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Re: Meteorite "worth" (warning: long and opinionated!)



><<Meteorites ....will then be a rich man's hobby-->>

>You say you've been collecting/dealing for 20 years.  (I confess, I'm only
at
>about 15)
>So at the beginning of your involvement, you could no doubt buy lots of
stuff
>for way-
>less-than-a-dollar-a-gram, right?   How about the guy who was around 30
years
>before YOU?  HE'S thinking, "Man, this stuff's only worth a dollar-a-POUND,
>and here comes this guy Steve who's paying way more than I EVER did".
>Should he have looked at you and said, "YOU are turning this into a rich
>man's hobby"?

Yes indeed. Inflation is turning this into a rich man's hobby. I suppose
that some of the people on this list have something to gain from that, but I
am in the hobby because I am fascinated by meteorites. If I wanted to
increase my worth, I would be into stocks and bonds. Perhaps I would
stockpile a little gold for the next war or instability. But to assign a
high commercial value, so that they can no longer be obtained is, to me, a
sort of sacrilege.

That, and government land restriction, is my primary motive for being
interested in a meteorite collectors organization. Anybody second the
nomination for Steve Schoner chairman?


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