[meteorite-list] Book: The Rock from Mars: by Kathy Sawyer

From: Greg Stanley <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:37:35 -0700
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Has anyone read the book, "The Rock from Mars?" what are your thoughts? Is it worth buying?
Greg S

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On Jun 14, 2011, at 7:47 PM, bill kies <parkforestmet at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> I can't believe I read the whole thing.
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> Bill
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>> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:36:30 -0400
>> From: danfurlan at gmail.com
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] regarding post of NWA 001 question PLUS careless IMCA member
>>
>> O.k. Everybody, I have spoken to the IMCA member who tried selling me
>> the NWA 001, after i confirmed with Adam Hupe and Dean Bessey and
>> several other people who know a lot about this meteorite and i knew
>> for certain it was practically impossible to have a "half stone" of
>> NWA 001 that weighed 16 grams i went ahead and i confronted this IMCA
>> member. It turns out that he apparently "misread" the label and it
>> was not NWA 001 but that it was NWA 010. This is the second critical
>> error this IMCA member has made. The first major error was when i
>> ordered a .76 gram of lunar meteorite from him. He sent me a .23 gram
>> piece instead of what i had paid for and i sent it back to him for a
>> refund. His excuse was that his scale might of been off, but if that
>> is the case then why was this item listed on ebay several times and
>> one of the times it actually sold which means the buyer canceled the
>> transaction and/or returned the item. Then his excuse changed after i
>> sent him several pictures of the piece weighed on different scales of
>> mine as i own over 6 scales and showed him the same weight of .23
>> grams on each scale. His new excuse was that he had two pieces and
>> mailed me the wrong piece. So then i said o.k. no problem mail me the
>> right piece and then he came up with another excuse stating that he is
>> not sure where the bigger piece is because his son took it. So after
>> i mailed him back the item for a refund is when he tried to sell me
>> the NWA 001 instead of the refund which i became suspicious of when he
>> stated it was a half stone and only after did i confront him about it
>> did he tell me he made a mistake in reading the label. Two critical
>> errors in a row made by an IMCA member makes me wonder a lot of
>> things. I have recieved several emails asking about who this person
>> is and it seems that all the people who are emailing already suspected
>> somebody and they all suspect the same person. I do not want to give
>> his name in a public format because i do not want to cause any
>> problems for this person and maybe both times his mistake were honest
>> mistakes. I have been selling and buying meteorite and meteorite
>> related material for many years and I have never made such critical
>> errors let alone twice in a row I have always been honest and double
>> check everything i sell to make sure problems like this don't happen.
>> I feel this member has behaved very carelessly and even if these
>> mistakes where of an honest nature i think i never want to deal with
>> them again. I am sorry that this experience has made me question the
>> validity of IMCA logo's and i will be extra careful in the future when
>> buying anything from anybody i don't know whether they are an IMCA
>> member or not, one of the best dealers i know isn't an IMCA member and
>> i never had any problems with him... I hope nobody has to go through
>> the same experience i am going through right now just because somebody
>> doesn't pay close attention to what they are doing when conducting
>> business. Like i said there is a small chance that fraud was involved
>> but even if these were honest mistakes they are unacceptable according
>> to my standards and the way i do business. Rest assured anybody out
>> there who deals with me i would never make such mistakes and I always
>> take the up-most care to ensure that what you buy from me is as
>> described and authentic and i double check everything before i ship it
>> out and i think everybody who deals with meteorites should do the same
>> thing.
>> Daniel Furlan
>> collector and dealer
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