What are these ebay pearls?

[lisa c]

Oh, I agree with your points. I don't think I'd want to have further dealings with any of that lot, even via posts.

[Caitlin]

The last link is to one of his own blogs. He fights with everyone and threatens everyone he fights. Did you notice, in his last message, he threatened to write a blog specifically to hate on me, (or Pearl-Guide)? I doubt it will be findable unless you google him. The level of inner turmoil shown on his own blog is enough to make want to stand back and let him keep shooting his own feet.

eek.

[lisa c]

Hoooboy! I quit reading before I got that far, it was distasteful stuff...I'll have to check it out. Imagine, a blog to hate Caitlin!

What different worlds the two of you inhabit! One helpful, one hateful...

[Amanda]

Caitlin, you make me smile. Love, love, love it when you get your dander up!

Go Caitlin, Go Caitlin!

A third vote up for Caitlin here!

[Caitlin]

Thanks guys, Lisa I edited your post to take out identifiable words. Sorry. But I don't want to get my various lives mixed up together.
I got into too much due due with this one. And of course P-G is responsible for only the posts I made as Admin, not as myself- if that, even. I am responsible for what I say here under my own name.

[Admin]

This guy sounds like quite a character. Good job Caitlin. You were well within your rights to call his auction fraudulent. Selling Chinese freshwater pearls as South Sea pearls is fraudulent. No matter what the guy says, I believe the chances are close to ZERO that he did not know what he was selling. Freshwater pearls have never been grown in Indonesia, and 14 years ago we didn't run across large freshwater pearls like that. So he knowingly was lying. Those pearls most likely came from China in the last year.

So yes, in my opinion, that also calls into question everything he sells on eBay. His aggressive responses are not one of an innocent person. He knows what he did.

Sue away Majabali, lol.

[Caitlin]

Obviously, I am not the admin that wrote that. So thanks!

[lisa c]

Hi Caitlin, no sweat, glad you were able to do it ;-)

[Ramona]

It seems I missed a lot of the action. At least the silver may be real, stolen, antique silver, then?

[lisa c]

Naughty, Ramona!

[Ramona]

Just can't help myself.

[dkan 168]

Obviously, I am not the admin that wrote that. So thanks!

Kevin?

DK

[Caitlin]

OK I got two more nasties through the eBay system. I just want to record them here.

Caitlin,

I'm afraid that it is you who has been harassing us, both by way of your eBay sent e-mails, and the publishing of those e-mails along with additional comments on your forum. Furthermore you even admit on your forum that you have no professional credentials, nor have you taken any GIA courses to qualify yourself as "an expert"...this all being published in your post #23.

Your initial contact with us through eBay was both accusatory and threatening. Because questions were raised about our pearls, we did the right thing and closed the listing, yet accusations from you (and others) on your forum persist, and now you say that any further contact by us will be regarded as harassment by you?

Dear lady, you a very odd sense of what's fair, and what isn't fair.

Getting back to these peals, another poster (yet another admin member of your forum) has written, "Freshwater pearls have never been grown in Indonesia, and 14 years ago we didn't run across large freshwater pearls like that."

I can document that we purchased these strings on Lombok 14 years ago from a pearl farmer stricken with illness. Take that as face value and truth.

Also, the chances of them coming into Lombok from China 14 years ago are very remote. In fact, even literature (books, magazines, newspapers, whatever) written in Chinese was prohibited from entry into Indonesia back then. There is no way that these pearls could have been legally imported from China into Indonesia 14 years ago.

One more time...please remove that entire string from your forum and we'll consider this matter as concluded and you'll not be hearing from us again.
- majabali

Subject: Re: Details about item: OUTSTANDING HOARD OF BAROQUE SOUTH SEA PEARLS #251087953290
Sent Date: Jun-23-12 18:40:03 PDT

Dear majabali,

I specifically said I didn't know if they were true claims, what got me is that someone hates you so much they started blogs to hate on you, not whether they are true or not. you haven't sued him- He did the damage to your reputation, not me- I was just passing links for googling majabali. I am done posting on this matter and done engaging with you.

I will consider any further messages from you as harassment.

Also ask yourself why we are still allowed to remain on eBay, and have been able to establish our excellent feedback reputation?

Unfortunately, on your forum you have jumped to conclusions which are not only totally wrong, but are libelous and slanderous and I cannot allow them to stand. I am confident that once you do a little homework you'll see for yourself that the only appropriate thing for you to do is to remove that entire string on your forum, which has now gotten entirely out of hand.

You write, "He probably can't sue anyone while he is in Bali" and you are terribly wrong again. As a legal US citizen with a legal address in California I most certainly can initiate a lawsuit in the US. That is not my desire, but it is surely an available remedy to me.

OK Here is my answer:

nanny nanny boo boo. If I get any more eBay emails from you- or ever hear from you for any reason, again, I will change the name of the thread to: "Watch out for eBay seller Majabali," and make it a sticky. This will get it to the top of the search results for your eBay username and seriously hurt your business.



On the other hand, you can hope people quit posting in this thread and it will slip away and go where all old threads go...

[lisa c]

P.S. Taking something at "face value" means that one doesn't look further than what can be seen on the surface. He uses the phrase rather triumphantly, but incorrectly if he's meaning 'You can't argue with this. It's fact, I win.'

The phrase doesn't mean "this is factual" or "this is evidence/documentation" or "this has been investigated".

If he owns and writes BaliBullocks , his writings are liberally sprinkled with Malapropisms. I read them, all that were posted, though I didn't see anything with a recent date. They seem to pose as investigative journalism.

Oh well, this has run its course anyway; blustering about sick pearl farmers won't make these pearls SouthSeas.

[Caitlin]

fraudulent

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fraud·u·lent

   [fraw-juh-luhnt]
adjective 1. characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.

2. given to or using fraud, as a person; cheating; dishonest.

synonyms
1, 2. deceitful, deceptive, crooked, underhanded.