[meteorite-list] Duck Chondrule

[ken newton]

Adam and All,
I have had many email discussions with with these clowns. They know 
exactly what they are doing.
I prefer this photo:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wrongs/images/5_billionaires.jpg
Best,
Ken Newton
#9632
 

Adam Hupe wrote:

> The 5-billionaires group are a bunch con artists and idiots.
>
> Look at their latest "Duck Chondrule" offering, this is definitely one 
> for the books:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Duck-chondrule-155g-8-Slice-STONY-METEORITE-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ230036197978QQihZ013QQcategoryZ3239QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem 
>
>
> I don't think they have ever sold a real meteorite.  They know they 
> are selling garbage and are trying to rip-off the public. Just look 
> how hard they try to convince their audience that these are real 
> meteorites.  They run a magnet with a sticky substance on it all over 
> a supposed Nantan in one auction.  If this were a real iron meteorite, 
> the magnet would jump out of there hands. In another auction, they 
> zoom in on light colored objects claiming they are chondrules.
>
> This reminds me of the Shirokovsky pallasite webpage images complete 
> with divers and a poor story where every stone weighed exactly 50 
> kilograms, the size of a crucible. I remember you could not make out 
> any the faces of the hunters on this web presence, I wonder why? This 
> new group is brash enough to think that meteorite collectors are 
> stupid enough to jump all over a $28,000.00 Earth rock.  Billionaires, 
> give me a break, they should call themselves penny-aires because that 
> is what a lot of their items are selling for except for one 
> unsuspecting person who paid several hundred for a fake meteorite.
>
> I would love to run into this group in Tucson. I would buy them a 
> round of Denver Death Cookies and extract a confession from them. By 
> the way, I owe some Margaritas on a lost wager that I will make good 
> on at the next show.
>
> Take Care,
>
> Adam
>
>
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