[meteorite-list] Re: [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20% offeverything on ...

From: Michael Cottingham <mikewren_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:23 2004
Message-ID: <000d01c38dc2$55a73860$b8d9ead8_at_hppav>

Hello,

DON'T YOU GET IT! THERE IS NO STABILITY
IN ANY MARKET.... That is Wishful thinking and an Illusion. Yeah my prices
might be lower next week and then again maybe not. You can wait or you can
buy...the choice is up to THE CUSTOMER. I don't care if my selling effects
other dealers.. that is their problem...AS I AM AFFECTED BY THEIR SELLING
PRACTICES!

MICHAEL BLOOD THESE ARE MY METEORITES TO DO WITH AS I WISH. TO SELL HOW I
SEE FIT!
The Customer can decide when the price is right for them or NOT. FREE WILL
MAN! FREE WILL.
Stop being Such a Crybaby about prices!

Michael Cottingham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "Michael Cottingham" <mikewren_at_gilanet.com>; <Sharkkb8@aol.com>;
<MeteoriteCollectors_at_yahoogroups.com>; "M come Meteorite Meteorites"
<mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20%
offeverything on ...


> Michael,
> Why don't I "PRAISE some of the CHEAPEST prices around?"
> Read my article this month in METEORITE TIMES. If you read that
> and STILL can't figure out why I don't "PRAISE some of the CHEAPEST
> prices around?" Let me make it clear right here:
> When you offer merchandise for a given price, then offer the
> same material later for less - then, if you don't sell all of it at that
> price, you offer it later for even less - over and over and over, as
> you do, Michael, you create several effects that go far beyond your
> personal reality.
> For one thing, you give buyers the message they should never buy
> now, wait, and the price will go down (however, this only badly hurts
> all dealers, not necessarily the collectors.). However, you ALSO burn
> ALL your own customers who paid more for this material when you
> originally offered it.
> I buy something from you for $3.50/g and 2 weeks later you drop
> the price to $1.75/g - I feel RIPPED OFF. (perhaps you STILL don't get
> this, despite doing this to all of us who invested heavily in Wagon
> Wheel - which you, then proceeded to GIVE AWAY. Those of us in for
> $3.50 a gram felt really burned and I, for one, told you that strait to
> your face and I KNOW several others who did as well.) ALSO, when
> you do this, there is NO STABILITY in the meteorite market.
> Low prices, I am all for it. My collection has never been "gaining
> weight" so fast. I can make just as much money dealing low priced
> material as high priced material. No problem. It is the instability
> that TOTALLY destabilizes everything
> It really doesn't matter (on a market level) whether meteorites
> are "cheap" or "expensive" - of course, as a collector, I prefer them
> cheap - but as a dealer, I don't care one way or the other. WHAT I DO
> CARE ABOUT IS STABILITY. Without it, neither collectors OR dealers
> can conduct business in a sane manor.
> Your CONSTANT "fire sales" followed by even greater fire sales
> undermine that stability entirely. No one can reckon the "value"
> of material, because the prices are running all over the board. But
> you get your cash in hand NOW and that is all you care about.
> So, Michael, THAT is why I don't "praise some of the cheapest
> prices around." Get it? Or, is it STILL too subtle for you?
> I resent it as a collector and I resent it as a dealer.
> Sincerely, Michael Blood
>
>
> on 10/8/03 12:27 AM, Michael Cottingham at mikewren_at_gilanet.com wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Maybe I just really don't want to sell that piece that bad!!!
> > Hey ...why don't you look at the other pieces and PRAISE some of the
> > CHEAPEST prices around!
> >
> > Really folks ...don't look for ghosts on this one. Either
> > buy the pieces or don't. It is all up front and it is a public sale.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Michael Cottingham
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "M come Meteorite Meteorites" <mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it>
> > To: <Sharkkb8_at_aol.com>; <MeteoriteCollectors@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20% off
> > everything on ...
> >
> >
> >> it resolves with these useless sentences
> >>
> >> Matteo
> >>
> >> --- Michael Cottingham <mikewren_at_gilanet.com> wrote:
> >>> It is something else....
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Sharkkb8_at_aol.com
> >>> To: mikewren_at_gilanet.com ;
> >>> mcomemeteorite2000_at_yahoo.it ;
> >>> meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:05 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re:
> >>> [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20% off everything on
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> mikewren_at_gilanet.com writes:
> >>> Matteo and Michael Blood should go back to
> >>> bed...you nit wits!
> >>> C'mon Michael (C.) - that doesn't really address
> >>> Michael (B.)'s inquiry about your "discount"
> >>> pricing. If it's just a (moderately-insulting)
> >>> marketing ploy to get the same net amount of money
> >>> for a rock, just say so. If it's something else,
> >>> just say so. I'm speaking as a past
> >>> customer....could you please answer the question?
> >>>
> >>> Gregory
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> =====
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