[meteorite-list] Reply to my last post about ebay and market
From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:04 2004 Message-ID: <001d01c22168$354624e0$36d00140_at_computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C2212D.87A9EAE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everyone, I left town to head up north on 5 minutes notice = Saturday when the evacuation order for Show Low was lifted. I have been = surveying the destruction up there and just got home to Tucson. Will = talk about that later tonight.=20 About the Ebay/Meteorite market post I made, there were a good many = replies, too many for me to deal with.=20 Just to clarify here, some people seem to have thought that I meant that = I sold only low quality meteorites on ebay. That is not, I REPEAT NOT, = what I meant. I was trying to say that what I tend to put on ebay is = smaller items, things that I don't have time to put on my website. I am = months behind on there as it is, and need the website time for the = larger specimens. I use Ebay exclusively to sell the smaller lower = dollar items, still makes great money, pays the bills etc.=20 I started collecting like almost everyone else by buying small items. I = do not mean to say at all that this is bad, this is where most of my = money comes from.=20 The comment about Low quality that I somehow managed to merge with = my ebay sells sentence was out of place. I meant to say that many = meteorites that are found on ebay are low quality. Look at the Sikhote = Alins, they are dirt cheap on ebay, but they are the low quality = specimens, the nicer ones are expensive, and do not sell on ebay. So = when someone tells me that they got a .10 cent per gram SA on ebay and = want the same price for my website specimens, I just laugh. The market is not ebay, ebay is a very public display of meteorite = sells though. Just because a nice specimen does not fetch a good price = like R. Elliotts Cumberland Falls, this does not mean that the = Cumberland Falls price collapsed, it means Rob took a beating and = someone got very lucky. I wish I had seen it!=20 Ebay dose NOT =3D Meteorite Market prices.=20 Thanks=20 Mike Farmer ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C2212D.87A9EAE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello everyone, I left town to head up = north on 5=20 minutes notice Saturday when the evacuation order for Show Low was = lifted. I=20 have been surveying the destruction up there and just got home to = Tucson. Will=20 talk about that later tonight. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> About the Ebay/Meteorite market = post I made,=20 there were a good many replies, too many for me to deal with. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Just to clarify here, some people seem = to have=20 thought that I meant that I sold only low quality meteorites on ebay. = That is=20 not, I REPEAT NOT, what I meant. I was trying to say that what I tend to = put on=20 ebay is smaller items, things that I don't have time to put on my = website. I am=20 months behind on there as it is, and need the website time for the = larger=20 specimens. I use Ebay exclusively to sell the smaller lower dollar = items, still=20 makes great money, pays the bills etc. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I started collecting like almost = everyone else by=20 buying small items. I do not mean to say at all that this is bad, this = is where=20 most of my money comes from. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> The comment about = Low quality=20 that I somehow managed to merge with my ebay sells sentence was out of = place. I=20 meant to say that many meteorites that are found on ebay are low = quality. Look=20 at the Sikhote Alins, they are dirt cheap on ebay, but they are the low = quality=20 specimens, the nicer ones are expensive, and do not sell on ebay. So = when=20 someone tells me that they got a .10 cent per gram SA on ebay and want = the same=20 price for my website specimens, I just laugh.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> The market is not = ebay, ebay is=20 a very public display of meteorite sells though. Just because a nice = specimen=20 does not fetch a good price like R. Elliotts Cumberland Falls, this does = not=20 mean that the Cumberland Falls price collapsed, it means Rob took a = beating and=20 someone got very lucky. I wish I had seen it! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ebay dose NOT =3D Meteorite Market = prices.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Farmer</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C2212D.87A9EAE0-- Received on Mon 01 Jul 2002 09:31:35 PM PDT |
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