Amber Listserv / Chinese fakes

[David Cross]

Hi Guys,
Regarding amber fakes, my wife and I sell amber gems and jewellery at gem shows and markets and take along a chinese fake to support our crusade against fake amber. It is a perfectly positioned scorpion in a lump of plastic that has the alluring aroma of polystyrene when "hot needled". Every time we show the fake someone wants to BUY it! Sadly there are those out there with more money than sense and the trade will continue. Having said that, the more educating and lobbying that can be done by amberphiles to reduce the deception perpetrated by these traders the better. So, more power to your elbow, Mark, we'll certainly be continuing the crusade "down under"
Cheers
Dave in Oz

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andy Ng 
  To: Mark Collins 
  Cc: Amber Forum 
  Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:17 AM
  Subject: Re: Amber Listserv / Chinese fakes


  Good luck, Mark. A most noble endeavor. I had railed at Ebay (and another local auction site) in the past for the fake timepieces they allowed to be auctioned, but achieved naught. Hopefully you'll have better luck with the amber issue. I still think consumer education and awareness are the key to it all...keep the gullible masses from being misled into buying, and the fake sellers will dissappear when demand for their items drops to zero. 

  Andy


  On 11/29/06, Mark Collins <collinsmarko at hotmail.com> wrote:

    Perhaps ebay will take more note of amber fakes if we hit them from several angles. I have contacted them before with a similar message to Saulius' message, and I got the same response. So I decided to take matters into my hands.

    Obviously it's impossible to educate every bidder on ebay. However if the same 3 or 4 main fake sellers keep getting responses from winning bidders, questioning the authenticity of their auctions. They'll be thinking "what the heck is going on here?" And it just might eventually make it too disparaging for them to keep listing fake specimens.

    Fingers crossed,

    Mark

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