Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions - GOD help us

2003-10-10 Thread Steve Schoner
PROTECTED]> >To: "meteorite-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions >Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:32:58 -0700 > >Hello List, Just taking a poll, am I the only one who gets irritated at some >peoples ebay descriptions? It is so strange

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions - GOD help us

2003-10-10 Thread Randy Mils
auctions.   Leave ebay alone and let the buyer beware. Damn, if I ain't getting tired of all this crap.  Get a life for crying out loud. Randy >From: "Tom aka James Knudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "meteorite-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [meteor

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-10 Thread Martin Altmann
can read in a description, that "this stone is not a cheap shrapnel". If my englich wouldn't be so poor, I would finish this message with a bon mot of Bismarck. "One lies never as much as before the election, during the war and after the hunt." ...AND IN EBAY!! Martin

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-10 Thread joseph_town
We do have a standard for that. It's called a guarantee. We all have different levels of experience and expertee's, not to mention eyesight. Feedback and research help but they can be misleading as well. Nothing can replace an established reputation of honesty and quality. Labels and terminolog

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-10 Thread Martin Altmann
Hi list, and we need urgently another standard for those, who claim everything, which has as outside a different colour than inside to be fusion crusted or crusted. Proposal: "rind" vs. "(fusion) crust" Thanks too. Martin A. > Hello List, I have part of this figured out. We need a standard! Fo

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Michel Franco
OTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions > Hello List, I have part of this figured out. We need a standard! For > example; > > FOR IRONS and common chondrites > > > 0g to 10g = tiny > 11

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions what part of 144 grams is confusing?

2003-10-09 Thread joseph_town
Superlatives are fine. I appreciate the exact weight of the specimen included in the title as well though. Sure saves time. Bill Kieskowski > Last time I went to school a $144.00 item which was priced at $1.00 a > gram usually means that the weight is 144 grams.And Welcome again > to the

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Sterling K. Webb
Hi, I believe the corect scientific terminology for meteoritic objects of the size of Hoba is HUMUNGOUS... Sterling K. Webb - Tom aka James Knudson wrote: > Hello All, A current ebay auction has a 2510g Nantan described

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions what part of 144 grams is confusing?

2003-10-09 Thread E.J
Last time I went to school a $144.00 item which was priced at $1.00 a gram usually means that the weight is 144 grams.And Welcome again to the Ebay Central List! Elton Tom aka James Knudson wrote: Hello List, Just taking a poll, am I the only one who gets irritated at some peoples ebay de

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
he proudest member of the IMCA 6168 > > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:32 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions > > > > Yes, and it is even more annoying wh

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:32 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions > Yes, and it is even more annoying when the description says HUGE!!! > > Mike Fowler > Chicago > > > &

[meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Popocatept
Yes, and it is even more annoying when the description says HUGE!!! Mike Fowler Chicago

Re: [meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread CMcdon0923
Another thing that I have always wished for is some type of standardization in the "title" field. I first mentioned this back before there was a separate Ebay category for meteorites, and we were just lumped into the MINERALS section. You had to specifically search for the word "meteorite" to

[meteorite-list] ebay descriptions

2003-10-09 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
Hello List, Just taking a poll, am I the only one who gets irritated at some peoples ebay descriptions? It is so strange how some sellers have only "museum quality" meteorites whether it is a 40 pound SA or a 20g rusted Nantan. Others, everything is "HUGE" or "GIGANTIC" even if it is a 12g iron.