Sounds like BCN has a new myrtre. As I mentioned in a related post,"beads arn't a power trip"...I came into this hobby/lifestyle as a complete idoit...I had collecting thrusted upon me,not a choice I made to become a collector....I remember the first time I finally posted what I thought was a very ancient bead...(it looked just like the photo in so and so's book) so I knew it was real...
NOT..So when these bead housewife's at BCN told me it was fake....I knew they must be fools. In my mind I questioned their expertise...
I looked far and wide to find a way to descredit them,in MY mind....
I finally started researching beads in ernest.What a difference that made. I have learned to value the advice here at BCN. And insted of using these folks for the bottom line on a bead...I found their advise to be a point to start from, not the end of my search....thats being lazy...Remember..relax and enjoy their company, you won't find this kind of help for free anywhere else in the world....
You say yor just going to continue to enjoy your beads....It doesn't seem to me that your enjoying your beads. You are using this forum for boosting your ego..just look at all your post her....I cant speak for the others here at BCN but for the last few weeks all I see here on this forum is you. Look at me look at me look at me...what's this...whats this and then,...you guy's are full of ----....I have found that if your question asked is too elementry or for boosting your ego, no one answers....some things we should already know if we're really studing beads. So I have learned how ask a question that helps lead me to the path where my research can start...And I still foul up and hear...You asked the same question last year....don't you remember???????
But The more I learn...the less I fall over my own words...
I quess the bottom line here is..BCN..love it or leave it....