[meteorite-list] Warning, Warning tri-ball34

[Dennis Miller]

If any of you sellers are subscribing to some sort of reverse email look-up, this
guy is probably dumb enough to use his email name on ebay. Might try,
tri-ball34 at hotmail.com or one of the other links. Might get lucky in narrowing
down where this schmuck is located.
Dennis Miller
 


> From: rickmont at earthlink.net
> To: veomega at gmail.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:40:37 -0800
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Warning, Warning tri-ball34
> 
> 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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