Nothing to apologize for.

as long as you actually see a token (for either a soulstone or a soulstone fragment) anyone can buy them from a vendor and use them.

I believe the problem lately has been a rash of red soulstones with like for example 115 bushido stored on them (or any high amount of skill) I have noticed for sale on Lake Superior. Seems to me that people are trying to charge more for these stones to trick people into buying them, thinking they are getting something for nothing. On the same vendor one red soulstone was like 50k, but one red soulstone with the 115 bushido was priced 150k. Even though both are just decoration.