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Ah, but they have to flatten it in order to test it. Otherwise the would not know if they had a stone worthy of honing. (Forgot to quote Vasilis regarding buying an unflattened sample).

I'd like...

I may also be wrong, however I doubt their prices are the result of a monopoly.

I believe their prices are subject to the time taken to locate, extract, transport, cut, flatten and then test the...