I am very sad about this, they are going to leave me behind if they go in this direction.

I believe that Trollbeads are determent to increase it's market share in the world of charm bead sales. They are not necessarily trying to convert Pandora style bracelets owners, as they know that people have invested so much money into their bracelets, they just want to sell them Trollbeads...

Oddly enough, it keeps reminding me about the existence Pandora and other brands. There is a Pandora promo in town today - free leather bracelet if you spend £75. Shall I pop out and buy me some new Doras??? (No because I fancy one of those Chamelia bangles.)

To be honest, I made a big fuss about the cores to start with but I don't know why. I have loads of artisan beads with big cores. What I mind is the bigger beads and the price increases.

Fuzzyfeet wrote:I am very sad about this, they are going to leave me behind if they go in this direction.

Trolldog wrote:

Fuzzyfeet wrote:I am very sad about this, they are going to leave me behind if they go in this direction.

This is not what i want

Kathleen wrote:This is not what i want

with all the comments. To increase their market share they seem to be willing to lose their grandfathers direction. A house with a cracked foundation will surely fall in the end. I am very sad.

It's not what I want, but I have to say that I have found some beautiful UU's and I have given in. I much prefer a beautiful normal OOAK anyday, but the UU's are flooding the stores, leaving conventional ooaks in the dust. sad.

No problem for me ...I can live without new glass Trollbeads, as long as there are Artisan beads around. Can TB live without their best customers

I bought 2 ooaks at the UK convention last year that turned out to be bigger with larger cores, I wondered if they were Haitian beads that never got sent to the US but now I think they are universals. They are nice beads ( one is a beautiful hot pink dillo ) but they are much bigger than my other TBs and so don't get worn. I contacted Steffans and Fable about exchanging for a normal size one but apparantely that was not possible. One works with my pink empowerment set and as these beads don't work with normal TB for me it fits in .
I bought my empowerment set from the US a year before they were released in the UK and at half the price too! I was disappointed that they were so much bigger but as they are for such a good cause and I have the set they work as I keep them together.
That's my experience of large cored beads and needless to say I won't be buying any even if they were reasonable priced!

Nooooooooo If they really do this, I will have to hurry and buy the glass beads on my wish list very soon.

I'm wondering about the fall release...?

I do not buy UU so I do not encourage Trollbeads to make them.