It wouldn’t for me. I skip buying ridiculous products and search elsewhere. Also tend to contact the company if a product is not what I suspect it to be, or if it is not available.Nothing strange about that. It's called marketing and it works.
If more people do that, marketing would start listening to the consumers.
Also
I wondered how to get flint grit elsewere. Look what I found (in NL). multi-quartz
Do they sell small stones like this at DIY /building shops in the US? It’s used for granito flooring en in 3 different sizes available.