[meteorite-list] Meteoritic Misadventure

From: Michael Masse <mjmasse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:31 2004
Message-ID: <001301c26431$4afc0280$5b5a0844_at_sd.cox.net>

Pleased to hear that you too use a stopwatch when bidding on
desired specimens...sorry you missed...m

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Pauli HD" <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "meteorite list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 1:45 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteoritic Misadventure


> Hello All!
>
> I think I should have waited for another of Mark's contests, but, ...
> I would like to share this with you. Last night I was watching one
> of Philippe Thomas' EBay items - a superb chondritic specimen,
> weighing about half a kilogram ... a veritable dream of a regmaglypted
> meteorite. One side was showing a rusty brown, weathered fusion crust,
> the other half was almost dark and fresh with what looked like flow
> lines! ... and those regmaglypts!
>
> Part of the crust was broken away and seemed to show a secondary
> crust. Oh boy (and gals :-), how I envy the one who got it !!! In
> any case, there I was ... sitting with a stop watch in my hands :-))
> (believe it or not) placing my bid amount of US$ 120 in the last
> few seconds when I suddenly got an Ebay message with something like
> "Having trouble with your bid amount". I had so very much concentrated
> on that !*§$! stop watch that should make it possible for me to win that
> item that I forgot that other bidders would raise the bidding amount
> during the last few seconds ...
>
> :-) :-( :-) :-( :-) :-(
>
> Moral: You can't always win, or:
>
> A stitch in time saves nine (No, not always) ...
>
> No further comments, and, no pun intended,
>
> Bernd
>
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Received on Tue 24 Sep 2002 09:17:18 PM PDT