On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:31:57 +0100, "Meteoriteshow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>However I agree that the price of a meteorite is definitely what someone is >ready to pay for it at a certain time. When we found our first meteorites in I think it's a somewhat ironic collision of cultures. I've (sadly) never been to the Middle East, but I would assume that it is at least similar to what I've seen/read-- in that haggling for price is the rule, not the exception, in making private deals (though I'm sure that the actual stores, say, Abdul-Mart, has fixed prices). So the seller of anything starts out with a higher price than they expect to get, hoping to have a sucker, and the buyer negotiates until you reach a price that both can live with. But when you get back to the US with it, you are in the land of "if you don't want to pay what the sticker says, go away". If you try to get a lower price than what is asked for, you are thought of either as cheap, or a jerk, or maybe a cheap jerk. I see web sites with items listed there a couple of years ago still listed there today, and Ebay auctions for the exact same item being listed over and over for the exact same price. It would seem to me that the reason the items in question have never sold for those prices over that lenght of time is because nobody is willing to PAY that price. But, having settled on sticker price x, the seller would prefer to keep the item in storage until the sun burns out rather than change the price. I'm not saying that one system is better than the other, just observing. >To my opinion, there are so many parameters that interfere with the price of >meteorites, that it is almost impossible to find a 'market price' for them. I think that sellers on Ebay such as the Hupes have found the perfect way to determine the true market value of meteorites. Start the auctions at 99 cents (or so) with no reserve. What someone ends up willing to pay for the piece will then turn out to be what someone is willing to pay for the piece. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
