[meteorite-list] Cali prices

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:48:55 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <878099.2441.qm_at_web33112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

 Think about it, TWO trips to Colombia, hotels, all
day taxi rentals, last second tickets, etc etc etc,
and all to bring home 1/2 POUND of meteorites,
CHONDRITE,
at that, not even 220 GRAMS between the TWO of us?
 My
 trip costs for both trips was well over $8000.00,
 anyone who jumps on airplanes with ~2 hours notice
 and
 flies to South American countries can tell you all
 about that, and if we had found nothing as so often
 happends? How many of you would have donated money
 to pay for our failed trips? Ahhhhh, nobody would
have sent me a penny. So if you can think rationally,
 about flying thousands of miles, and coming home with
 rocks that in mass have much less size than a damn
candybar, what is it worth?
 It is worth whatever the market will bear, and it
 darned well bore a very high price, which is why I
 am sold out in less than 24 hours at many many times
 the price of gold. Those of you complaining about the
 price, DONT BUY! Problem solved, no worries, keep
 your money. Those who wanted a piece of history, the
 first fall for Colombia, 4 house smashers etc, you
have pieces than only a very few collectors ever will.

 Matteo cried during Park Forest (and every other
 meteorite fall for the last 10 years) so this is
 nothing new. He also said Park Forest was worth no
 more than $6.00 gram (I posted this once before,
easy to find in the archives) and now he sells it for
 $50.00 gram. So who is speculating here?
 
 So once again, a gentle reminder about the price of
 this fall, I NEVER sold a piece for $4000 gram, it
 is being re-sold by the buyers for that price, and
you
 know what, more power to them, they control it all
 right now, if you want a piece, they are the source,
 I can not provide another piece for any price.
 Michael Farmer
>
>
> --- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:27:15 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >I dont think he was criticizing Mike, Darren.
> >
> > Oh, I didn't think he was criticizing. I just
> think
> > the obvious answer to "why
> > charge so much" is because he has to, if he wants
> to
> > break even. As for if
> > there'll be many takers at that price, time will
> > tell. But I'm betting that
> > there will be a few. Some people are really fond
> of
> > hammers. (And they do have
> > cool stories to go with them-- but not worth 10x
> or
> > 100x the price for the sake
> > of having that story, IMHO).
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