Steph

Ebay's final answer on my questions. From their Trust and Safety forum.

He's a low volume seller & will be stopped if he has a couple claims. All we've established is he steals photos. The co that made your marble made them for 70 years so he might have it. Since he does not respond & has no items for sale, & you've already decided not to pay him, let the other buyers take care of him & they will if there's a problem.

They really don't understand marble collectors, do they? lol. Peltier made Golden Rebels for 70 years? And if the seller does actually have a golden rebel to send, I wouldn't have any grounds to complain even though it wouldn't be the one in the photo he stole from Joe's site?

File your claims everyone! Get them on the record!

That would make an interesting topic. (hint hint ;-) Heck, no hint. I'm going to break this off as a new topic. I have the power. muwahahah

I once asked about them on Marble Mental. Back then the definition of a calligraphy marble was fairly specific but showing signs of loosening up. I personally don't know what all counts as calligraphy these days. It'll be nice to see.

LOL. That 3 little pigs one is hilarious.

The painting of you and Weldon and the marble tree is wonderful.

Anyone know the true owners of these?

Anyone know the true owners of these?

I googled his name together with his town and came up with a street address. However, I can't vouch for it being his current residence.

Found em. Yes, they were Morphy marbles. That's a great thing about distinctive backgrounds.

"Marbles:Christensen Agate Banded Transparent 5/8''"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280568679658

http://www.icollector.com/Christensen-Agate-Banded-Transparent-Marble_i8466241

"Marbles:Christensen Agate Swirl 5/8'' Mint"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270642550225

http://www.icollector.com/Christensen-Agate-Swirl-Marble_i8466238

Could someone help me pin these two down?

Are they from grandpamarble? I'll look but I'm a little flustered trying to keep up with all the links and match everything. To me this background looks like they could have come from Morphy's. Any sleuthing help would be appreciated.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270642550225

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280568679658

What is the exact site / ebay store / whatever , from which the grandpamarbles came?

I'm having trouble finding them.

(sorry for the triple posting of this. I'm putting it in all the relevant threads hoping the right person will see. Need it to tell ebay.)

What is the exact site / ebay store / whatever , from which the grandpamarbles came?

I'm having trouble finding them.

(sorry for the triple posting of this. I'm putting it in all the relevant threads hoping the right person will see. Need it to tell ebay.)

What is the exact site / ebay store / whatever , from which the grandpamarbles came?

I'm having trouble finding them.

Lucky.

p.p.s. they say they'll email you a transcript of the live chat session. However the version I got was truncated. So if you want a full copy of your session, you should probably save it directly yourself.

I wish I had the full transcript so I could have the exact wording for why my helper wouldn't be able to report the scam to ebay. The answer was something like, "We can't do that because the ebay format is based on trust." . . Irony. ar ar.

I just had a live chat session with them. Their advice was to pay for the transaction or take a negative feedback. The feel of the chat session wasn't as brutal or heartless as that, but that's a pretty close to what was actually said. (Side thought: can the seller give negative feedback other than the non-paying-bidder report?)

Well, after I got off chat I saw your message and so then I called the number you gave, Clyde. The recording directed me to live chat. However, they also have a number to fax requests to if one has legal issues: 408-376-7514 (if I caught the number correctly).

p.s., Galen, did he ever call you back?

Cool Winnie. Dave, your examples go a long way to clearing up some of the questions I had. Stacy, I don't know what names they might have.

Have a great day!

I can PM you what ebay gave me for contact information. I haven't confirmed that the phone number works. You wanna?

(PM sent)

I think I found the spelling for the (or one of the) bobbie's ID's in an old thread. Here.

Paul, just checking - this one, right?

So, looks like we have:

mikeswestvirginiamarbles (current)

wvmarbles (current)

bobbieswestvirginiamarbles (past)

Anyone else?

Does anyone know any or all of mikeswvmarbles ID's, past and present?

The ones I recall have been variations on the wvmarbles theme but I don't know them exactly. There was one which started with "bobbie", right? Was that one he was using?

Thanks for any help.

Does anyone have any with amber bases which they are sure/confident/hopeful are Vitro?

Answering my own question: eight fingers

Anyone have other amber based possibilities?

Here are some other views of that blue/yellow marble.

So it didn't even have green?

There's still something about it which makes me uncertain. I really don't know what to say.

whom are you asking?

For the record, here's one of the pix from ebay. Size is given as 9/16".

Cosmic! Love 'em!

Very interesting. Thanks!