[meteorite-list] A Recent Set Of Ebay Aucitons

From: Popocatept_at_aol.com <Popocatept_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <2f.3e1b3bb7.2c7e2e5d_at_aol.com>

Al,

Thanks for the alert.

I bid on some auctions that match the description below. I will probably sit
on my payment till the situation clarifies.

However, many fraud alerts are triggered by computers monitoring for certain
patterns, such as a newbie having a large amount of high value transactions
with no track record.

Assuming we are talking about the same auctions, and the same company, They
do have a track record with many members of the list, and hopefully the above
explanation is all there is.

Mike Fowler
Chicago
starsandrocks


In a message dated 8/27/03 9:23:54 AM, almitt_at_kconline.com writes:

<< o 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

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Received on Wed 27 Aug 2003 11:55:09 AM PDT