Very good advice Mike. If I may add...to all of you who do sell on eBay and are tired of paying fees, and receiving unjust negative feedback from constipated Buyers or dealing with fraud and wanna be Dealers/Sellers, may I suggest an alternative. Please understand I realize eBay covers a world wide distance of people, but and I mean BUT, don't many here on the Meteorite List anyways adverstise that they have items posted on eBay? Yes they do, and a large amount of Buyers are from this List who read the posted advertisment and then go to eBay to view these Auctions. Some even sell specimens just by posting on this List without eBay such as Chicago Steve Arnold and several other Sellers, thus saving costs. Very smart people! Yes I understand that an Auction can allow an unlimited price, but as avid and experienced meteorite collectors, we know what we can afford and we know roughly what the market value is give or take for most specimens.
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Here is an option which I have as well as many other people, for these reasons took. You do not need to be a rocket scientist or computer guru to do this. It is simple and well explained. Most importantly it is free. Yes I said it is FREE. Build your self a small Website.Not only does it make you look legit and professional, it seperates you from those frauds that hide behind eBay. You then when you have meteorite specimens to sell, do as you always have by advertising them on the List with a link to your site. Yes there will be a set price and yes you can still use PayPal to have Buyers purchase your meteorites, but Bam...no eBay fees, no negative feedback no bull crap!
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Here you can build a 3 page limit Website for free very easily. At least click the link and check it out. Options are there for even more Website options. My Website was created entiely by myself this way! Over 2.5 million people use this Site for their home and professional business by building their own Website. Just a thought and option. Heck if we can get the whole List to do this we might be able to elliminate most of the fraud, and get more bang for the buck to purchase meteorites. I know we will never elliminate 100% of the frauds, but those who are serious about meteorites can take it a step further by building a Website to sell their meteorites, since many fraudulant people will find it to time consuming thus taking the easy route via eBay. Now please don't get me wrong, we know not all eBay Sellers and Dealers are frauds using eBay to sell their meteorites. But with a Website you then can not hide behind your eBay name or behind eBay itself. Check the Link out. I would not steer any of you wrong. Here is the Link:

http://www.webstarts.com/?aff=emflocater

Sincerely
Don Merchant
Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
www.ctreasurescwonders.com
IMCA #0960

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Farmer" <m...@meteoriteguy.com>
To: "Mendy Ouzillou" <ouzil...@yahoo.com>
Cc: <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>; " Jorge M. Gonçalves " <galeriaco...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] JASON,be carefull what you say about my meteorites on the Meteorite List,I am warning you...


eBay makes money on sales, they do not care if they are sale of fake or real items.
Forget eBay and you would be happier.
Michael

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On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Mendy Ouzillou <ouzil...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Based on the link below, that should be enough for eBay to pull not just the listing but others as well.

Slap, slap, oh sorry, I was obviously dreaming.

Mendy Ouzillou


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From: Michael Farmer <m...@meteoriteguy.com>
To: Brandon <b1dunov...@aol.com>
Cc: Jorge M. Gonçalves <galeriaco...@gmail.com>; "Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com" <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2013 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] JASON, be carefull what you say about my meteorites on the Meteorite List, I am warning you...

If you would all stop buying from random scammers, the scams might stop.....
Just sayin:)
Michael Farmer

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 2, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Brandon <b1dunov...@aol.com> wrote:

What's really a shame, is that the intentionally mislabeled meteorites he peddles are likely displayed with his "hand-written authenticity cards" , or worse, have been resold or broke down and now belong to countless collections.

What a shame.... Truly.

Brandon D.

On Mar 2, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Ken Newton <magellon....@gmail.com> wrote:

(Sorry if this is a duplicate)
Jorge (galeriacores),
Please kindly explain to the List and myself as to how your
"authentic"" "OUM Dreyga" magically became an "authentic"
"Chelyabinsk" ????
See:  http://meteorite-identification.com/updates.html

Hmmm?

Ken Newton

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jorge M. Gonçalves
<galeriaco...@gmail.com> wrote:
Jason, I was asked by the owner of the METEORITE LIST not to write any
offensive language or insult any one publicly on this list but
apparently you don't respect that policy.

All I said is that my Russian meteorite specimens on Ebay come with a
card of authenticity from the Russian seller. Before you start
accusing me of anything please ask someone to interpret the card for
you. The name of the seller and his respective residence is on that
card  and to me that is all the written proof I need.

Jorge


2013/2/28 jason utas <jasonu...@gmail.com>

Jorge,
1) I am not selling any material from this fall, nor do I plan to.
2) So much of the material you're selling in your ebay account is so
painfully misrepresented that I fear no threat from you.  You're
either woefully ignorant, or a cheat. Either way, you have no grounds
to be threatening anyone who points this out.
Written proof is worth as much as the person who's writing it, which
apparently means nothing in your case.
Jason

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Jorge M. Gonçalves
<galeriaco...@gmail.com> wrote:
You've got some nerve to come on the Meteorite List and start exalting your specimens from Russia and condemning my own. Pardon my language expression, but who the fuck do you think you are??? As far as I'm concerned I'm the only one showing written proof from the seller, as far as I know all the other pieces don't come with any written proof showing any authenticity.
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