[meteorite-list] Chinese Meteorite Fraud on eBay

From: STARSANDSCOPES at aol.com <STARSANDSCOPES_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:55:35 EDT
Message-ID: <ce6.dd25ef0.335ed9b7_at_aol.com>

Hi List, I have looked inside (and up close) of my fair share of meteorites.
 I don't remember what the seller ID of the day was, but I bought one.
Hematite just like I thought. You could have a game of hop scotch with the red
streak it left on the cement. No iron!

Tom Phillips



In a message dated 4/23/2007 9:48:52 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
drtanuki at yahoo.com writes:
Dear Adam and List,

Still more meteorite fraud still on eBay:

Seller: mineral-station:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SOLID-IRON-NICKEL-METEORITE-SPECIMEN-500GRAMS-YING12_W0QQi
temZ250105908678QQihZ015QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/SOLID-IRON-NICKEL-METEORITE-SPECIMEN-750GRAMS-YING3_W0QQit
emZ250106752177QQihZ015QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

SELLER: Curio_room= CHINA:

http://cgi.ebay.com/400G-IRON-METEORITE-WITH-HOLE-CHINA-K618_W0QQitemZ11011627
6319QQihZ001QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/790G-IRON-METEORITE-WITH-HOLE-CHINA-K617_W0QQitemZ11011627
6347QQihZ001QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


http://cgi.ebay.com/840G-IRON-METEORITE-WITH-HOLE-CHINA-K616_W0QQitemZ11011627
6375QQihZ001QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Seller: mineralmall:

This scum has too many listed to list all here.




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Received on Mon 23 Apr 2007 11:55:35 PM PDT