[meteorite-list] Beware of Steve Arnold Chicago Ebay scams part3+

[GeoZay at aol.com]

Mathias>>In any case, my personal  experience says: presents can be 
dangerous as they 
knot an invisible ribbon  between two persons. Not by chance old cultures 
often developed highly  complecated rules and systems of giving and 
receiving. It's sometimes not  such an easy and innocent affair. <<

I just told someone else  off on the side that Steven has never done me 
wrong with the freebies. I pretty  much deduce that I'm not the only person 
that gets them. He's been offering  freebies for a long time now and I don't 
see a big rush of supporters when the  ridicule comes up. So I don't think 
Steve expects anyone to come to his defense  either. If he was, I think the 
giving out of freebies would disappear a long  time ago.  He has never asked 
anything of me other than a mailing address  to send the meteorites to. Just 
about the only thing I've ever said to him was,  "I'll take one" when offered 
and "Thank You" when they were received. Sometimes  he has to asked for the 
mailing address again...but that's pretty much the  conversation. My 
defense for him (and a few others that have been picked on in  the past for other 
reasons), rests mainly that he has never done me wrong, so I  got no beef. 
If someone else does, then that should be between the two of them.  I think 
some others just like to pile on because that somehow makes them seem  more 
acceptable with the majority. I think what rubs a lot of folks negatively  
towards Steve is the fact that he does give away freebies, or resells 
meteorites  soon after being acquired. A lot of these folks are probably sellers or 
want to  be's and they resent seeing something dispatched so cheaply. They 
probably see  this as the lowering of value of their goods?  

>>So I agree  with Anita - there could be persons "I wouldn't buy a 1 pound 
lunar from for  free". But, who knows, if the 1 pound would come from 
Mercury? ;-) No, I  wouldn't either.<<

I probably wouldn't buy it either...but if  Steven or anyone else has one 
of these up as a freebie, my hands are up. Let me  know who you are and I'll 
give you my mailing address.  :O) 
George Zay  

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