sure you can get discount ones for $8 or so, but if you are replacing them every 1-2yrs because they don't hold their edge, then it only takes to buy 2 of them to end up spending more than a set of Xurons, which seem to never dull.
Now the 2175 Pro Long nose shears are in a class by themselves....but even at $25 are a steal. I found out first hand how sharp they really are...first day I had the set I ended up driving them through one of my hands, luckily I am right handed and it was my left hand they went through (well not through...but almost), still hurt like a biotch!
I have both of their PE shears, both work well, their Pro series PE shears are really nice, and are even more pionty, so I am extra careful with them. I don't use them all the time however.....Eduard PE, yeah for sure, but some of the newer Hobby Boss and Trumpeter kits are coming with their PE sandwiched between 2 pieces of plastic, so you can't really use the shears on the, unless of course you take both sides of the plastic off, but then that defeats the purpose of the plastic in the first place!
The orange color of the grips also keep it from blending into the mess on the desk. 
