[Rockhounds] What do you do about falsely advertised eBay items?

[betdav97 at aol.com]

My solution is: don't visit E-Bay, and I am proud of it,
dave


-----Original Message-----
From: RicSchager at aol.com
To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:33 pm
Subject: [Rockhounds] What do you do about falsely advertised eBay 
items?



_Topaz  Garnet Quartz Realgar Amethyst Chrysocolla Amber - eBay (item
180333600754 end  time Mar-13-09 08:38:43 PDT)_
(http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180333600754)

The above link is for a mining claim in Washington about 25 miles from  
where
I live in Washington. I've prospected for gold in Money Creek, with 
sparse
gold fines and flour found. And there is some quartz, mostly leaverite. 
  It'
certainly not a "gem mine" that produces amber, topaz, etc.  As an  
example,
Washington's only amber producing area is several mountains to the  
south, and
just how many of you collectors have topaz from Money Creek? The  
answer, of
course, is none.

Seller (from Texas) responded to my message by offering his 
professional
services to find these gems - but I know that they would have to be 
salted in
order to be found there.

There's a large number of false eBay ads. Sometimes an ad will  
irritate me
enough to contact the seller - usually they just don't know any  better 
and
correct their ad. Sometimes they acknowledge it's incorrect, but  won't 
fix
their
ad because they want to recoup their investment,  etc. because that's 
how it
was sold to them.  And then there are ads  like this one (actually he 
has
two)...

Rich.
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