[meteorite-list] A Recent Set Of Ebay Aucitons

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:37 2004
Message-ID: <3F4CEF8D.5050600_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, Mike and the list,

the seller is same, who recently sold Shirokovsky -pseudo as a meteorite,
now they were listed more correctly as non-meteorites. This may be one
reason anyway.

take care,

pekka

Popocatept_at_aol.com wrote:

>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
>
> >>
>
>
>______________________________________________
>Meteorite-list mailing list
>Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
>http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
>

-- 
Pekka Savolainen
Jokiharjuntie 4
FIN-71330 Rasala
FINLAND
+ 358 400 818 912
Group Home Page: http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/eurocoin
Group Email Address: eurocoin_at_smartgroups.com

Received on Wed 27 Aug 2003 01:51:09 PM PDT