I just got the conformation from president of IMCA, Anne Black, that Stefan Ralew and Martin Altman are no longer member of IMCA.
As you may already know, Stefan and Martin were systematically engaged in mail fraud and wire fraud. I was one of their many victims and decided to file a complaint against them with IMCA since they were both members of IMCA. Martin Altman had lured me in by lots of stuff by telling me that he was a board member of IMCA and I can return anything that I don't want or like. I have to thank IMCA board members for their diligent effort in investigating the complaint. IMCA board members unanimously concluded that Stefan and Martin needed to honor their obligations and act ethically as a member of IMCA. IMCA board laid out options for Stefan and Martin to honor their obligation. They were essentially asked to stop engaging in unethical and illegal behavior. See below is my official complaint to IMCA. As I said, IMCA thoroughly investigated the complaint and IMCA board unanimously voted to force them to honor their obligation of full refund. I strongly suspect that Stefan and Martin either sent me the either fake or low quality meteorite and were afraid to give the refunds for the garbage that they sold me under deceit and fraud of promising full refund with clear intent of not honoring the obligation. I am sending this note to warn all meteorite collectors to watch out so they don't become their next victim. I will be happy to provide more details if anyone wants it. I have consulted my legal counsel and probably will file lawsuit to avoid them from profiting from their illegal activities. I may also contact my friends at FBI to investigate their mail and wire fraud scam. ----- Original Message ----- From: "I.M.C.A. International Meteorite Collectors Association" <questi...@imca.cc> To: <complai...@imca.cc> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:18 AM Subject: IMCA Complaints > > Your Name: Naveen Jain > Your E-Mail: nav...@intelius.com > Are you an IMCA member?: no > > Message: I am a new collector and purchased 9 meteorite specimens from > Martin Altman (director of IMCA). Martin touted his being a director of > IMCA to give me comfort and entice me to buy it from him. I specifically > asked him if I will be able to return any item that I didn't like and he > said that it's their normal practice and part of the German consumer > protection law (see email from him below). The return policy on their > website also clearly states the same i.e. a customer can return any item > within 30 days for a full refund. i contacted them within 24 hours of my > receiving the items that I want to return 2 of the 9 specimens that I > received. They are now refusing to return the item and refund my money. I > am now being told that I am somehow a business customer and my order that > was sold from their stock as shown on their website is somehow a custom > order because it was packed for shipping to US. > > I will like to refund everything to them if they have problem returning 2 > out of 9 orders. > > Here is the email from Martin Altman: > > From: Martin Altmann [mailto:altm...@meteorite-martin.de] > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 3:37 PM > To: Naveen Jain > Subject: AW: Few thoughts.. > > Hi Naveen, > >>As we discussed in the past, I am assuming that you will happily return >>any of the meteorite that I don't like after I look at them for a full >>refund. > > Nja."happily". perhaps not :-) ; > But of course that is our business standard. > And btw. here in Germany we have a strong consumers protection. By law we > would be obligated to take back everything sold via internet, if the buyer > returns it within 3 weeks. Warm regards, Naveen Naveen Jain Founder - Moon Express, Intelius, InfoSpace Board of Trustee - X Prize Foundation, Singularity University http://www.linkedin.com/in/naveenjainintelius ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
