[meteorite-list] The eBay $13,000,000 space rock

From: Fred Caillou Noir <fred_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 4 17:09:32 2006
Message-ID: <000c01c6e7f9$4f548550$0100a8c0_at_IBM>

I also contacted this seller about item #300034369553 - METEORITE offered at ?7,000,000 starting price, saying that he will never have a single bid and I received the following reply:

'Of course when someone's grandaddy bought a large house his friends only jested that it might make a million one day. And of course you'ver NEVER seen a house advertised for ?1million or more......... '

Well,... humour...?

I do not know what ebay insertion fees have to be paid with such a starting price and do not want to use time counting, but it must be high! What kind of game is this?

Cheers

Frederic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Harris" <entropydave_at_ntlworld.com>
To: "metlist" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:38 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] The eBay $13,000,000 space rock


> Well, I did email the seller with a respectable tone - offering my
> experience and so on, and spent some time explaining that the pics couilld
> be better and so on and that the price was unreasonable and so on...
>
> I obviously wasted far too much time - I got a single word response "Thanks"
>
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> Then I saw the other guff they were selling at equally ludicrous prices so I
> again, politely and self-effacingly emailed them back apologising for "not
> realising that you were a major loon" and that I was foolish to try to help!
>
>
> Craaaa-zzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!
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>
>
> ho hum...
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>
> dave
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Received on Wed 04 Oct 2006 05:08:58 PM PDT