[meteorite-list] Weight scam
From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:44 2004 Message-ID: <00fa01c3230c$6b1f50e0$ce30ef42_at_computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00F5_01C322D1.BDAC49C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well guys, sorry to be so "Anal" but any way you possible look at this, = the situation is still ludicrous. the simple solution for him would be = to do like basically everyone else I have ever seen on ebay, quote a = price for domestic and international shipping. That is what I do. The = packaging material especially for a small NWA meteorite is NIL, You use = a bubble envelope for something that weighs 30 grams. Shipping from = Spain on an item that small is about $4.00 airmail. =20 And the person who called me anal, well, I guess you go to the = supermarket and buy steak, paying for 2 pounds only to find you get 1 = pound of meat and one pound of plastic. Ill bet you would go right back = to the store. I sure would.=20 Well, I just hope everyone sees this mess and decides to buy from = someone who actually does not need to use trigonometry to calculate = shipping material, deducting the gas money and terrorism risks to go to = the post office to ship, dividing the sum of the parts of the stone = subtracting the atomic number of gold. Pretty stupid huh?=20 End of story, buy from dealers.=20 Mike Farmer ------=_NextPart_000_00F5_01C322D1.BDAC49C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Well guys, sorry to be so "Anal" but = any way you=20 possible look at this, the situation is still ludicrous. the simple = solution for=20 him would be to do like basically everyone else I have ever seen on = ebay,=20 quote a price for domestic and international shipping. That is what = I do.=20 The packaging material especially for a small NWA meteorite is NIL, You = use a=20 bubble envelope for something that weighs 30 grams. Shipping from = Spain on=20 an item that small is about $4.00 airmail. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> And the person who = called me=20 anal, well, I guess you go to the supermarket and buy steak, paying for = 2 pounds=20 only to find you get 1 pound of meat and one pound of plastic. Ill bet = you would=20 go right back to the store. I sure would. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Well, I just hope = everyone sees=20 this mess and decides to buy from someone who actually does not need to = use=20 trigonometry to calculate shipping material, deducting the gas money and = terrorism risks to go to the post office to ship, dividing the sum of = the parts=20 of the stone subtracting the atomic number of gold. Pretty stupid huh?=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>End of story, buy from dealers. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Farmer</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00F5_01C322D1.BDAC49C0-- Received on Sun 25 May 2003 06:24:32 PM PDT |
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