[meteorite-list] Langs Auction - Official Statement

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:51:45 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <540151.24664.qm_at_web30714.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Perhaps if the the proceeds really are going to a
non-profit entity,a not for profit unified business
number could be provided to purchasers for tax
purposes.

Adam




--- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Charlie, how dare you! Rantings?
> Let's recap the events of last week:
>
> I put out an email, stating that some of Al Lang's
> pieces were stolen (As reported to myself and Achim
> and everyone else in the room by Al and Iris).
> Within minutes I got both private and public emails
> from other absentee buyers in the USA and
> Switzerland
> with proof that Iris Lang sold them the "stolen"
> pieces for more than double the prices which Achim
> was
> declared the official winner for.
> The emails were dated BEFORE Achim was told the
> items
> were "stolen".
> Then I was inundated with requests for the auction
> prices and winners. I posted the prices publicly and
> asked to be left out of the controversy.
> You call this "Ranting"? Please explain. Perhaps you
> should rephrase your "Ranting" term to what you
> really
> mean, "MEDDLING". That is what you mean right?
>
> I read Iris Lang's email a little while ago. Very
> nice, except that it fails to answer any of the
> complaints against them. Why was Achim told his
> pieces
> were "stolen" AFTER Iris has sold them to other
> people
> for MORE THAN DOUBLE his winning prices? So she
> emailed Peter Marmet and someone else who does not
> want to be named with their "winning" bids of many
> times more money than Achim has just won them for.
> Everyone in the room wrote down the winning bids.
> Why
> do we now have Al and Iris's winning bid #s so
> different than everyone in the room's numbers?
> If the money is going to set up a museum, why did I
> make my check out to Al Lang, not a foundation or
> museum?
> Why were bidders charged far more than the bidding
> increments? Why did winners win items for $5100.00
> and
> before they made it to the desk to pay, were then
> told
> that they did not win, but could match an "absentee
> bid" for hundreds of $$$ more even though they had
> just been declared the winner for less money? Even
> by
> "matching" and absentee bidders bid, then they would
> be screwing the absentee bidder out of a specimen
> because the buyer did not outbid them, just "match"
> them.
> Give me a break, the answers to the serious
> questions
> and price discrepancies are what everyone is looking
> for, none of these questions were answered or even
> mentioned in Iris's email.
>
> Charlie, were you in the auction room? Did you write
> down the winning bids? Can you explain why nearly
> every absentee bidder got totally SCREWED? Either
> not
> having their bids counted, or being overcharged on
> the
> winning increments?
> Now, everyone makes mistakes, it is to be expected
> in
> such an auction, but the fact that Iris sold Achims
> pieces, then told him the next day that they were
> stolen and caused a huge scene with him, then out
> comes the truth, they were not lost or stolen as
> Iris
> tolf him, they were just sold for more money. Now
> that
> is nothing more than decepetion and lies, not a
> simple
> error.
>
>
> Before you say that I am "ranting" again, perhaps
> you
> could answer any of those serious questions which
> were
> made public by a great many people last week. You
> seem
> to be quite willing to discard all of those
> questions,
> throw them in the trash, and accept an email that
> admits nothing but a couple of mistakes.
>
> Dude, you are welcome to buy an oceanfront Arizona
> condo from me Any day, I will compose a nice little
> email saying I made a couple of mistakes after I get
> my hands on your money.
>
> Michael Farmer
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Charlie Devine <moonrock25 at webtv.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello Iris,
> >
> > Thanks for the update. I like to think that most
> > listmembers know
> > better then to pay attention to the rantings of
> Greg
> > Hupe or Mike
> > Farmer.
> > Best,
> > Charlie
> >
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