[meteorite-list] ET re Another fake name, serious business

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Nov 16 18:20:54 2004
Message-ID: <025d01c4cc32$da36ebc0$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Michael, I am incensed by your email.
Edwin is publicly using numbers that pertain to my stones, so why not
publicly call him out? A real gentleman would not steal other people's
numbers or try to pawn off stones with numbers which do not pertain to them.
Endwin NEVER once contacted me regarding these stones.
So Michael, this is the most simple complaint I have made.
This is hurting me and my business with people mooching off of my work.
So tell me how this is uncalled for?
Time to pay the piper and get this problem dealt with.
Michael Farmer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "Mike Farmer & Melody" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ET re Another fake name, serious business


> Yes,
> I, indeed, do have an opinion:
> It is one thing to lamblast Matteo, who has dealt dirty with
> numerous members of this list or even to sling mud back & forth
> between yourself and Adam - it is quite another to go off on
> a person of E.T.'s dignity, venerable tenure and hard earned
> reputation for honesty!
> Anyone on this list who has dealt with ET will tell you he
> bends over backwards for even the most obnoxious customer
> (I have SEEN him do this, myself), NEVER rips people off and
> has been dealing meteorites as long as anyone (and I mean
> ANYONE) in the business.
> You even ADMIT you have not spoken to him about this,
> so WHAT IN THE HELL are you doing posting it to the list!?
> Get a grip.
> If you somehow lack contact information, contact me and I
> will be happy to supply you with his phone number and email
> address.
> If you can't manage to act like a gentleman, at least pretend
> to have a modicum of decency and good business sense!
> Sincerely, Michael Blood
>
>
> on 11/16/04 1:14 PM, Michael Farmer at meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Anyone out there got any opinions on this?
>> Here is another example of false name given to unclassified meteorite.
>> http://www.polandmet.com/_nwa1906.htm
>> This is POLANDMET, who has a page selling NWA 1906, a Rumuruti.
>>
>> Now, here is my page, of NWA 1906, the only stone classified and given
>> this
>> number:
>> http://www.meteoriteguy.com/nwa1906.htm
>>
>> The problem, that is my meteorite, one stone, no pairings ever announced.
>> Take a look at the two pages, the meteorites are not even similar in any
>> way.
>> Mine is NWA 1906, since I had it classified, Polandmet's does not even
>> come
>> close to mine. It doesn't look the same, it has much larger chondrules,
>> multicolored, and is just totally different. Not to mention that there
>> are
>> clearly two different meteorites on that same page. Note the slices at
>> top,
>> very nice clear multicolored chondrules, then the slices are the bottom,
>> smaller chondrules, more weathered, clearly brecciated.
>> These meteorites are totally different.
>>
>> I am publicly demanding from Polandmet to answer this.
>> What makes you think that you can sell a meteorite under the number that
>> my
>> stone received? What makes you think they are paired? Why are you doing
>> this?
>>
>> Edwin Thompson is the one who is using a whole host of my numbers, I have
>> not spoken with him yet, but there is no justification for it other than
>> trying to pawn off unclassified meteorites as names pieces.
>>
>> This has the potential to collapse the entire meteorite market.
>> We are only as good as our name, and I have worked very hard to do things
>> right. I would NEVER sell someone a meteorite that is not what it is
>> claimed
>> to be.
>> But this is what these dealers are doing, making visual pairings to keep
>> from having to do their own work.
>> Buyer beware, it seems that the only way to get official material is to
>> buy
>> from the dealer who made the official classification.
>> Michael Farmer
>> Awaiting a response from Polandmet and Edwin Thompson.
>>
>> http://www.meteoriteguy.com/nwa1906.htm
>>
>>
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