Quote Originally Posted by RusenBG View Post
Well this info i get , from observation ,as im also member of the forum . I speak , only from my observation and my point of view .
Anyway , i dont whant to argue , just i have unplaisant experience with 2 stones that i like and i could not get . Anyway , maybe its just my point of view , and bad luck .
I am happy that you are ok , with previous experiencess , with purchasing coticules .
Nothing against Bart , he is very helfull , just my experience was bad and i dont like , all about , coticules and purchasing them . Sorry .


You may have had a bad experience with coticule's and you are entitled to your own opinions.

However I must side with my friend Pieter on this one. Bart and Ardennes were not professionally linked in any way. He loves coticules and tested them and sent them back to Ardennes for Ardennes Coticule to sell and hasn't done so (as far as I know, the vault hasn't been updated in years) for a very long time.. Which is like any one us testing coticules and sending them back to the mine. Never were they auctioned off, or under the table sold off. Pieter was a long time member there. I think he would know a thing or two in that arena but I am not him, as such I cannot speak for him.

To say that coticule.be's vault is an advertising trick? or to say it's naive to think that coticule.be and Ardennes Coticule weren't professionally linked are pretty bold statements.

Where I'm from there's an expression we say. It goes "buck up or shut up" which basically means if you are saying something you better prove it/do it or the latter self explanatory part if you are unable to do so. I will leave you to to think about what I am implying here.

Secondly there are many retailers that sell coticule that you can see pictures of before purchasing. I'm sure Ardennes has thousands of stones and the cost to take photographs of every single stone would be astronomical. Not to mention time consuming when dealing with literally thousands of stones. Pictures are important to me also but you have no guarantee that a stone will be a good razor hone just from looking at it. You can only find that out by use.

I don't know where you get your facts from but I would like to know as I disagree with them whole heartedly.