[meteorite-list] Another crazy bidder on ebay

From: Notkin <geoking_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 09:31:16 -0700
Message-ID: <7CDEFC8E-776D-44B7-BD00-194A86D0D336_at_notkin.net>

Dear Listees:

New Year's greetings. I hope you all enjoyed the holiday weekend. I
had a wonderful time up in Phoenix with my girlfriend.

About a year ago, Steve and I did a radio interview about our TV
series for "Slice of SciFi," which is based in Phoenix. I have since
done two more interviews for the same station and became great friends
with the hosts. They invited us up to their winter party and it was a
blast. Science Fiction fans among you should definitely check out
their show; it's outstanding (and very funny!):

http://www.sliceofscifi.com

As a result, I took the rather unusual step of not following my emails
over the weekend, and came home to read all this business about my
Ebay auction. So, here is the deal:

Both the high bidders are not only customers of mine, but also
friends. One is an experienced collector and a very popular member of
the community; the other is a new collector and also, fairly
obviously, new to Ebay. If either party wishes to withdraw their bids
on the Bassikounou, it's fine with me, and no hard feelings. I'm also
happy to close the auction and start it again from scratch if either
bidder requests that I do so. Further, if anyone still thinks there is
anything questionable about this auction, please email me off-List and
I will ask both bidder's permission to provide their names and email
addresses and you can do your own verification.

Apologies from Don and Greg both accepted.

FYI: when someone makes an accusation on the List, not only does it go
out to hundreds people around the world, but it also gets permanently
archived in the Meteorite Central database. In other words, as long as
the Internet is around there will now be a bunch of searchable posts
linking my name and my Ebay auctions to accusations of shill bidding.
That doesn't make me real happy, so it's maybe a good idea to do a
little fact checking, and to think twice, before posting something
inflammatory.

Anyway, to end on a positive note there is one really extraordinary
offering among my current auctions and I invite you all to take a
look. It is a 91.5-gram Sikhote-Alin shrapnel specimen with a superb
impact pit. The pit has a well-formed splash rim and is 17 mm in
diameter! I believe it is the second-largest impact pit I've ever seen
on a Sikhote-Alin:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170585040150


And the rest of them are here: http://shop.ebay.com/aerolitemeteorites/m.html



Regards to all,

Geoff N.
www.aerolite.org
www.meteoritemen.com
Received on Mon 03 Jan 2011 11:31:16 AM PST