[meteorite-list] Bondoc / Estherville / Murchison

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:00:49 -0700
Message-ID: <C184DE22-3130-4B20-BC65-C7AA860D57D0_at_meteoriteguy.com>

It happens to the best of us. Thanks for the refund and I'll return the piece in France in two weeks.
We have all been burned before. What is important is to recognize and remove these fraud pieces from the market and let it be a warning to those who try and pull these frauds that fakes will be identified. I hope you can claim your money back as well from your purchase.
Thanks Andreas for you honesty,
Integrity and rapid response to me.
Michael Farmer

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:53 AM, "Andreas Gren" <webmaster at meteoritenhaus.de> wrote:

> I try to post this since Sunday, thanks Art for letting this mail through.
>
> Hi List,
>
> first let me tell how we get this pieces.
> It was an e bay auction at the German e bay from an Hungarian seller.
> The pieces arrived at my home in a parcel with the pictured specimen cards.
>
> The same day I made pictures from the stones and we offered it at the German
> forum and here on the List of course we mentioned the origin and the
> specimen cards.
> The Next day I was told some one said on face book the specimen cards are
> different because of a comma instead of a dot at the numbers. .
> I said Oh perhaps they did them for the European marked and for got about
> it. The same day in the afternoon I was told by Martin, there are some
> people who think the Murchison is not Murchison.
> I said oh perhaps it's because of the poor polish I will rework it.
>
> Today I polished and etched the Bondoc from that delivery.
> and yes Jason you are right its slag. So Mike you are probably right, the
> Estherville is also slag and all the ones who said the Murchison is not a
> Murchison are also right.
>
> We have been scammed.
>
> I apologies for not identifying the labels as not original. I apologies for
> not identifying the pieces as scam and for not getting the idea the pieces
> could be scam after I new about the different labels.
> Martin never had the specimens or labels in his hand
>
> of course we asked the Hungarian seller before we purchased the specimen
> where they are from an if he has more . He told us he has purchased a
> Meteorite collection some years ago but would like to keep the irons.
> So at this time we don't know if the Hungarian seller scammed us or if the
> scams are for longer time part of a Collection.
>
> That's it,
>
> Raspberry Martin +
> Andi
>
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Received on Wed 05 Jun 2013 12:00:49 PM PDT