Trollbeads Spring 2012 release sneak peek - all pics!

..i´m lucky, that the new green armadillo are changed colour to the tourquise one..huff!...very pretty darker green..

I see a few I will need to have! Like the cream dillos and brown dotty bead (I'm sure they named it something better lol)

stephenie wrote:

HunnyBunny wrote:Wow, more photos, thank you!! The beads look lovely and can't wait to see them all on Friday.

I found out today that gold and gold/silver beads are going up dramatically, not just a little. Happy Universe is currently selling for just under $500 here. Once the price rise kicks in, it will cost over $800, yes, over eight hundred dollars!! I dread to think how much gold beads will cost! It's going to be much harder if not impossible to own gold/silver and gold beads after this Friday.

In which case I'm going to make a prediction that there will be no new gold beads, or at least no more new gold/silver ones, as no one will be able to afford them. The gold/silver beads have such a tiny amount of gold on them for the price.

Yes, very few people will be able to afford them. Only the rich & wealthy... which means they'll only have to make 10 of each gold bead to satisfy the market. LOL

I really am glad that I have my G/S beads & Gold beads already. I did buy the gold Cherub before this price increase, although I have since heard that it is only increasing by $50 ($856 to just over $900), where as other beads with less weight are creeping up $400 - 500 a piece... it makes no sense to me unless there is extra detailing/finishing involved in some of the gold beads. (Are wages increasing that fast in China??? lol) I've heard that the new Gold Whorl is supposed to go up quite a bit too, but can't remember the dollar amount.

rainyday wrote:

stephenie wrote:

HunnyBunny wrote:
I found out today that gold and gold/silver beads are going up dramatically, not just a little. Happy Universe is currently selling for just under $500 here. Once the price rise kicks in, it will cost over $800, yes, over eight hundred dollars!! I dread to think how much gold beads will cost! It's going to be much harder if not impossible to own gold/silver and gold beads after this Friday.

In which case I'm going to make a prediction that there will be no new gold beads, or at least no more new gold/silver ones, as no one will be able to afford them. The gold/silver beads have such a tiny amount of gold on them for the price.

Yes, very few people will be able to afford them. Only the rich & wealthy... which means they'll only have to make 10 of each gold bead to satisfy the market. LOL

I really am glad that I have my G/S beads & Gold beads already. I did buy the gold Cherub before this price increase, although I have since heard that it is only increasing by $50 ($856 to just over $900), where as other beads with less weight are creeping up $400 - 500 a piece... it makes no sense to me unless there is extra detailing/finishing involved in some of the gold beads. (Are wages increasing that fast in China??? lol) I've heard that the new Gold Whorl is supposed to go up quite a bit too, but can't remember the dollar amount.

Actually, they are. When we were in China in October, there were stories in the English language paper about farmers having to pay their workers triple what they were making the year before. It's probably still not very much, but a huge increase relatively.

On the other hand, Troll's gold has always seemed to be way over-priced.