AW: [meteorite-list] Ad ebay meteorites

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Nov 4 15:54:34 2004
Message-ID: <011301c4c2b0$98d44fa0$b8e850d9_at_9y6y40j>

2) not the fall, but an artificial high price in some cases (tkws, equipping
same material with different numbers).

3) A price guide, as I suggested a beginning collector should compile, based
on the web offerings, actualized each year, could be very helpful. I see no
other chance for manipulating than that some dealers would feel forced to
level their prices more to the average and my experience tells me, that
there are more fantastic high prices than offerors which have drastically
low prices.
Thus no concern, or?

Cheers!
Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Gessler" <gessler_at_ucla.edu>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Ad ebay meteorites


> Three things to think about:
>
> 1) Until the labs start increasing their throughput, it will be necessary
> to make informed guesses.
> "A rose, by any other name, is still a rose."
>
> 2) Did naming irregularities cause the fall in meteorite prices? How
about
> the over-supply of meteorites and a bad economy?
>
> 3) A Scott's Postage Stamp Catalog of meteorite prices? (I hope
> not! Meteorites don't fall into such nice discrete categories.
> No one pays Scott prices. Scott's catalog has a history of being used to
> manipulate the market.)
>
> No time to discuss these now, but so often meteorite worries seem like a
> tempest in a teapot!
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
>
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