[meteorite-list] meteorite weight discrepancy

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:45 2004
Message-ID: <3ED25AF6.2030508_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, Dean and the list,

just a correction, Carlos is from Spain, not from Morocco...;-

Heīs also digging quite a lot of his specimens from Spain,
Morocco and some other countries. This may sound a bit
funny in the ears of our meteorite-hunters, but in minerals
there are quite a lot of old rock-hounds still maining, not just
acting as an intermediary...;- Carlos has been in business
over 30 years, and I think, most of us had Pampers in our
trousers, when he was digging in Morocco.

And as I told before, the meteorites on eBay has been some
1 - 2 % of his sales, so I donīt think, he is going to be a big
trouble in this "closed market policy".

I have forwarded the mail from Carlos to the list, and asked every-
body purached meteorites from him to contact him straight to
get the missing pieces, without the packing weighted...

I really hope, we can get this case ended in a way, we can all be
at least a bit satisfied.

take care,

pekka


dean bessey wrote:

>I also have the feeling that this guy is pulling a
>scam. Every nomad and person over there has some kind
>of scales and I would bet that that dealer never used
>the weight of the box when he originally bought those
>meteorites...
>

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Received on Mon 26 May 2003 02:20:38 PM PDT