Hello all
I no have problems, I collect all meteorites, is this
NWA, DaG's, Sahara etchistorical, fall's, found's
etcbut no like the prices of the meteorites go in
ruin. I repeat, is no possible a CR2, year ago minimum
you buy for $200/gr. now you pay under $30/gr., under
this way the total market go to the ruin. If I buy a
CR2 from a moroccan person for only $8/gr. - example -
is good for me, but I no sale this for $16/gr., I sale
for $150 or $200. Under this way, at few time you find
lunars for a price of a rare eucrite - type $300/gr. -
and SNC for a normaly achondrite, and this is no good.
Regards
matteo
--- Rhett Bourland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I couldn't agree more with Bernd's statements here
concerning people always
worrying and bickering about prices of meteorites.
Plain and simple, how
much is a certain meteorite worth? However much
someone will pay for it.
You don't get much more of an open market than with
meteorites. I recently
bought a piece of Lodran (thanks Steve Arnold!) that
cost a bit more than
I'm used to spending. Commercially speaking, was it
worth it? Probally not
but I really don't care because I didn't have any of
this type of meteorite
in my collection. Am I going to get angry at Steve
because he charged a lot
for it and call him greedy and say he's just so evil
for it? OF COURSE
NOT!!! I gave him a little more money than I would
have prefferred but much
much much more importantly I got a piece of this
rare meteorite that I've
been wanting for quite some time. Hey, for all
that, I'm actually happy to
kick in a little bit of a reward for him there for
getting such an amazing
and rare meteorite.
I'm mostly a collector but do sell a few meteorites
from time to time and
have some on my asteroidmodels.com site right now.
Admittedly, some of them
are rather pricey but others are right at market
value (market value being
what I see most other people charging) if not below
it. For obvious reasons
I don't want to go into details about how much or
how I aquired all of these
but I will say that some of my larger proffits have
come from meteorites
that sold out in a day or two. Am I evil and greedy
because I made a decent
proffit from them? I don't think so because the
people that bought them
certainly seemed happy enough to have the pieces I
sold them even though
they may have payed a bit more than the average
meteorite. In fact, some of
the people who bought them have also bought some of
the other meteorites
that I've had for sale and they always seem happy
enough to just have the
meteorites that they get.
My point in this email is this; if you're going to
argue about anything
concerning the NWA's argue about lack of a detailed
recovery vs. volume of
meteorites now in our collective possessions. Don't
argue about who's the
greedier dealer. Its simple, A meteorite, any
meteorite be it NWA or
classic historical fall of an extremely rare type,
is worth however much
someone will pay for it. If you think a meteorite
costs too much don't buy
it. Some of the pricier pieces in my collection I'm
sure dealers have made
some pretty good money off of me but I really
couldn't care less because
that just means that I have another wonderful rock
from another world that I
wouldn't be able to own without them.
My 2 cents,
Rhett Bourland
www.asteroidmodels.com
www.asteroidmodels.com/personal
www.meteoritecollectors.org
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Bernd
Pauli HD
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 6:02 AM
To: LABENNE METEORITES
Cc: dean bessey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [meteorite-list] Hot Desert Meteorites
Luc a écrit:
... and about the NWA, those returned recently
from Marocco
say that the quantity they saw in not so bigger
that before.
Bonjour Luc, Hello List,
I was just reading Christian Pinter's article about
the 2001 Mineral and
Gem Show in Munic in Meteorite, Feb 2002, Vol. 8,
No. 1, pp. 38-39,
when your post arrived here. There are three remarks
in Christian's
article that I would like to share with all of us:
1. Bruno:
But today there is only one tenth of what
had been found in Morocco two years ago.
2. Ahmed Pani:
There is really less material coming from the
Sahara now.
3. Erich Haiderer:
There is still enough out there for decades to
come.
For me there are not good or bad meteorites, there
are well documented or
poorly documented meteorites, well preserved or
weathered meteorites, nice
or bad looking meteorites and scientifically
important or not meteorites,
with
all the intermediate states.
I absolutely agree with the above words! Very often
conversations about
our love for meteorites oscillate between how
exotic, common, or
historical they are, and, on the other hand we
complain (!) about the
decreasing prices and monetary values of our Hot
