Re: another gteta Paypal expereince

[frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>]

I am collecting money to establish a grant to help Italian 
Paleontologist Fabio Marco Dalla Veccia who needs financial help 
studying a basal Hadrosaurian from the upper Santonian of Italy 
nicknamed "Antonio" .  Fabio is a highly regarded paleontologist.

The best way to do this (so far) is to send the checks to me.  I am 
taking US checks of any amount made out to me, Frank Bliss sent to my 
address at 1107 Parks Rd. Weston Wyoming.  Notation on the bottom 
"grant for Antonio".  I have established a bank account in my name in 
which I will collect funds.  I will eventually, (when we reach about 
1000 bucks) send Fabio a bank transfer ($50 buck expense) and post an 
accounting on the DML with the donor and amount (to keep me honest ;-)  
) and I will make the bank statement available to anyone who wants a 
copy.

I think that overseas DML'ers might want to consider the paypal option. 
 Fabio's paypal account is:  fabdalla@tin.it   I don't like the paypal 
option though because there is no DML control over the amounts sent and 
no accounting except by the recipient.   It is my hope that there will 
be excess funds and we can establish future grants under the DML 
umbrella.

Frank Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming

PS,  I just found a huge potential new Hell Creek microsite at 8 am 
this morning.  On a hunch, (being systematic), I looked at an isolated 
hill (with very little outcrop showing) way over on the edge of my 
ranch.  I immediately found and followed the trail of bone fragments 
right to the top, I spent only an hour surface collecting an area a few 
hundred feet by a hundred feet and brought back a over a dozen misc 
teeth of all kinds, a baby ceratopsian jaw fragment!!!, a medium sized 
ceratopsian vert (partial), croc stuff galore, turtle stuff all over 
hundreds of gar scales (in one place over a hundred in a square 
foot!!!).  It looks to be the future standard by which all other 
microsites are judged as it crowns the very top of the hill and will be 
very easy to excavate.  It is huge.  Yeeeehaaaa.  This site is at least 
a hundred and fifty feet statigraphically above my regular microsite 
gullies and has to be just under the K/T boundary.  There are 
unquestionable dinosaur teeth/bones within this deposit though and 
unless they are reworked, it is K in age.  It's field season!


On May 20, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Michael Schmidt wrote:

> If it was decided that Paypal was the best thing to use to send money 
> to our European friend...here's another reason not to:
>
>
>
> > PayPal just pulled $998 from my account for two crystal orders I 
> > shipped to a Steven Lawson in New Orleans, LA.  It looks like a long, 
> > uphill battle to recover my money, if I ever do.  Since the orders 
> > were over $250 they say I needed "Signature Confirmation" of delivery 
> > and will not honor the USPS delivery confirmation.  This is the only 
> > problem I've had in over three years with PayPal transactions.  
> > Beware, it can happen to anyone accepting payments from PayPal for 
> > your rocks!
> >
> > With appreciation & gratitude,
> > Stuart Schmitt
> > Sweet Surrender Crystal Mine
> > www.arcrystalmine.com
> > 60 Mary's Eagle Trail
> > Mount Ida, AR 71957
> > (870) 867-2443