[meteorite-list] eBay policemen?

From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:25 2004
Message-ID: <20031010200149.11650.qmail_at_web10302.mail.yahoo.com>

and if you find a 0.01 gr. of Nogata is extra
Huge....but for me is many many huge a 3.92 gr. slice
of Barbotan, my birthday meteorite...all collectors
have a personal scale for meteorites.
Regards

Matteo

--- Dave Harris <entropydave_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Personally and practically, a 2kg meteorite of any
> type usually I regard as
> huge' mainly because it would have cost me a lot of
> money - I have been
> collecting for a few years and I don't have anything
> approaching 2kg in size
> so for me 'huge' is an appropriate adjective!
> Also, I would, if I were that buyer, look around so
> see what else was on
> offer in order go guesstimate the correct sort of
> price, and decide that if
> it is good value and looks good then ok, it may not
> be a 3/4 ton Otumba as
> in the NHM (London) but for domestic collections it
> is pretty substantial.
> It is all relative!
> But I agree with Tom's last statement that the
> perhaps the seller ought to
> check out what 'huge' is relative to the rock he is
> selling. I personally
> would regard 0.25g of Calcalong Creek as 'huge'!
>
>
> Research, that is the key, both for buyers and
> sellers!
>
> thanks for your indulgence
>
>
> dave
>
>
> IMCA#0092
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Tom aka James Knudson
> Date: Friday, October 10, 2003 20:45:46
> To: Howard Wu; Dave Harris; metlist
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] eBay policemen?
>
> Hello List, Please correct me if I am wrong! Please
> try to be polite when
> doing so! : )
> I think it hurts us all when some one uses
> misleading tactics to sell
> meteorites. Why do I think that? I will tell you.
> Ebay is by far the best,
> cheapest and easiest place to get meteorites. Lets
> say someone new goes on
> ebay and sees a 2000g Campo described as "HUGE" and
> looks around and there
> is no Campo larger on ebay at the time, the buyer
> goes back to the auction
> and finds a IMCA link, clicks on it and learns what
> a honest bunch of
> sellers IMCA members are. The new buyer even clicks
> on a few links and does
> not see a Campo that big on any of the sites. The
> buyer will feel like he is
> getting a Huge Campo at a great price. He goes back
> to the auction and uses
> Buy it now. He gets it and is thrilled with this
> Huge Campo.
> He gets the "BUG" and goes back to Ebay to look
> around. This time he finds
> a 94lb Campo, but his campo was huge? So what is a
> buyer to think? DON"T
> TRUST THEM DISHONEST IMCA MEMBERS, that whole bunch
> are full of #&%$(# !!!!!
>
> Now what, buy from none IMCA members, OK, and it
> turns out to be slag! Oh
> well, this meteorite collecting thing sucks! You can
> not trust anyone!
> I do know, one important part of selling, is you
> need buyers. If no one
> wants to buy meteorites, no one can sell them!!!
> I live in AZ, and it is still summer here, still in
> the high 90's, to hot
> for GB, so all my meteorite hunting is done on ebay!
> I am just telling you
> all of my hunting adventures. : )
> All I am trying to get across is that honesty is
> the best policy. If you
> have a 2k Holbrook, tell people it is huge!!! If you
> have a 2k campo, say it
> is nice sized or something, save HUGE for the huge
> Campos!
> Thanks, Tom
> wondering if I should be the proudest member of the
> IMCA 6168
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Howard Wu
> To: Dave Harris ; metlist
> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] eBay policemen?
>
>
> I joined this list in part so I wouldn't be so
> stupid about faux meteorites
> or over priced scams.
>
> Howard Wu
>
> Dave Harris <entropydave_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to throw in my 2g's worth here - seems that
> some people on the list
> spend too much of their time trawling eBay looking
> for auctions to criticise
> and debunk and publish their 'findings' to the list.
> Fine in principle, but we are not here to police
> eBay - I think that "Caveat
> Emptor" should prevail here. If anyone is naive or
> stupid enough to spend
> thousands of bucks on a so-called 'meteorite' and
> from a supplier who doesn
> t sport the IMCA label then so be it.
>
> Like a lot of people, I find the exceptional ripoffs
> very funny and I am
> quite happy to have my attention drawn to it, but on
> the whole these
> auctions for faux meteorites are all a bit sad,
> desperate and not really
> funny.
>
> Seems to me that every Metlist digest I get now has
> a "look at this eBay
> auction..." gleefully pointing out some stupid ad -
> Can I suggest that
> perhaps one could spend one's time better employed?
>
>
> frustratingly frustrated!
>
>
> dave
>
>
> IMCA #0092
>
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Received on Fri 10 Oct 2003 04:01:49 PM PDT