[meteorite-list] Meteorites that can't get any, Casper the frendly theif, and a deeply stupid article

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:32:18 +0200
Message-ID: <009201c9349e$6ce3df00$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

Other thoughts?

Not necessary.

The writer hadn't a story, so he wrote a fashionable one, as all are talking
of bursting bubbles these days.

Don't know, whether one should trust in a Casper as a good analyst...:-)
(Isn't that the fellow, who aimed to sell kilo-pieces of Allende at 15$ and
NWA-H5s at 1000$/kg recently on ebay?)

By the way "a million grams" is a metric ton.

Was quite somewhat more during the recent years,
but since three, four years the prices are growing again, in the desert
sector (and in the classic too).
Seems that the scale pan bows slowly again to the demand side.

I'm sure, that several of the historic fall&find collectors would be happy
to be allowed to pay the prices of the late 1990s again, right, Michael B.?

(Hmmmm, whether Michael C. will sell me Zagami at 200$ now? With the money
he could pay his debts at Michael F.).

Which Michaels will be in Munich?
Martin



-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Michael
L Blood
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2008 21:14
An: cynapse at charter.net; Meteorite List
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites that can't get any, Casper the
frendly theif, and a deeply stupid article

Interesting...
        Anyone know who is David Serchuk? Is he
Just some writer who peeked into the meteorite
Market long enough to gather a few facts and
Then jump to conclusions?
        While I agree with many of his statements,
His "never to return again" hypothesis regarding
The height of meteorite prices in the late '90s is
not just questionable, but almost certainly wrong.
For one, the number of high roller fossil
collectors and comic book fanatics may increase
Only slowly over time, but meteorite collecting is
An arena that could explode to many times its
Current level in a relatively short period of time -
And the group of collectors today is so extraordinarily
Small that it could grow to sever hundreds of times
Its size in a sprint of only a few years ...... and then
continue to grow.
        So, his conclusion of prices having peeked to
A level never to be seen again is nothing short of
absurd.
        Other thoughts?
        Michael

on 10/22/08 9:37 AM, Darren Garrison at cynapse at charter.net wrote:




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