[meteorite-list] Michael Casper

From: Mark Grossman <markig_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:42 -0500
Message-ID: <004601c88921$9082dac0$6601a8c0_at_QED>

Mike,

Thanks for setting the record straight.

Mark Grossman

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
To: "Mark Grossman" <markig at westnet.com>; "E.P. Grondine"
<epgrondine at yahoo.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Michael Casper


> It IS NOT TRUE, he lives near Cornell, and traded/sold
> them specimens. He also came on the scene, and within
> about a week proclaimed himself the worlds largest
> meteorite dealer. People can say anything they want,
> that doesnt make it true.
> Mike
> --- Mark Grossman <markig at westnet.com> wrote:
>
> > Is that true - Michael Caspar was curator of
> > Cornell's meteorite collection?
> > Was he a dealer at the time, or a curator at an
> > earlier period?
> >
> > Anybody know who the present curator of Cornell's
> > collection is, and for
> > that matter, how big a collection it is?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark Grossman
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> > To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Michael Casper
> >
> >
> > > Hi Mike -
> > >
> > > This is very sad to hear about. As near as I knew,
> > > when specimens from NWA began to appear, but
> > before
> > > prices had really started to fall, Casper simply
> > > decided to get out of the business, liquidating
> > all
> > > his holdings, a move which mystified many at the
> > time.
> > >
> > > I did not know Casper had damaged so many dealers
> > in
> > > doing so. Could you provide more details on the
> > > transactions? Did he return the meteorites he had
> > > contracted for, but not sold? Or did he simply
> > decide
> > > not to take acceptance?
> > >
> > > Oh well, a sad end to Cornell's curator of
> > meteorites.
> > >
> > > E.P. Grondine
> > > Man and Impact in the Americas
> > >
> > >
> > > >Michael Casper is a thief, criminal, and total
> > > >scumbag. He is like a virus that moves from
> > business
> > > >to business, taking what he can, then leaving
> > > >overnight. I won a lawsuit against him, (have
> > never
> > > >seen a dime yet) and when he left the business,
> > he
> > > >left owing many people over $100,000. He got the
> > > >Russians alone for almost $70,000. He spent tons
> > of
> > > >money when he was big, so dealers would sell him
> > on
> > > >credit, he left and simply refused to pay them
> > all at
> > > >the end. I know that he has done the same in
> > coins,
> > > >now he has moved into solar energy.
> > > > www.caspersolar.com
> > > >This is a typical way that con-men operate, they
> > come
> > > >in huge, do real business, then vanish overnight
> > with
> > > >the money. Thank god he is gone from meteorites,
> > he
> > > >was the biggest buffoon and damaged the market
> > more
> > > >than anyone I know of. He loved to buy high and
> > sell
> > > >low when he saw something else he liked more.
> > > >Michael Farmer
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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