[meteorite-list] Re: Meteor-doubtful (once more)

From: magellon <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:35 2004
Message-ID: <3E02B5E9.57C933E8_at_earthlink.net>

Hi,
One last kick!
I also do not condone emailing eBay sellers with threats.
It generally accomplishes nothing. (meteorite police?- what's that about? )
In this case, the seller was mad because no one else might bid and he was
going to be forced to buy it, himself. (pay fees)
That was when he posted his little tirade. (Dec-19-02 at 07:49:38 PST).
He should have been very happy to have greatly exceeded his $100.00 reserve
to $247.50, Right?
But he was very upset, "i really think that this will be the last thing i
sell on here (the first to)."
He probably blames the 'meteorite experts' for the fact that no one bid even
though he got a ton of emails.

However, it is one thing to give someone benefit of the doubt.
It is another to let them repeatedly lie to you and others, hoping it might
be true.
Meteorites do not blow up and burn down barns.
Neither are they hot for three weeks.
But you might say, "He's just repeating the story."
Even if you know nothing about meteorites, when the seller says," if you
collect this stuff, and just have to have it,
and cant wait till the auctions over, ill be happy to review cash offers sent
via e mail."
This is a wake up call saying that the seller is willing to cheat eBay out of
it's money, how far will he go to cheat you?
Watch the man behind the curtain......
The auction ended today (actually yesterday, as it is past midnight as I
write)....
Not only does the bidder who also lives in Sacramento instantly have the
'meteorite'
but conveniently leaves the seller this feedback:
"picked up.SUPER NICE PIECE.authentic for sure!..hope to do business again!"
Well, you may say, "he could have picked it up and he could have left
feedback the SAME day since they live in the same town!"
Yes, But look at the time the auction ended (Dec-19-02 15:38:33 PST) and the
time he posted feedback
(Dec-19-02 15:43:17 PST). So he had less than 5 minutes to get the goods,
exchange money, return home, verify that it is a meteorite and post his
feedback. But, you say, "the only way he could do that is if he lived in the
SAME HOUSE!": Yes, you have figured it out!
It is not what he says, as much as what he does!
This guy was not only dishonest from the very start, but also not very
bright!
His story and his 'meteorite' are as true or are as deceptive as his actions.

Now eBay will get its' fee and the seller/bidder got what he deserved!.
Well done!
(Perhaps it would be nice if someone sent him a congratulatory message for
selling his 'meteorite')
But then again it may be nicer to leave well enough alone!
Best to all,
Ken Newton
 http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/updates.html






"Jerry A. Wallace" wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Well, I figure most of you wish this deal would go away...but, since the
> auction's
> still open, I figure it's still 'in play'. It'll all be laid to rest
> soon enough, I suspect, but
> for now, we can still kick a live mule. (And besides that- I didn't
> start it!)
>
> First, for any of you that are still interested at all, you should check
> back on the auction
> webpage. It seems that several folks have done went and caused
> 'handcannon444'
> to become highly irritable. Turns out that someone has threatened to
> report him to the
> "METEORITE POLICE" and he sure as heck ain't taking kindly to those
> sorts of threats.
> HandCannon has added an addendum to the auction webpage that you really
> need to read.
> I won't post it here for fear of lawsuits and/or 44mag bullets flying my
> direction. I don't
> think you could pay somebody to make up nonsense any more outrageous
> than what he
> has written. By implication, 'HC' (HandCannon) tells us that one of the
> rules for bidding
> on his auction is that the bidder must have one eye covered and the
> other tightly shut
> when viewing any details or photos on his auction page. It's hilarious!!!
>
> You guilty parties out there (and you know who you are) need to quit
> aggravating that
> 'budding entrepreneur' like that!!! :-D
>
> Second, after posting my letter last night, I layed down in bed and
> began to think on it some
> more. I got to thinking about the picture of the 'object' once again and
> got back up and took
> another 'blown up' view of it. The surface of the object has a fairly
> 'ratty' look to it. So, if
> you would, bear with me through this scenario...
>
> Picture this in your mind...
>
> California farm folk didn't have a heckuva lot to do back in the
> mid-thirties except to raise
> their meager crops and sit on the front porch in their rockers on Sunday
> afternoons, resting
> and passing the time waiting for the Grand Ole Opry to play on their
> radios come evening.
> And they would wonder how their brethren were subsisting in the 'dust
> bowl' drought that
> had gripped the mid-west states; wonder they would, of course, at least
> about the brethren
> that hadn't already packed up and moved to California, some of them
> stopping to look for
> work at Grandpa's farm. These were the days that were some 30 years
> before TV's became
> fairly common household items, and some 65 years before computers would
> wind their evil
> ways into becoming a daily activity for many. So you see, back then
> there wasn't a whole lot
> for a farmer to do on a nice Sunday afternoon but to sit and let the
> mind wander and let the
> women folk go about their chores of preparing meals and washing dishes.
>
> Grandpa is sitting in his rocker on the front porch of his farmhouse,
> back in the mid '30's,
> sipping his fresh lemonade, spiked with a hefty splash of Old Crow,
> staring blankly at that
> blasted rock lying on the table in front of him. He gradually focuses on
> the chink knocked
> off of the corner of that devilish chunk of sky rock that destroyed his
> barn some years earlier,
> and begins to realize that the inside of the rock is so much prettier
> than the outside- that is
> mostly covered with that ugly dark brown crust.
>
> Grandpa is thus inspired to remedy the situation, and saunters off to
> the new barn to get his
> cold chisel and ballpeen hammer. When he returns, he sets upon his
> newfound task with great
> gusto, and in a short while the table and porch floor under the table
> are covered with chips of
> that nasty looking crust. The whole scene has been observed by Grandma,
> who has been
> sitting silently across from him, giving him dirty looks, all the while
> knowing that the old fool
> never cleans up his messes. She grunts as she finally rises from her
> rocker to go into the house
> to get the broom and dust pan. When she comes back to the porch, she
> finds Grandpa
> standing, holding the newly transformed sky rock, and grinning like the
> old fool that she thinks
> he is. "Well, by gum," he tells her, " that cleaned up to look pretty
> nice. Think I'll keep it on the
> chesterdrawers in the bedroom." As Grandpa wanders into the house to
> find a new home for
> his prize, Grandma finishes the last half of his lemonade cocktail and
> sets about cleaning up the
> old fool's mess.
> ________________________
>
> Coulda happened that way. Who knows??? And if not in this instance,
> perhaps others.
>
> Jerry
>
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Received on Fri 20 Dec 2002 01:17:14 AM PST