[meteorite-list] Warning, Warning tri-ball34

[Richard Montgomery]

Once I "sold" a small Sikhote Alin shrapnel specimen for $24/gram...ahem, I 
almost choked;  two separate entities bidding it up and up (it was a nice 
20cents/gram piece...and it was Ebay that pulled it.  I'm not sure how they 
figured it out.  (No, I wasn't going to accept that kind of payment anyway!)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yinan Wang" <veomega at gmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Warning, Warning tri-ball34


>I usually have a non-payer in about 1 out of every 250 sales. It's
> almost always someone who's new or has a very low number. I'd have to
> assume its someone who doesn't know how it all works, or is a kid, or
> occasionally its someone who initially was alright but had an
> unfortunate accident or such.
>
> Here's a famous example. a 5 year old uses buy-it-now to win a $1
> million Transformers collection:
> http://www.pr-inside.com/year-old-canadian-boy-buys-million-r187248.htm
>
> I did see someone bid crazy for a short period of time in the fossil
> section of ebay a year or two ago, but based on their bidding pattern
> of big dinosaur fossils, fake fossils, and toys, I assumed it was a
> kid discovering his parent's ebay account.
>
> I don't think Tri-ball is ebay itself.... That would be considered
> shill bidding and is illegal in most states.
>
> -YvW
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:49 AM,  <valparint at aol.com> wrote:
>> Creep!
>>
>> It brings up the question - how frequently do Ebay sales fall through? 
>> I've sold a fair amount of non-meteorite things on Ebay and everyone 
>> paid. Anybody have any intel on this?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Paul Swartz
>>
>>> He bid up so many of my items that I thought the meteorite
>>> market was recovering nicely. Now, that I have spent many hours opening 
>>> 23
>>> separate cases against him and undoing the damage, I see that the market 
>>> is
>>> about the same. It is amazing what kind of chaos a single bidder can 
>>> cause.
>>>
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