[meteorite-list] a little collector advice........

From: Matt <Matt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:27 2004
Message-ID: <01c501c1ca09$7836ac90$8fbf7fa5_at_D7220234W2K>

Sorry Dean, you will be corrected here...
On average....I see Millbillillie for 15-25/g, sometimes 30/g, two years
ago, I sold it at 10-12/g. Ebay may be another story. It varies quite a bit
on there.
Some Aussies in Tucson, 2002, had it for 12-15/g.

Allende..Blaine Reed had nice ones, collected in 1969, for 6-8/g at Tucson!
Check Farmer's prices. Mine too. We are talking quality here, not
run-of-the-mill crap. You know what I mean?

25/g for Johnstown..that was Rolf Buehler, 1997 - DEAN! Before you were even
a blip on the meteorite screen. I paid over 60/g at Darryls auction and was
a MIGHTY HAPPY CAMPER. It retails between 100-200/g now. Do your homework.

I'll give you the SNCs and Lunar, but I did that in my previous email.

Desert meteorites HAVE NOT brought the "price of all meteorites to a
 reasonable level". I wish I could buy Pultisk for 1.00/g, but that is
impossible and will remain so. They have brought down the price of the SNCs
and Lunars, but the old, witnessed achondrites are more expensive than ever.

"You know that the price of non desert meteorites has not risen in the past
18 months. They have fallen bigtime like the desert meteorites have."

This is a big, swooping, generalization, like the rest of your statements.
A reply would take up a whole email in itself. The price on witnessed
falls, especially old ones, has gone up. I wish I could buy back Richardton
at 5/g, Forest City at 12/g, Homestead at 5/g. I cannot, plain and simple.

Nuff said. It was fun. Gotta love meteorites!! Get the blood flowin. Bye.
Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "dean bessey" <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com>
To: <mmorgan_at_mhmeteorites.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] a little collector advice........


> >Not true. In fact, a good proportion of non-hot desert witnessed >falls
> >have increased in price. Some tremendously! Pultsuk, Mocs, >Johnstown,
New
> >Concord, Monroe, Homestead...shall I keep >going....Allende,
Millbillillie,
> >even Juancheng! There are others >that have gone down, mainly the SNCs
and
> >Lunars. Directly linked to >the "desert gold rush".
> Lets see. Millbillillie was $20 a gram teo years ago but was $7 a gram in
> tucson
> One dealer was offering allende for $3 a gram in tucson and it was $6 a
year
> ago.
> Johnstown was $200 a while ago and is now under $100. Somebody even posted
> to this list (Or was it the IMCA list) saying that he say Johnstown listed
> at $25.
> Zagami was $2000 a gram 3 years ago and recently in the $300 to $500
range.
> Thought sounds like the prices of your non desert meteorites have been
> rising lately.
> If no other desert shergotite or lunar was ever found then zagami would
> still be $2000 a gram now and the only lunar (Cacalong creek) would still
be
> a million dollars a gram.
> The desert meteorites have brought down the price of all meteorites to a
> reasonable level.
> It couldent be further from the truth to say that desert meteorite prices
> have fallen and others have risen.
> Collectors often couldent care less where there a type sample is from. All
> CO3s are cheap because of the Libyan find. When a CO3 can be bought for
$20
> a gram fewer people is going to pay $100 for another one. If they just
want
> a CO3 sample they will buy the libyan CO3. Because of the Libyan find
other
> CO3s are selling less than they would otherwise.
> Do you honestly think that you would still be able to get zagami for $500
a
> gram if no desert SNC was ever found? Of course you dont. You know that
the
> price of non desert meteorites has not risen in the past 18 months. They
> have fallen bigtime like the desert meteorites have.
> DEAN
>
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Received on Tue 12 Mar 2002 04:04:15 PM PST