Steve, floating tenon joinery works well. The Beadlock design allows for more glue surfaces than a plain tenon, so it should be stronger in theory. I am too cheap to spend the money for a set up like this. If I was building a project that required floating tenons I would make my own. Rout out the mortise with a plunge bit, then cut a tenon to fit it using a round over or bull nose bit to shape the ends into an oval. It doesn't get much easier than that. A production shop using many of these connections would profit from having the Beadlock items, home use it seems too expensive to me.
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Mike
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