Hello Everybody, A few days ago Richard Montgomery brought to my attention that someone was selling a "meteorite" on Ebay using Blaine Reed's name. I forwarded the information to Blaine, and here is his response, below. Thank you Richard. And please do let us know if you all see any other similar problems on Ebay. Thank you.
Anne M. Black www.IMPACTIKA.com [email protected] President of IMCA www.IMCA.cc In a message dated 03/30/11 15:20:11 Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi everybody, I just got home from another long trip to find people asking me about this fraudulent E-Bay listing using my name. I did indeed do analysis work on three different pieces of the same stuff for these people at the Tucson show. The results were given, as shown, as simply written on the back of my card. HOWEVER, these jerks ADDED the Ni next to the Fe to what I had written and claimed that the number represented the combination of Fe and Ni. There was NO nickel what so ever in any of the three samples. I told them several times point blank that they DO NOT HAVE A METEORITE. What they had was a quite titanium rich magnetite. I also told them (as a consolation of sorts) that, if there was enough of this stuff where they found it, they may have the makings of a titanium mine. I guess this is a serious blow to my model of offering analysis of specimens for the public. It seems that there is no way I can stop these delusional i diots from misrepresenting or outright falsifying the data I give them (as these people did). I may have to reconsider my plans for offering this service (or how I handle delivering the data at the very least). I want to ask people out there to keep an eye out for these jokers offering this stuff again and let me know if they do ([email protected]). I have tried to file a complaint with E-Bbay on this listing, but was only given 100 characters (about a dozen words) to describe my problem/ issue with the listing! No way I can explain to the don't give a damn people at Ebay in that little space. I'll try again none the less if someone lets me know about a similar listing while it is still active. Thanks for your help and understanding (that i would never give the thumbs up to something so obviously bogus). Blaine Reed --- On Wed, 3/30/11, Impactika <[email protected]> wrote: From: Impactika <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: goldierocks thought you might like this item on eBay To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 2:59 PM In a message dated 03/27/11 09:21:50 Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: _http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11030.m44.l1120/7_ (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11030.m44.l1120/7) ? euid=0bf5bfa72dfb441f956db39faab6a6c2&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2Fe BayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26%26item%3D320675837962%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AB%3AE F%3AUS%3A1120 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
