[meteorite-list] A Recent Set Of Ebay Aucitons

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <3F4CBCCB.DF68BCAD_at_kconline.com>

To all,

Recently a seller known to me posted a bunch of items on ebay. This seller had a zero
rating and was new to eBay. I have dealt with this company before and have only heard
good things about them and that they do their own hunting for the material they have.
Included in these listing were a number of lunar specimens that are listed in the
Meteoritical Bulletins.

I just received notification from eBay that in investigation of this seller is taking
place and that I may wish to hold off sending payment for my winning bids. I know for
a new user they sold a bunch of material but they had a lot of nice material to begin
with and items I wouldn't have minded buying.

If anyone knows the details of what is going on and wants to send me an email or send
one to the list as there were other list members that bid on these items I would be
interested in what might be the reason for the suspension of this seller. Many
auctions shot up real high for the material being sold at the last minute and I
certainly did my part to bid high the last remaining few minutes and saw others do the
same. Perhaps this is the basis for ebays concern. All my best!

--AL Mitterling
Received on Wed 27 Aug 2003 10:14:35 AM PDT