[meteorite-list] Response to fraudulent Ebay listing using Blaine's name

From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:08:35 EDT
Message-ID: <95fe5.7826c2b0.3ac52003_at_aol.com>

Hello Everybody,

A few days ago Richard Montgomery brought to my attention that someone was
selling a "meteorite" on Ebay using Blaine Reed's name. I forwarded the
information to Blaine, and here is his response, below.
Thank you Richard.
And please do let us know if you all see any other similar problems on Ebay.
Thank you.

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com
President of IMCA
www.IMCA.cc


In a message dated 03/30/11 15:20:11 Mountain Daylight Time,
brmeteorites at yahoo.com writes:
Hi everybody,

I just got home from another long trip to find people asking me about this
fraudulent E-Bay listing using my name.

I did indeed do analysis work on three different pieces of the same stuff
for these people at the Tucson show. The results were given, as shown, as
simply written on the back of my card. HOWEVER, these jerks ADDED the Ni next
to the Fe to what I had written and claimed that the number represented the
combination of Fe and Ni. There was NO nickel what so ever in any of the
three samples.

I told them several times point blank that they DO NOT HAVE A METEORITE.
What they had was a quite titanium rich magnetite. I also told them (as a
consolation of sorts) that, if there was enough of this stuff where they found
it, they may have the makings of a titanium mine.

I guess this is a serious blow to my model of offering analysis of
specimens for the public. It seems that there is no way I can stop these delusional
i diots from misrepresenting or outright falsifying the data I give them (as
these people did). I may have to reconsider my plans for offering this
service (or how I handle delivering the data at the very least).

I want to ask people out there to keep an eye out for these jokers offering
this stuff again and let me know if they do (brmeteorites at yahoo.com). I
have tried to file a complaint with E-Bbay on this listing, but was only given
100 characters (about a dozen words) to describe my problem/ issue with the
listing! No way I can explain to the don't give a damn people at Ebay in
that little space. I'll try again none the less if someone lets me know about a
similar listing while it is still active.

Thanks for your help and understanding (that i would never give the thumbs
up to something so obviously bogus).

Blaine Reed


--- On Wed, 3/30/11, Impactika <impactika at aol.com> wrote:

From: Impactika <impactika at aol.com>
Subject: Fwd: goldierocks thought you might like this item on eBay
To: brmeteorites at yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 2:59 PM

In a message dated 03/27/11 09:21:50 Mountain Daylight Time,
member at ebay.com writes:

_http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11030.m44.l1120/7_
(http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11030.m44.l1120/7) ?
euid=0bf5bfa72dfb441f956db39faab6a6c2&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2Fe
BayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26%26item%3D320675837962%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AB%3AE
F%3AUS%3A1120
Received on Wed 30 Mar 2011 08:08:35 PM PDT