What even!?

As you know Jami from our discussions, I can’t work out what bothers me the most. Is it unscrupulous, poorly self-educated and downright liars of sellers who are at fault or is it the customers? Are the customers the ones who are at fault because they fall into this trap of “buying a lifestyle of twinkles and fairies” by purchasing polished lemurian pieces at £500 each, is it the customers who believe that bullshit narrative of “my seller said they are ethical so I believe them with no proof whatsoever” who are at fault for perpetuating this nonsense within the crystal community. Ok rant over!

I think you raise an interesting discussion point regarding ‘buyer responsibility’. There are an awful lot of vulnerable people out there who are very easy to ‘fool’. There are also a lot of people who aren’t interested in the geological foundation of crystals and minerals, so again, are easy to ‘fool’. I can’t help but feel it is actually down to sellers to be honest. I will also say there are a lot of ‘ignorant’ sellers who will have been sold their fake named crystal but not have a clue that they’ve been fooled! They simply pass the lies on to their customers and remain blissfully unaware of the lies they’re perpetuating. But I’m sure they’ll tell their customers how ‘ethical’ they are.

I think this is exactly my point hun, if you were to buy a car, a tv, a house etc would you just blindly believe what the seller is telling you or would you actually do some research for yourself. Equally as a seller, why are you just repeating what your supplier has told you without doing some research for the benefit of your customers? The great Sphalerite selling issue is a classic example of this.