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

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:23 2004
Message-ID: <006201c38de3$942437c0$deca9f44_at_wbranch>

Hello Everyone,

I have added a new entry on my page devoted to buying meteorites and
questionable seller activities. I call it the "disappearing discount"
http://www.branchmeteorites.com/metbuying.html

Those list members new to buying meteorites may want to take a look at the
page.

-Walter

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www.branchmeteorites.com
Walter Branch, Ph.D.
Branch Meteorites
PO Box 60492
Savannah, GA 31420



----- 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 1:12 PM
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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> >> MSN Messanger: spacerocks_at_hotmail.com
> >> EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite/
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