robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Jan 30, 2017 16:20:47 GMT -5
Hi all my name is Roberto Casanova, from rome and milan Italy, this forum is very nice , tks all'. Roberto Casanova.
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 31, 2017 1:10:36 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum. Are you in to rock tumbling or cabbing?
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Post by wigglinrocks on Jan 31, 2017 1:14:38 GMT -5
Welcome to the RTH
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robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Jan 31, 2017 4:42:01 GMT -5
tks all
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 31, 2017 6:27:54 GMT -5
Welcome Robert! Do you do any rock hounding there? I have no idea what kind of rocks can be found in Italy.
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robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Jan 31, 2017 10:00:25 GMT -5
hello, I am a seeker of rocks in Italy are, Here in Italy there are many beautiful and interesting rocks, I love the Roman imperial porphyry and porphyry ancient greek, green porphyry
unfortunately I do not speak your language well, I hope not to have said anything bad writing ebay. tks . roberto casanova
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 31, 2017 11:27:40 GMT -5
To post pictures, you have to use a photo hosting site like Flickr. Flickr allows almost unlimited storage for free. Once your pictures are uploaded, use the share button (it's a little curved arrow) to get the BBCode. Copy the BBCode and paste it here.
Your English is fine. It's fun to have people from other parts of the world here. Most of us are from the USA.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jan 31, 2017 11:41:02 GMT -5
Welcome aboard Roberto.
I spent about 3-1/2 years in Italy, stationed in Gaeta with the US Navy. They kept us pretty busy, so much to my regret I didn't have a chance to hunt rocks in your country.
Don
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jan 31, 2017 11:42:12 GMT -5
Don't worry, there are plenty of people born in the US who don't use English so well either. Welcome to the forum.
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QuailRiver
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Post by QuailRiver on Jan 31, 2017 13:33:44 GMT -5
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robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Jan 31, 2017 14:20:30 GMT -5
QuailRiver hello, thank you for your answer, but I don't understand where I went wrong, please why you called trafficker
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Post by QuailRiver on Jan 31, 2017 15:14:32 GMT -5
QuailRiver hello, thank you for your answer, but I don't understand where I went wrong, please why you called trafficker Because of your falsely misleading titles and descriptions. For example: You use "Damele Turquoise" (one of the more rare and expensive of the Turquoises) in your titles, as well as "Malachite" and "Variscite" to plant the seed of high value in the mind of potential but naive buyers. And just because you add a question mark "?" here and there, and claim uncertainly, to cover yourself legally doesn't relieve you your obligations to do the research and make every effort to use as accurate of labels as possible. Any honest seller would! One can type "Damele Turquoise" into a Google search and within less than 60 seconds find out that Damele Turquoise is from the Damele Mine in Nevada. Not from a river in Italy. You pretend to be unlearned about minerals, and fall back on the language bearer as excuses but yet you are savvy enough to find and sign up for this English language rock site and managed to find and use the name of "Damele Turquoise" for your river rock eBay listings? And there's more. You loosely use the words "ancient" and "artifact" in several of your eBay listing titles when those terms do not legitimately apply to the item being sold. As you did when you used the word "Artifact" to describe a palm sized piece of river rolled "Porphry" (which we call Chinese Writing Stone and is worth about $6 in the lapidary market) which you sold to some unfortunate trusting soul for $60 (plus $25 shipping) as "Porphyry imperial Paperweight PietraDura Roma egypt artifact stone Quartz". www.ebay.com/itm/Porphyry-imperial-Paperweight-PietraDura-Roma-egypt-artifact-stone-Quartz-/332040822590?nma=true&si=bOgInIETmO7f4VSCV4ZoUTgFesE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557I could continue with other examples of mis-labeled/over priced items in your listings www.ebay.com/sch/rivermanfound/m.html?item=332040822590&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 but fail to see the point in being redundant. Larry C.
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robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Jan 31, 2017 16:04:40 GMT -5
ok this is your opinion, and I respect your opinion, I used the word Damele because I'm not sure what he meant, now I know that is an American mine, so thanks I put turquoise and Damele, because they are very similar to rocks found by me in Italian river when you say that the greek porphyry stones or green porphyry, called Chinese stone, sorry but you make me laugh, you do not know the porphyry, better informed thanks. I do not force anyone to buy are serious, my clients always come back to buy the second and third object to me, why and what you want and look, what you say and very serious about me the artifact pieces, you know what it's like artifact? cmq repeat respect your opinion, but I do not allow you to give me the con man, you see the positive feedback please. you play on your strength, the English language, I can not answer any better than this. great detective, but I recommend doing research on the stones and not on me thanks. which we call Chinese Writing Stone and is worth about $6 in the lapidary market
the Chinese ?? lol , maybe you ricordono cartoons drawings, but those are crystals. roberto casanova
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QuailRiver
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Post by QuailRiver on Jan 31, 2017 22:39:38 GMT -5
ok this is your opinion, and I respect your opinion, I used the word Damele because I'm not sure what he meant, now I know that is an American mine, so thanks I put turquoise and Damele, because they are very similar to rocks found by me in Italian river when you say that the greek porphyry stones or green porphyry, called Chinese stone, sorry but you make me laugh, you do not know the porphyry, better informed thanks. I do not force anyone to buy are serious, my clients always come back to buy the second and third object to me, why and what you want and look, what you say and very serious about me the artifact pieces, you know what it's like artifact? cmq repeat respect your opinion, but I do not allow you to give me the con man, you see the positive feedback please. you play on your strength, the English language, I can not answer any better than this. great detective, but I recommend doing research on the stones and not on me thanks. which we call Chinese Writing Stone and is worth about $6 in the lapidary market the Chinese ?? lol , maybe you ricordono cartoons drawings, but those are crystals. roberto casanova The fact that Damele Turquoise comes from the Damele mine in Nevada is not an opinion. It is a FACT. And yet now that you do know what Damele Turquoise really is, you still haven't removed it from your misleading titles, nor have you changed the items falsely labeled "Malachite" and "Variscite". This speaks volumes of your intent. Follow your own advice and do some research yourself. "Chinese Writing Stone" is a trade name. So just Google it and learn something. It's not a rare material and sells for around $4 to $6 per pound for cutting cabochons from. Most of the regulars on this site have probably forgotten more about minerals than you have ever known. So don't expect to find any suckers here. Larry C.
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robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Feb 1, 2017 4:54:44 GMT -5
you only said one thing right, I have to change the insertion (Damele). the rest of your response and pure imagination, you have seen so many Chinese cartoons, I explained to you that it is not a Chinese stone, but it seems you do not understand, you do a lot of confusion try to better inform, there are books that speak of porphyry, andesite etc. , and it is not a common rock (I speak of stone, and not of hollow strands) know the difference? here on the forum, the only chicken is you, perhaps envious chicken. lol. you talk about price, but what price? the price is subjective, if I 10 porphyry costing $ 6, I find one that interests me I like to have the most beautiful drawings, I can pay 10 times more, but I do not understand you are blinded by envy. however, I have no intention of wasting any more time with you, I'm on this forum to learn and discover other stones other than Italy. if you want you can do your monologue. thanks for following my auctions, you want a (lacedaemonius or a krokeatis) Roberto Casanova. .. Advice now that you know what a krokeatis is a lacedaemonius, no more spoken of Chinese drawings or anything like that, tax to give the right term to things. I learned Damele. .stop
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QuailRiver
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Post by QuailRiver on Feb 1, 2017 10:23:57 GMT -5
Envious? LOL! Now that's funny! I have no desire to mislead people by trying to pass off river rocks and river debris as gemstones or ancient artifacts. Most of your current eBay listings have at least one false or misleading term or aspect. And not a single one of your listings labeled turquoise, or malachite, or variscite is actually real turquoise, malachite or variscite. And I suspect that you damn well know that they aren't. Envious of a huckster?...Never! It's people like you who give eBay and eBay sellers a bad name. So you want to learn? Great! Start with any one of the following 979,000 Google search returns for "Chinese Writing Stone" which IS the recognized trade name for this variety of Porphory. www.google.com/search?q=chinese+writing+stone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8Larry C.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 1, 2017 10:30:40 GMT -5
QuailRiver There is the possibility that he is truly ignorant, in which case he has come to the right place to learn. You're doing a great job with that so far.
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robertino123
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Post by robertino123 on Feb 1, 2017 11:38:51 GMT -5
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Post by metalsmith on Feb 1, 2017 14:09:25 GMT -5
I came here with high hopes, found only a shyster By the way 100% feedback only indicates that all of your unsuspecting buyers received what they expected, not that the items are in any way what you purport them to be. I occasionally buy cheap things from sellers such as you just so that I can expose you to the rest of the unsuspecting population of rock lovers. I hope you stick around, learn some stuff and change your ways.
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Post by metalsmith on Feb 1, 2017 14:25:59 GMT -5
Update: Bang goes another one...
I pay top dollar for the worlds best (affordable) stones. 99% and a bit more of the feedback I leave is overwhelmingly positive, reflecting good transactions with honest people. Rarely I'm brutally honest:
stones are around 1/4 the size of those pictured and all drill-split; misleading
Dear customer, Very sorry to bother you. We feel so sorry that you have left a negative feedback for us. Pls accept our sincere apologies to you for all the inconvenience caused.we would like to issue a full refund as a compensation to ease you, is that ok? Could you please kindly revise the feedback for us to all 5 stars? The reputation is so important to us. Your understanding and great help will be much appreciated. Looking forward to your reply. Best Regards
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