[meteorite-list] Meteorite Laws/Ebay

From: al mitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:28:56 -0400
Message-ID: <256FFD1063CE4A1F9F2C49826C342AAB_at_StarmanPC>

Hi Dean,

You really shouldn't be a good boy and look the other way. I am with Don
Merchant that eBay should refund all the fees. It would be a different story
if they contacted you first and let you know what was going on. Closing all
your auctions was nothing more than being a big corporate jerk.

I'd get on the horn and demand refund for all your cost, phone, listing and
time you spent listing the auctions. If they refuse, contact me and I'll
give you a way to light a fire under them so you will get results. They need
to be brought down on this one.

I sold diamonds for a friend on eBay once. A very trusted and well known
person to a lot of us. Some of the diamonds were Canadian origin. At that
time unknown to me, a certain curator of meteorites in Canada, was watching
for violations of illegal exported Canadian meteorites. He turned me over to
the Canadian Mounted Police, who asked (nicely) where I got my diamonds
from. I was amazed that I would be contacted in this form. I talked to the
dealer who handled the whole affair and when they found out who he was and
the big diamond family he bought from everyone concerned back way off from
us. Apparently they didn't want this getting back to the diamond family. So
there are snoops out there. Best and sorry for your misfortune.

--AL Mitterling


> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:09:53 -0700
> From: deanbessey at yahoo.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Laws/Ebay
>
>
> I am reposting this a second time with a new subject line because I am
> sure that some people are interested but never read the last posting due
> to not being interested in my personal ebay problems enough to bother
> opening the dozen't email on the topic
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have had 5 people email me privately with a message saying something to
> the effect of "Whats up with pearls - and could meteorites be next", so I
> will email the group rather than individually?
> Answer is be afraid - be very afriad.
> Apparantly the laws concerning the export and import of pearls are
> "complicated" so ebay has decided to no longer allow them (But there are
> still some listed on ebay and the "Trust and saftety" department told me
> it would be a security violation to give me this information - because
> people might use the info to circumvent those rules) so who the hell knows
> what ebay is up to. Even their own employees are kept in the dark
> (Presumably for security reasons)
> I was told that it is illegal to export pearls from French Polynesia
> directlty into the USA (Whats up, has obama got a new dislike for the
> french? - if I promise to never ever again use the term French Fry can I
> then list tahiti pearls again?) and that I should look into the laws
> regarding pearls in my own country before I sell anymore.
> So, I am told that conflicting and complicated laws are responsible for
> pearls getting prohibited from ebay.
> Hmmmmm. Complicacated and conflicting laws? That wouldent also apply to
> Meteorites, artifacts, coins, collectibles - not to mention leather pants
> (Countries where cows are sacred) or a free press in general in some
> countries would it.
> Ebay was started to sell laser pointers if I remember correctly. Maybe
> eventually thats all that will be allowed again.
> Me thinks that people should start diversifying from ebay as quickly and
> as much as possible. Paypal to (Nobody has ever had problems with paypal
> of course).
> I now have 1700 auctions that disapeared and ebay tells me sorry, shit
> happens, now just be a good little boy and relist them all again so we can
> collect more ebay fees - and if we decide to end them all without telling
> you why and keeping all those fees again, well, shit happens.
> Spending a lot of time looking for non ebay ways to sell right now
> Cheers
> DEAN
>
>
>
>
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