[meteorite-list] New Nevada Meteorite on Ebay

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:43:48 2004
Message-ID: <40F30464.4040007_at_fascination.com>

Dear All,
So, does the IMCA have any authority to pull the guys membership/logo
privilage while this one is being REINSPECTED, I would like to see
that.....Either that or he pulls the auction while he waits for a SECOND
opinion to confirm the FIRST.
My point exactly, those without teeth!
DAve F.

ken newton wrote:

> Bob and List,
> Actually the seller (Mr. Szep) was immediately contacted by IMCA on
> 7-09-2004.
>
> I informed Mr. Szep that I had spoken with the original finder (Mr.
> Yocum)
> last October when this material appear on ebay last year. Mr. Yocum
> told me that
> Alan Rubin and others had inspected his samples of this 'Nevada
> strewnfield.'
> Mr. Yocum reported that Alan Rubin had told him it was 'slag and
> contained
> no nickel'. Mr. Yocum did not believe Alan Rubin because "how else
> could these huge pieces have wound up in the middle of nowhere?"
> After informing Mr. Szep of these things. Mr Szep again asked me
> for my opinion on his photos. I also have a sample of this material
> sent me
> by Mr. Yocum. I gave Mr. Szep my observations as to why I felt the
> material is
> slag and I suggested he have NEMS verify. I provided NEMS contact
> information and details.
>
> I cannot explain why Mr. Szep has not closed this auction.
> I.M.C.A's interest in this matter is unfinished.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Newton
> http://www.imca.cc
>
>
>
> Robert Verish wrote:
>
>> If now one else will speak up, I guess I'll have to
>> say it...
>>
>> I find this whole Nevada-meteor-wrong-auction-thing as
>> being potentially very embarrassing to the meteorite
>> community.
>>
>> This problem-auction was first brought up on the
>> IMCA-List, but nothing more was said about it. Nothing more was
>> mentioned about how the seller of
>> this auction of this untested, misidentified material
>> was actually an IMCA member! Nothing more was posted
>> about how assistance should be lent to the seller in
>> this matter before any bigger problems arise.
>> Now there's a discussion on this List, but instead,
>> the issue is centered on "trying to determine the ID"
>> of this rock that is clearly a desert varnished iron
>> ore. But there's a bigger problem here. The seller
>> isn't some inexperienced rockhound/prospector trying
>> to sell on eBay some iron ore that he has confused
>> with being a meteorite. The seller is ONE OF US!
>>
>> The problem is that the entire meteorite community can
>> suffer a black-eye over an incident like this. How
>> this problem gets handled will be crucial to the
>> reputation of the IMCA, if not all collectors in
>> general.
>> There are a number of questions that still need to be
>> answered, and some of you have already been trying to
>> get those answers. But I'm not going to raise those
>> questions here on this List. I feel these questions
>> should be raised and discussed on the IMCA-List, where
>> it was first raised, and where it properly belongs.
>>
>> Bob V.
>>
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