Kikkerland Travel Chopsticks

I'm still trying to open these things! It doesn't look like I will be using them at all. The little push buttons are hard to push in and even when I get them to go down I am unable to pull them to get them to telescope out. Several people here have been trying to get them open for the past couple of hours and we still can't get them to telescope out which makes them pretty much worthless because I'm sure if we do get them open and I shut them again I will be right back to the same problem.