[meteorite-list] "Weston" on e-bay another LISTING report them toeBay.

From: David Pensenstadler <dfpens01_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:31:36 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <209725.67965.qm_at_web113306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

I sent a question to this seller asking how he knew this was Weston. His reply:


Yes, it appears you are correct. I have been made aware of this many times over, and am taking appropriate action to ensure the buyers are reimbursed if they have paid and to keep them from paying if they have not. The documentation I had was flawed obviously.
David

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--- On Thu, 11/18/10, Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "Weston" on e-bay another LISTING report them toeBay.
> To: "Shawn Alan" <photophlow at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 10:59 PM
> I filed my report and emailed the
> seller directly to ask why he continues to misrepresent
> these items.
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Alan
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:07 PM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] "Weston" on e-bay another LISTING
> report them toeBay.
>
> Hello Listers,
>
> Well its seems this individual has another posting on eBay
> that will end in less then 23 hours. I think its best if
> everyone on the list that has an eBay account to report
> them. First of all they are in violation because they have
> it listed as an iron and Weston isn't, plus, its hematite
> from what Jason and others has said. I have reported this
> listing and if enough people report the listing it should be
> canceled, well we hope.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/1807-Western-CT-Weston-17-Meteorites-total-66-grams-/390261301841?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5add62e251
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
> ebaystore
> http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html
>
>
>
>
>
> [meteorite-list] "Weston" on e-bay
> Meteorites USA eric at meteoritesusa.com
> Thu Nov 18 16:46:14 EST 2010
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> Hi, List,
>
> Jason, You said: "...Either the seller was lied to, or he's
> passing them
> on fraudulently/knowingly...." Maybe he/she just doesn't
> know, or have
> enough knowledge and really believes these to be
> meteorites. The worst
> thing about this, is that unsuspecting people who are also
> not
> knowledgeable about meteorites will buy meteorwrongs
> "thinking" and
> "believing" they are meteorites, which perpetuates the
> problem and it
> spreads from there to the next person, and the next,
> etc...
>
> How does one stop people selling something that's not or
> may not be what
> they claim it to be, when that person could just be
> ignorant of the
> authenticity of the item they are selling?
>
> Eric
>
>
> On 11/18/2010 11:38 AM, Jason Utas wrote:
>
> > Hello Linton,
>
> > On the contrary - both of the links that you posted
> are to auctions of
>
> > botryoidal hematite specimens, and the seller has an
> additional
>
> > auction with a collection of small hematite pieces.
>
> > You can tell by looking for the round, bubbly shaped
> protuberances
>
> > visible on the specimen featured in the first ebay
> auction you linked
>
> > to. The second auction features a nice lamellar
> fragment of hematite
>
> > as well - it spalled off of a larger fragment (the
> seller notes that
>
> > it spalled off of *something* in the description,
> making it sound all
>
> > the more like legitimate fraud to me).
>
> > Either the seller was lied to, or he's passing them on
> fraudulently/knowingly.
>
> > I sure wish ebay would do something about this sort of
> crap...
>
> > Jason
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Linton
> Rohr<lintonius at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >> Hi folks.
>
> >> I'll readily admit to being one of the lesser
> knowledgable members of this fine list, but these Weston
> specimens being offered on e-bay sure don't look like the
> piece I have. Or any chondrites I have for that matter.
>
> >> Is some poor sucker bidding on slag here?
>
> >> Linton
>
> >>
>
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390261289839&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
>
> >>
>
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390261294519&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
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> Thu Nov 18 16:46:14 EST 2010
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> Hi, List,
>
> Jason, You said: "...Either the seller was lied to, or he's
> passing them
> on fraudulently/knowingly...." Maybe he/she just doesn't
> know, or have
> enough knowledge and really believes these to be
> meteorites. The worst
> thing about this, is that unsuspecting people who are also
> not
> knowledgeable about meteorites will buy meteorwrongs
> "thinking" and
> "believing" they are meteorites, which perpetuates the
> problem and it
> spreads from there to the next person, and the next,
> etc...
>
> How does one stop people selling something that's not or
> may not be what
> they claim it to be, when that person could just be
> ignorant of the
> authenticity of the item they are selling?
>
> Eric
>
>
> On 11/18/2010 11:38 AM, Jason Utas wrote:
>
> > Hello Linton,
>
> > On the contrary - both of the links that you posted
> are to auctions of
>
> > botryoidal hematite specimens, and the seller has an
> additional
>
> > auction with a collection of small hematite pieces.
>
> > You can tell by looking for the round, bubbly shaped
> protuberances
>
> > visible on the specimen featured in the first ebay
> auction you linked
>
> > to. The second auction features a nice lamellar
> fragment of hematite
>
> > as well - it spalled off of a larger fragment (the
> seller notes that
>
> > it spalled off of *something* in the description,
> making it sound all
>
> > the more like legitimate fraud to me).
>
> > Either the seller was lied to, or he's passing them on
> fraudulently/knowingly.
>
> > I sure wish ebay would do something about this sort of
> crap...
>
> > Jason
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Linton
> Rohr<lintonius at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >
>
> >> Hi folks.
>
> >> I'll readily admit to being one of the lesser
> knowledgable members of this fine list, but these Weston
> specimens being offered on e-bay sure don't look like the
> piece I have. Or any chondrites I have for that matter.
>
> >> Is some poor sucker bidding on slag here?
>
> >> Linton
>
> >>
>
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390261289839&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
>
> >>
>
> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390261294519&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
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>
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