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Original Message: Re: "White Buffalo Turquoise" - A marketing name

Hi Russ,
These are very interesting dialogues—to be sure—but they do not address, or barely address the issue we are facing here: that a Chinese product (not a supposedly rare material from Nevada, supposedly used by Native Americans) is being mass-marketed as "white turquoise."
As long as they are discussing an American mineral, they are not discussing a significant and broader Chinese scam..., I mean "marketing ploy." To be sure, there are elements of parallelism. Perhaps the Chinese makers got the idea from the NA situation (since the selling of howlite as "turquoise" [of any type or variety] has been going on for as long as I've been around).
I. for one, am glad that here at BC.N we mostly speak/write in complete sentences. Some of the mineral dialogue was hard to follow, and verging on being too jargonistic. "Help" that I have to think about too hard or for too long, is not much "help." I don't think these guys have the Big Picture, but I also don't think they claim to have it.
Jamey
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All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

Original Message: Re: "White Buffalo Turquoise" - A marketing name
Hi Russ, These are very interesting dialogues—to be sure—but they do not address, or barely address the issue we are facing here: that a Chinese product (not a supposedly rare material from Nevada, supposedly used by Native Americans) is being mass-marketed as "white turquoise." As long as they are discussing an American mineral, they are not discussing a significant and broader Chinese scam..., I mean "marketing ploy." To be sure, there are elements of parallelism. Perhaps the Chinese makers got the idea from the NA situation (since the selling of howlite as "turquoise" [of any type or variety] has been going on for as long as I've been around). I. for one, am glad that here at BC.N we mostly speak/write in complete sentences. Some of the mineral dialogue was hard to follow, and verging on being too jargonistic. "Help" that I have to think about too hard or for too long, is not much "help." I don't think these guys have the Big Picture, but I also don't think they claim to have it. Jamey Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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