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Re: Odd meteorite on Ebay-Earlier post

   I agree with Dean totally. I am a new collector, because of ebay and the
dealers auctioning meteorites there. I don't want to fall prey to those
scammers due to me being a newbee to the meteorite collecting world. I
depend on knowledgeable dealers like Dean and several others to keep those
kind of auctions in check. Some day I hope to learn everything there is to
know about meteorites and appreciate this lists knowledge very much as well.
    Keep up the great work..
      Troy Bell
-----Original Message-----
From: dean bessey <deanbessey@hotmail.com>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Monday, November 15, 1999 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: Odd meteorite on Ebay-Earlier post


>Whats bad, and >this doesn't apply to all dealers on this list, is that
most
>of the time you\>hear complaints about items on ebay, its from dealers.  I
>believe the\>dealers want to keep the dealing market as small as possible.
>Not too long >ago there was a big fiasco about a dealer overseas in the UK
>selling some >Mars material and Peekskill material.   He was trashed beyond
>belief on this >list <snip>
>>>
>This is so false and wrong that this comment does just as much damage to
the
>meteorite community as selling an obvious piece of weathered lava rock as a
>meteorite. Wither some list members like it or not eBay has become a major
>meteorite selling source. There are many new collectors (Myself included)
>that are only meteorite collectors because of eBay. The fact that
meteorites
>was sold on eBay even made it to CNN a couple months ago with the ZAG
>meteorite and water. One buyer of one of the Zags that I have auctioned off
>on eBay told me that he saw the water/ZAG story on CNN and CNN in their
>story told of different ways that ZAG was for sale - one of which was eBay.
>It was the first that my customer ever herd of eBay and some asking around
>to find out what eBay was finally led him to my auction where he is now a
>meteorite collector. As for the UK guy, I understand that he was breaking
>eBay selling rules and that is why he was blacklisted - not for his
>meteorites.
>The reason that eBay dealers are the first to try and keep eBay clean is
>because eBay is such an important part of the meteorite business (Like it
or
>not). Myself and several other eBay dealers have an interest in keeping the
>meteorites on eBay clean. After all if we are getting advertising on CNN we
>better. You can bet that if a meteorite forgery scandall hit eBay CNN would
>not mention it in their next meteorite story. To say that meteorite dealers
>want to keep others out by trying to keep scammers out of the business is
>totally wrong. More dealers is better for everybody. No one eBay seller
>keeps the hundreds of collectors coming back every day to see what
>meteorites are for sale on eBay. If there was only one dealer left there
>would be fewer buyers. We dont want the next CNN story about meteorites to
>be negative about false meteorites being auctioned off.
>The people who complain about false meteorites are doing the hobby and
>collectors a great service (albiet looking after there own interest of
>maintaining a safe and secure meteorite selling medium also).
>DEAN BESSEY
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