[meteorite-list] Duck Chondrule
From: ken newton <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Oct 6 13:06:06 2006 Message-ID: <45268CFB.5020005_at_earthlink.net> Adam and All, I have had many email discussions with with these clowns. They know exactly what they are doing. I prefer this photo: http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/images/5_billionaires.jpg Best, Ken Newton #9632 Adam Hupe wrote: > The 5-billionaires group are a bunch con artists and idiots. > > Look at their latest "Duck Chondrule" offering, this is definitely one > for the books: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Duck-chondrule-155g-8-Slice-STONY-METEORITE-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ230036197978QQihZ013QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > > I don't think they have ever sold a real meteorite. They know they > are selling garbage and are trying to rip-off the public. Just look > how hard they try to convince their audience that these are real > meteorites. They run a magnet with a sticky substance on it all over > a supposed Nantan in one auction. If this were a real iron meteorite, > the magnet would jump out of there hands. In another auction, they > zoom in on light colored objects claiming they are chondrules. > > This reminds me of the Shirokovsky pallasite webpage images complete > with divers and a poor story where every stone weighed exactly 50 > kilograms, the size of a crucible. I remember you could not make out > any the faces of the hunters on this web presence, I wonder why? This > new group is brash enough to think that meteorite collectors are > stupid enough to jump all over a $28,000.00 Earth rock. Billionaires, > give me a break, they should call themselves penny-aires because that > is what a lot of their items are selling for except for one > unsuspecting person who paid several hundred for a fake meteorite. > > I would love to run into this group in Tucson. I would buy them a > round of Denver Death Cookies and extract a confession from them. By > the way, I owe some Margaritas on a lost wager that I will make good > on at the next show. > > Take Care, > > Adam > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > Received on Fri 06 Oct 2006 01:06:03 PM PDT |
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