[meteorite-list] "Weston" on e-bay

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:58:17 -0600
Message-ID: <AANLkTimHrkKoebgHpvUTwOru-ET6YeFNL04A2PN8JoSE_at_mail.gmail.com>

Ebay's more obsessed with keeping fossil mammoth material off their
site because they can't tell the difference between fossil mammoth and
modern elephant...

Best thing to do when you spot a meteor-wrong is to contact the dealer
first, and then if they don't respond, click the report-item button
and file it as a fradulent item.

Usually if enough people complain, ebay pulls it quickly. This is
especially true in categories such as civil war relics, where they'll
pull you within hours if someone doesn't think your item is real.

- YvW

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks
<meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> eBay certainly doesn't have the best interest of it's sellers in mind,
> and from the looks of this auction (and others like it), they don't
> care about their buyers or the integrity of their marketplace either.
> Caveat Emptor.
>
>
> On 11/18/10, JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> This auction just ended, a great price for 72 grams of Weston, (I paid a lot
>> more than that for mine!), not so great of a ?price for botryoidal hematite.
>> But seriously, if you're so dumb you don't know that Weston is an H4 and you
>> bid on a piece of Weston sold as an iron, I don't really feel that sorry for
>> you.
>>
>> --------------------
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390261289839&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&autorefresh=true
>>
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