Azeztulite

It is not the name of a mineral, but rather the TRADEMARKED made up name used to scam people all over the world into paying rediculous prices for a material that makes up 12% of the entire earth’s crust!

That’s right…Azeztulite is Quartz. Plain, ordinary Quartz. Get this, the material sold by the company that coined the name is Quartz that you couldn’t normally even give away. Stuff that people don’t even pick up when they are out mineral collecting.

It is truly horrible. The company who started the scam are hitting multiple people! First off, the people who are buying it directly from them. You can be sure that a large amount of these first level sales are to people who fancy themselves eBay dealers and metaphysical store owners. Then, the prices are raised even higher (and the original company already sells the stuff for asine prices) and the items are moved on down the line to the metaphysical buyer. By this time, the price of a clear faceted Quartz in a simple setting will set you back around $70.00. Well, the same faceted Quartz in a simple setting will cost you no more than $10.00 from most dealers, less than half that when buying in bulk. So, the first company buys these things for around $5.00;sells them to some unknowledgeable eBay dealer for $35.00 and poor ol’ you shells out $70.00 for this thing.

It gets worse now…

Dealers who are smarter than the metaphysical dealers have found that there are plenty of people with more money than smarts and started selling plain polished Quartz from Brazil as Azeztulite. Simple Quartz that might sell for around $15-$20 will sell for nearly three times that amount when sold as Azeztulite! They are selling material by the Kilo, by the TON!

Well, we have established just what Azeztulite is…plain ol’ simple common Quartz.
We have also showed you just why the name was created to bump the prices of this worthless item into a very profitable item.

I need to explain why they came up with the name Azeztulite. Well, the company that came up with this colorful myth state that this material was named as such after contact with the alien race of “Azez”. The material is commonly said to come from North Carolina and Vermont. Well, guess what? There is not a single country in the world that doesn’t have Quartz; save for maybe Malta and Nauru. Vatican City anyone?

But why, how and when did them come up with this foolishness?

There were multiple sources of information I gathered over the past few years which led up to the formation of Azeztulite.

The first one was a comical story, involving a field collector who was prospecting out in the far northwest part of America. He found some small clear shards of material he believed to be Phenakite. Well, nobody buys Phenakite shards except for Metaphysical dealers, so he took these shards of mineral to one of the largest metaphysical selling outfits. Well, they bought the material from this field collector as Phenakite and started selling the material as such. After a couple months our inquisitve field collector gets the results back from the lab that tested this material – it turned out to be a clear feldspar. So he contacted Nirvana and Terra and told them of the mistake. Well, what did they do about all that Feldspar sold as Phenakite?

In a completely different setting I was chatting with one of my Metaphysical dealer friends and educating her on some of the fake junk she was buying, like colored glass as Obsidian and white moldavite. She then told me about this Phenakite she had bought from this company that was not actually Phenakite but a brand new mineral called Azeztulite! She was so excited that she got such a great deal…Azeztulite for the price of Phenakite shards (Sold by the gram no less) She immediatly wanted to order more of it. She gave me a sample of this material to keep and a few months later she gave me a piece of Azeztulite from her new shipment. The first piece she gave me;clear feldspar. The second piece;broken Quartz.

Is it possible that a company could take this faux pau and turn it into something that would make them a small fortune?

Click on some of these pictures to get a great overview of the fraud that is Azeztulite…

Below here check out these “Azeztulite” angels! They would sell for no more than $24.00 for the pair, retail, if you were lucky. But this person wants $140.00 for the pair…because…you know…they are “Azeztulite”!

How much is this worth as Quartz? Maybe $20.00…max!

Here is my buddy Crystalline Rainbow, showing the REAL DEAL material, from Robert Simmons, owner of some company called Heaven and Earth…

Unfortunatly, I don’t think Rob get’s a cut out of these sales…just some chump jumping on the Azeztulite bandwagon!

Oh, and just in case we ever run out of junk quartz from Vermont and North Carolina…and the millions of tons of Indian and Brazilian Quartz sold as such…well, here is a “new” find of Quartz!…er…I mean…Azeztulite! Woot!

And…ps…Azeztulite.com…now that’s funny!

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