[meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:24:40 -0500
Message-ID: <cc43u39gau1jhcs1rggril26ehgdiu8fjr_at_4ax.com>

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:13:42 +0100, you wrote:

>Collecting is investing. Every collector wants to see the value of his
>collection stay sable at the least.

Not me. I collect them because I want them, not because I hope to turn a profit
for them in the future. I'd be very happy if every class of asteroid material
became cheap and abundant enough that you would casually buy them by the ton and
have them delivered by dump truck. If that means that the money I've already
spent on meteorites would never be recovered, so what? I'm never going to
recover the multiple thousands I've dumped into computer equipment over the
years that is now so obsolete I'd have to pay a landfill to take them. I want
the meteorite market to crash, hard, so that I can pick up the bargains.
Received on Wed 19 Mar 2008 06:24:40 PM PDT