[meteorite-list] Russia meteorite ebay fraud

From: valparint at aol.com <valparint_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:13:45 -0700
Message-ID: <79BECD8D0FB54B1C9707E177A4FA87F2_at_Seuthopolis>

Crikey! There are a lot of stupid people. There were at least a dozen bidders on this and they put in a total of 84 bids to work a starting price of 99 cents up to $4100.

Paul Swartz

> It seems someone lost $ 4000.00 on a fake russian meteorite listing:
> ?
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/111013565868?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648
> ?
> Only few rock samples were found and this seems a big iron. Cant belive how stupid people buy such things on ebay..
> ?
Received on Tue 19 Feb 2013 12:13:45 PM PST