Definitely
CBS
----- Original Message -----
From: frhinkle <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: Fast Eddie


> DEAR ALL,
> Would other members of the net like to know of past "BAD"
> people to deal with? I don't know if they are still around
> but it might be good info.
> Fred in MN
>
> ----------
> > From: Carol Simpson <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Fast Eddie
> > Date: Sunday, November 21, 1999 6:17 PM
> >
> > The "fast Eddie" I knew was Ed Theiler from Long Island,
> NY.  I would like
> > to say from the very beginning that he never cheated
> me..but here's the
> > story.
> >
> > I started our shell club in '87.  Donald Dan asked me to
> write a little
> > article for the Am. Conch., which I did.  Shortly after
> it came out, I had a
> > letter from this guy-Ed Theiler.  He wrote bad things
> about the Long Island
> > Shell Club and its members and wanted to know if he could
> join our club.  He
> > told me he owned either a bunch of boats or trucks (can't
> remember which)
> > and he furnished fish to the NYC restaurants.  First of
> all, I figured if he
> > was doing that he should have been able to afford
> stationery, 'cause he
> > wrote on note book paper.  Secondly, when he sent his
> dues, he sent a money
> > order.  He also sent me a picture of himself--WHOA
> Nellie!!!!  And one
> > Sunday he called me from a pay phone--big tycoon from
> Long Island.  Well, he
> > still hadn't done anything wrong.  So he paid his dues
> and wanted the
> > members to swap shells with him.  I think a couple of
> others did, as did I.
> > I really enjoyed this swapping, and was making out like a
> bandit!!!  Then I
> > had a letter from him wanting to swap me a noble
> wentletrap for a precious
> > wentletrap. He said he had the noble wentletrap. When
> something's too good
> > to be true, it usually is.  And that's when I stopped the
> trading.
> >
> > I went to COA in Ft. Myers that year and happened to be
> sitting with some
> > members of the LISC and Mr. Theiler's name was brought
> up.  I REALLY got an
> > ear full, especially about their shell show, and the fact
> that shells were
> > missing and presumed stolen.  (I believe it was Helen
> Madow I was talking
> > to.)
> >
> > I have since heard other stories about him, but like I
> said, I got out of
> > the trading while I was ahead.  When I didn't answer his
> letter about the
> > epis., I never heard from him again.
> >
> > Carol
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Andrew Grebneff
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 5:40 PM
> > Subject: Fast Eddie
> >
> >
> > > Can someone who knows all about this Fast Eddie please
> give all of us what
> > > we need to know to identify him in correspondence, and
> what his tactics
> > > are? What aliases does he use? Where does he live? What
> is his e-mail
> > > address, if any?
> > >
> > > You could save some of us a lot of grief, expense and
> wasted specimens!
> > >
> > > Andrew G