[meteorite-list] Re: blah blah

From: Brad Sampson <meteor.dealer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:24 2004
Message-ID: <00bf01c1c170$c9e80ad0$f1753d04_at_compaq>

   I offered some privately to several repeat customers for $1.85g, to my
knowledge i never offered it for that price publicly. I posted it publicly
on the Meteorite list along with Eric Olsen for $3.50g. The piece i put on
Ebay was 455g, not 700g. I opened the bidding for $1g. The description was
accurate. You bid on it then backed out with a lame excuse. I sold it to
someone else who was very happy with it. Your loss their gain.

Brad Sampson
meteor.dealer_at_gte.net
http://www.angelfire.com/me2/meteorites
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "Brad Sampson" <meteor.dealer_at_gte.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:33 PM
Subject: be careful with Brad Sampson


> Dear Brad, Steve, Dave & all,
> Brad, surely even you might have seen this day
> comming.
> A couple of years ago you left the only negative
> feedback on eBay I have ever received. Why? Because
> you offered a very large piece of Gobabeb (700g, as
> I recall) when it first came out, stating in the eBay post
> that you controled the entire weight of the fall and would
> be selling it for $3.50/g retail. Minimum bid was $1/g, so,
> I went for it. It looked GREAT & I knew I could make a little
> cutting it and selling it at that price. THEN, after I had placed
> my bid, you offered it to EVERYONE ON THIS LIST for
> something like $1.65/g! (long BEFORE the auction closed)
> (This later fact can be substantiated in the list archives).
> I emailed you MANY times before the auction closed.
> I asked for your phone number, I sent you my phone number - and you
> stonewalled me.
> I told you I would NOT honor a bid placed under false
> advertizing, as you had done. Even you have to know that at
> $1/g for a mass, sold at $1.65 after cutting is a LOSS in
> money. You advertized it would retail for $3.50. You had
> control of the entire fall - and IMMEDIATELY broke your
> word after I placed my bid. You then REFUSED to communicate.
> THEN you threatened to sue me .... which made me laugh,
> wondering who this little puppy trying to piss on my leg
> was. So, you left negative feedback on eBay.
> Well, Brad, it seams I am not the only one you have
> pulled your crap with. What goes around, comes around.
> By the way, "slander" is only when people make
> public statements that are NOT TRUE ..... so, you would
> have some dificulty pursuing such a course....but then,
> everyone knows you are only barking......like a little
> yappy dog. - Oh, and the others you have pissed on...
> they may be like me - I have saved EVERY email between
> us. I would be happy to let ANY judge or jury make a
> ruling based on the cold hard facts. You, sir, have left
> a trail a mile wide.....and it weren't bread crumbs.
> You cannot screw people repeatedly AND hope to
> retain credability. Everyone makes a mistake now and
> then, but you flat out try to take it to people. You must
> have gone to a weird high school that that kind of crap
> didn't get beat out of you when you were a teenager.....
> Start treating people fairly. Hold steady, and in a few
> years you can rehabilitate your reputation. Having one of
> your little tissy fits only puts an exclamation point on
> your behavior.
> Sincerely, Michael
>
Received on Fri 01 Mar 2002 05:31:10 PM PST