[meteorite-list] Beware of Steve Arnold Chicago Ebay scams part3+

From: GeoZay at aol.com <GeoZay_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:31:23 EDT
Message-ID: <d5e.55ac51c5.37c025db_at_aol.com>

Mathias>>In any case, my personal experience says: presents can be
dangerous as they
knot an invisible ribbon between two persons. Not by chance old cultures
often developed highly complecated rules and systems of giving and
receiving. It's sometimes not such an easy and innocent affair. <<

I just told someone else off on the side that Steven has never done me
wrong with the freebies. I pretty much deduce that I'm not the only person
that gets them. He's been offering freebies for a long time now and I don't
see a big rush of supporters when the ridicule comes up. So I don't think
Steve expects anyone to come to his defense either. If he was, I think the
giving out of freebies would disappear a long time ago. He has never asked
anything of me other than a mailing address to send the meteorites to. Just
about the only thing I've ever said to him was, "I'll take one" when offered
and "Thank You" when they were received. Sometimes he has to asked for the
mailing address again...but that's pretty much the conversation. My
defense for him (and a few others that have been picked on in the past for other
reasons), rests mainly that he has never done me wrong, so I got no beef.
If someone else does, then that should be between the two of them. I think
some others just like to pile on because that somehow makes them seem more
acceptable with the majority. I think what rubs a lot of folks negatively
towards Steve is the fact that he does give away freebies, or resells
meteorites soon after being acquired. A lot of these folks are probably sellers or
want to be's and they resent seeing something dispatched so cheaply. They
probably see this as the lowering of value of their goods?

>>So I agree with Anita - there could be persons "I wouldn't buy a 1 pound
lunar from for free". But, who knows, if the 1 pound would come from
Mercury? ;-) No, I wouldn't either.<<

I probably wouldn't buy it either...but if Steven or anyone else has one
of these up as a freebie, my hands are up. Let me know who you are and I'll
give you my mailing address. :O)
George Zay

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