Hello - they Started calling me 'Rock' on eBay, and I own an LLC Called "Rockproperties USA LLC". It was only today - more than a month after MellowYellow posted this thread, that a friend pointed it out to me.. First of all, there are at least a few misconceptions about who we are and what we do in this thread: "Rockproperties", along with eBay's sales platform, places well over 100 Placer and/or Lode Gold Mining Claims into satisfied customers hands each year. We develop each and every Mining Claim we bring to market: we own just about everything we sell. I grew up in Butte County, California on the West Branch of the Feather River & Butte Creek: sites of some of the many very rich ancient river/placer deposit areas of the CA Gold Rush & still producing today. (Wish there were more public lands on the lower Butte Creek
I want to chat about a few things, but first about Mellow Yellows' comments: He is absolutely correct, I REALLY dropped the ball on our business together. First, working late in the evening I misinterpreted plat map data that caused my first offering to Mellow to be invalid. Trying again, we missed again and now I've got a highly critical and unhappy miner in my hands! He was refunded and we expressed our apologies. I don't think that any company -Rockproperties included- can have a 100% Customer-happiness Record. It isn't possible. Seen the 'returns line' at Walmart lately? We do not experience anything like that level of a return rate, yet Walmart is the biggest, most successful retailer in the U.S. You get the point: I goofed, somebody decided to get get angry and now Rockproperties is on 'Treasure Net' getting barbed for selling garbage..?? Anyway - no biggie I guess we are all human. I want to say something else real quickly - and this is in support of everyone who prospects, everyone who buys or sells mining claims, mining equipment, picks, pans, shovels and any kind of Metals-Detecting Equipment in the United States. We all contribute to what I'm about to say, but I'm going to express it in the context of my company, "Rockproperties": As I already told you, Rock places over 100 Mining Claim Properties into prospectors' hands each & every year. By doing so, Rockproperties USA LLC alone creates literally hundreds of interested and new voting miners/members to our 'Group' of people! Power is found in numbers, and when we pause to consider scary new legislation concerning such agendas as the possible outlawing of Power Suction Dredging (California), BLM Mining Claim Fee Raises (everywhere - small miners waivers' next??), USFS Legislation regarding access, water turbidity, mine shaft closure (safety is important, but did I get a vote on this??), and who-knows what else is coming down the pike concerning these and other 'issues' - please remember; with the possible exception of good outfits and forums like the GPAA & other mining clubs and online forums such as 'Treasure Net' - Mining Claim & Mining Equipment sellers probably do more to strengthen us as a group than any other single entity, by enlisting new, hopefully voting/supporting members into our group. Rockproperties is a team with team members who work on our offerings in both California and South Dakota. We're family guys who cut our teeth in Gold-Rich counties in our American West..we developed a business 100% in support of what we do as a group, (ALL of us benefit with new membership as "miners" and "prospectors") and we have integrity as a company as well. Yes, I screw up..'Slow' and 'Mr. Sidetracked' can be operative terms for 'Rock' of Rockproperties..my apologies - right now I'm taking the time to write this. But it's because we DO care, we ARE responsible and we are NOT lacking in integrity that I do this. Please remember - sometime, someone will have a bad experience with every company that sells something. But the big picture here to us, is that we should remember to stay strong as a group. We got axed in California (dredging fiasco) by some tribe in the NW simply because us Miners didn't have enough muscle as a group to contend with the opposition. We might have if we'd turned out in more numbers though: to have a louder Voice for Good. Rockproperties wishes you the best and we get excited when YOU succeed!!.. Thank You, 'Rock' of Rockproperties USA LLC
..and..I think this is important too: most folks only buy on eBay, and do not know how eBay operates concerning their all-independant sellers; Rock sells in the 'Real Estate' category on eBay, and the eBay team REALLY watches us! There are a lot of unscrupulous sellers in the world - there ALWAYS were! To Rocks' experience, eBay is likely the safest place to buy Anything online - eBay does NOT tolerate unscrupulous sales/sellers for even 1 day if they are aware of issues and they do pay attention!
