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From: actionshooting <[email protected]>
To: jason utas <[email protected]>; Ken Newton <[email protected]>
Cc: Meteorite-list <[email protected]>; imca
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 10:14 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [IMCA] Important - Please Read
I just looked at several of his auctions and it seems he has removed
the IMCA
reference but it is funny, some of the ones he is selling "were
purchased THIS
September". Have I slept through Sept or something??
--
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
IMCA#9052
http://www.facebook.com/Stuart.McDaniel.No.1
---- Ken Newton <[email protected]> wrote:
=============
Jason and Board Members,
Jason, that is a slap in the face, thanks for the heads up.
Board, Mr Scarborough is still using his IMCA number in at least one
ebay
auction ("IMCA member 6135. "):
http://cgi.ebay.com/270752039514
I only checked two of his very many auctions. (You can have ebay shut
down
auctions of persons pretending to be members)
http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=meteoritecollectorsorg
Best,
Ken
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:45 AM, jason utas <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello All,
Many of you know that a man named John/Bryan Scarborough was recently
removed from the IMCA for selling meteorites that were analytically
proven to be misrepresented. If you've never heard this before,
please see the list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg98693.html
What you might not know is that I personally took responsibility for
(dis)proving the authenticity of his sales after noticing that much of
what he was selling looked "funny" -- starting back in January 2010.
Ultimately, a number of samples were sent directly from people who had
purchased them from John/Bryan to a lab for analysis, and, as the
above emails details, an "Ash Creek" turned out to be an H-chondrite,
a fragment of "Zunhua" turned out to be indistinguishable from
Tamdakht (Zunhua is an L-chondrite, not an H), and an iron that he'd
been selling as Deport turned out to be what is most likely a Campo
del Cielo.
His explanations of how these mistakes had occurred were extremely
dissatisfying; the IMCA board apparently thought as much, because the
opted to remove him from the membership.
The trouble is that someone, apparently, told him that I did much of
the investigative work. How do I know this? Jeff Kuyken, on the IMCA
board of directors, just informed me that John/Bryan has changed his
ebay username to "meteoritekid," my old internet alias.
My ebay username is *not* "meteoritekid." Please do not buy from
anyone using the name "meteoritekid" on ebay. John/Bryan is
attempting to impersonate me online in order to get back at me for
having tracked his shady dealings down.
I would not personally trust the authenticity of any specimen he
sells.
I am currently taking a geology field mapping course in Montana and do
not have a working phone. When I return home in a few days, I will be
pursuing this matter with ebay. If that does not work, I will pursue
it legally. If anyone on here has experience with similar issues
within ebay, I'd like whatever help I can get.
- Do not buy from the ebay seller "meteoritekid." It is not me, and
John/Bryan has proven that he is willing to sell a wide variety of
material that is misrepresented.
Thank You,
Jason
[IMCA 6730]
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