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That's about what I would expect from most any manufacturing company these days. They answer that way because they truly do not know what steel was used unless you can supply batch codes and so forth off the part (assuming there are any and they keep those records). But, what does 'high carbon' mean to them? Some railroad spikes are called high carbon when they are 1050. So, we might be talking 1050 or 1060 or maybe even something from the 4xxx or 9xxx series of steels. Again, I don't doubt that the bars will make passable knives but it would still be necessary to extensively test each and every bar if you wanted to be able to make the best possible knife from it....
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