[meteorite-list] Response to fraudulent E-bay listing using my name (Impactika

[Brian Cox]

Hello Blaine, Anne and Richard, list,

Blaine, that's very unfortunate that you have to deal with hooligans who 
misrepresented information and added the Ni to your card when you wrote down 
the information for them. I'm sure you'll figure out a better way for 
yourself in the future and you've probably decided to never write anything 
on your card or with your name or information that morons like these 
characters can use fraudulently to discredit your good name. It's sad that 
we have to deal with a group of get-rich-quick greedy goofballs trying to 
run for office in our government let alone the same mentality of imbeciles 
trying to sell earth rocks as meteorites.

I hope you get a response from ebay, but that fraudulent section on ebay 
auctions only generates an automatic response email to you and you can't 
reply back to it. I'll send you a separate email with a contact at ebay who 
can hopefully help you out.

Have a great day and I hope the listing is pulled.

All the best!

Brian








Message: 1
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:39:26 -0600
From: Impactika <impactika at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [IMCA] Response to fraudulent E-bay listing using my name
To: imca at imcamail.de
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Hello Members,

A few days ago Richard Montgomery brought to my attention that someone was 
selling a "meteorite" on Ebay using Blaine Reed's name. I forwarded the 
information to Blaine, and here is his response, below.
Thank you Richard.
And please do let us know if you all see any other similar problems on Ebay.
Thank you.

Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com
President of IMCA
www.IMCA.cc


In a message dated 03/30/11 15:20:11 Mountain Daylight Time, 
brmeteorites at yahoo.com writes:
Hi everybody,

I just got home from another long trip to find people asking me about this 
fraudulent E-Bay listing using my name.

I did indeed do analysis work on three different pieces of the same stuff 
for these people at the Tucson show. The results were given, as shown, as 
simply written on the back of my card. HOWEVER, these jerks ADDED the Ni 
next to the Fe to what I had written and claimed that the number represented 
the combination of Fe and Ni. There was NO nickel what so ever in any of the 
three samples.

I told them several times point blank that they DO NOT HAVE A METEORITE. 
What they had was a quite titanium rich magnetite. I also told them (as a 
consolation of sorts) that, if there was enough of this stuff where they 
found it, they may have the makings of a titanium mine.

I guess this is a serious blow to my model of offering analysis of specimens 
for the public. It seems that there is no way I can stop these delusional 
idiots from misrepresenting or outright falsifying the data I give them (as 
these people did). I may have to reconsider my plans for offering this 
service (or how I handle delivering the data at the very least).

I want to ask people out there to keep an eye out for these jokers offering 
this stuff again and let me know if they do (brmeteorites at yahoo.com). I have 
tried to file a complaint with E-Bbay on this listing, but was only given 
100 characters (about a dozen words) to describe my problem/ issue with the 
listing! No way I can explain to the don't give a damn people at Ebay in 
that little space. I'll try again none the less if someone lets me know 
about a similar listing while it is still active.

Thanks or your help and understanding (that i would never give the thumbs up 
to something so obviously bogus).

Blaine