[meteorite-list] PSEUDO DEALERS AND PSEUDO JUDGING

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:20:58 2004
Message-ID: <3F049943.9010902_at_dlc.fi>

Hello, Dave and the list,

I have been in collecting business over 25 years, and have noticed, it´s
impossible to be partly a dealer / partly a collector in same items.

If you are a collector, you are collecting and you keep your specimens.
You can update the older ones for the better ones, no problem, or if you
happen to have purached a bigger lot, you sell / trade and buy the new
ones. The main thing is, as a collector, this is a hobby, and should be also
a great fun. The part of the fun is sharing, you give free information, free
samples, and what you get for that is nice "WOW", when a 8-years old
fellow gets his first real piece from space. When I have to sell a specimen
to pay my lunch, I´m not a collector anymore.

If you are a dealer, you can have a personal collection, no doubt. But if
somebody offers to you 10 x the current price for some specimen, you´ll
sell it, if not, you are not a wise dealer...;-

I was collecting minerals + gems over 20 years, and when it seems, it was
more dealing than collecting, I had to made a decission. So now I´m dealing
with the minerals + gems and collecting meteorites. Sure I have some
meteorites with
in shows, usually some bigger ones just to show and small fragments of
NWA:s
and so to give away for free to kids and why not also to older ones, if
they are
interrested in them. Sure I still have some mineral samples and gems,
I´m not very
willing to sell, but if somebody makes me an offer good enough, no prob,
he will
get even my wedding-ring...;-

So, when I´m in the show, I´m selling minerals, this is business, and
talking about
meteorites and give some information of them and also free samples, this
is my
fun part of the show. The day I have to sell a meteorite to pay my
lunch, I´m not
a collector anymore, and day after that you´ll find my collection for
sale on eBay...;-

take care,

pekka



David Freeman wrote:

> Dear List;
> A recent post seemed to repeatedly shuffle my quaff. How do we
> classify a dealer and why? If a person sells a few meteorites for
> money to buy more meteorites to add to his collection, is that a
> dealer? If a person like myself who sells a kilo or two a year to
> promote the hobby and make a buck (not much more than that) is that a
> dealer? Do we have to make a living, or a substantial part of our
> income from meteorites to be judged a true dealer? Seems to me that
> anyone who "deals" is a dealer. Suppose in the old times to some of
> us, sell three and get the forth one for free.
> Any comments welcomed.
> Works for me, Dave Freeman
> (no big deal)
> WMA sales professional of the year
>
>
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