[meteorite-list] World's Meteorite Shows

From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue May 16 15:54:05 2006
Message-ID: <018b01c67922$694de780$6401a8c0_at_c1720188a>

Dear David,

You do not know what you are talking about. That was when there was only 58
milligrams of crumbs on the market with no known pairings. Serge was asking
$500.00 for the crumbs and Al was ready to walk away. After convincing Al
about there desirability was he willing to partner with us on the crumbs.
Al ended up with a good portion of the crumbs. The price was established by
collectors at auction, not by me. If you recall the first piece was entered
by Al in partnership at a Blood auction with no minimum bid.

By the way, It has been cleared with both Dr. Irving and Dr. Bunch for you
to contact them in regards to previous statements you made that are in
error.

Kind Regards,

Adam




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Weir" <dgweir_at_earthlink.net>
To: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites_at_comcast.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] World's Meteorite Shows


> Adam Hupe wrote:
> They have been asking outrageous
> > prices for everything including $95,000.00 for a supposed pairing to NWA
> > 011/2400 and $300,000.00 for an untested Martian rock.
>
> Dear Adam,
>
> You don't suppose this price for a NWA 011 pairing might have anything
> to do with you, do you? After all, it was you who interfered in a deal
> between myself, Al Lang, and Serge Afanisiev that I had researched for
> two years prior to Tucson 2003 and arranged for Al to make a deal for
> the filings that Serge said he had available. This was all long before
> you took up your short-lived "partnership" with Al. I'm sure you have a
> different take on things, but I will always feel that you turned around
> and bought the NWA 011 filings out from under Al, not letting him
> complete the deal in his intelligent way with his longtime friend.
>
> Then you sold the material at auction, and thereafter, for several
> hundred dollars per MILLIGRAM. Gee, thanks for making sure the price of
> this material stays reasonable for us collectors. In my opinion you have
> no right to complain about the high pricing of this material, and you
> should be proud of yourself that the paired find NWA 2400 was also being
> offered at $3000/g by Terry Boswell and his "partner in crime" Ron
> Farrell. Perhaps this new pairing will also be consistent with the high
> prices that YOU initiated. Thanks again. You should have stayed out of
> this deal of mine and Al Lang's and most likely we wouldn't be seeing
> these exorbitant prices for this unique basaltic eucrite-like meteorite.
> Hey, and thanks for the free milligram of NWA 011 you gave me rather
> than, say, 4 milligrams... after all, it was MY initiation (with due
> credit to Norbert Classen who helped in the search for this material).
>
> Okay, I'm over it. Have a great day Adam.
>
> Love,
> David
Received on Tue 16 May 2006 03:53:31 PM PDT