Hey Don, Greg, Did you even bother looking at who's auction this is? Do
you realize that the Met-List is a PUBLIC forum? Not just in your email
box...
Maybe you don't mean to associate a reputable member of this communbity
with the practices you mention, but your statements can be seriously
misinterpreted by others. Perhaps showing some thoughtful intelligent
restraint is a good thing here instead of being overly suspicious by
pointing out probably completely unrelated circumstances which could
cause an automatic and mistaken association with one of our communities
most reputable dealers.
It's probably just and overly zealous and extremely excited
inexperienced bidder.
Don't forget, this auction is for an extremely exquisite, flight
oriented, rollover lipped, beautifully fusion crusted meteorite, being
offered by none of than the world famous Geoff Notkin of the Meteorite Men.
Naaa... That couldn't possibly be the reason it's got such high bids.
Regards,
Eric
On 1/2/2011 2:50 PM, GREG LINDH wrote:
An Ebayer bidding on his own stuff.
Wow, there's a shocker.
Greg L.
From: dmerc...@rochester.rr.com
To: fuj...@mac.com; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:44:32 -0500
CC: dmerc...@rochester.rr.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Another crazy bidder on ebay
The fact that one individual bidder has 0 feedback and that many bids on one
item in that span of time, leads me to feel that maybe a form of bid rigging
is taken place. At least that's what would catch my eye and put my guard up.
Now that the price is where the seller wants it, it would not surprise me
that Mr. 0 feedback will not bid again. If I was the high bidder I would
retract my bid this way Mr. 0 would be high bidder! I could be wrong on all
this but I have seen this game before on several occasions.
Here is a link to a news source in which an eBay bidder was arrested and
charged with bidding on his own auctions because he said they were lower
then expected...he even admits creating another account with name to do this
bidding rigging!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1267410/Ebay-seller-faces-fine-bidding-items-raise-prices.html
Sincerely
Don Merchant
IMCA #0960
Founder-Cosmic Treasures Celestial Wonders
http://www.ctreasurescwonders.com/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fujihara"<fuj...@mac.com>
To: "MeteorList"<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 12:46 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Another crazy bidder on ebay
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=170585023324
current bid is at $180 for a 2.3g complete oriented Bassikounou H5
chondrite
granted Geoff's offering is a pristine example of flight orientation of an
OC, but would anybody in their right mind bid $79/g? FWIW, this 'new' guy
has 0 feedback.
Gary Fujihara
Big Kahuna Meteorites (IMCA#1693)
105 Puhili Place, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720
http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/
http://shop.ebay.com/fujmon/m.html
(808) 640-9161
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