Originally Posted by
eKretz
That's all fine and dandy but it doesn't alter the vendor's rep one way or the other, just gives other members a heads-up. I'll reiterate that if the knowledge is already there, why should everyone have to go through the process of purchasing a stone that isn't to the density spec they think it is when someone could let us know it's not to spec right from the get-go.
IMO it's not cool to let other people make the same mistake, and wait for them to go through that and "connect the dots" if you have already connected them.
In the OP it is pretty plain that the vendor is selling stones that do not meet the advertised spec; it's not the case here that the OP just got a stone that was accidentally out of spec. In such a case I would agree with the no-name approach. But when he says that he is having a hard time finding a stone to the proper spec - that tells me that the unnamed original vendor doesn't have any stones that are to the advertised S.G. spec, or the O.P. would just have returned the first stone or stones and gotten replacements that were to spec.
In that case there is no reason to not let people know who it is, because it's not a case of a lazy or incompetent employee making a mistake.