[meteorite-list] General Meteorite Interest Has Increased 100% InLast Year

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 30 12:13:16 2004
Message-ID: <006f01c4a706$b35ee6c0$43e6e13e_at_9y6y40j>

Servus Mark,

50% more collectors, 50% more sales, but 90% lower prices - that's what we
find in Pandora's box.
I would guess that meanwhile the greater part of meteorite friends came over
ebay and internet to collecting within in the last 3 years.
They just aren't aware, that they hit the culmination of the desert rush, a
singular, extraordinnary event (as long as the antarctics will not released)
in history of meteorites, which is without example since the beginnings of
meteoritics and which wont repeat in future (so that once we will tell our
grandsuns and -daughters from the prices of today and we will bite off the
parts where we we are sitting on, that we didn't load our cellars and
garages full of the extraterrestial stuff).

Those collectors just don't know, that even 5 years ago it was not possible
to buy a howardite for 10$/gm or a Moon at 300$/gm and that not long ago
there were perhaps only 200 or 300 different meteorites available and not
more.

That's, I think, what Captain Blood an we other veterans mean, when we
snivel about the "Crash".

Lalala
Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector_at_msn.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:40 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] General Meteorite Interest Has Increased 100%
InLast Year


> Hello List,
>
> "The Meteorite Market is Crashing!", "The Meteorite Market Has Crashed the
> Last Two Years!", "Things Are Not Selling", "The Market is Ruin".....it
> seems a common theme or underlined theme in the meteorite community. I
have
> never seen this to be true. In fact, it appears to me that sales and
> interest has done nothing but increase.....and at a really amazing pace.
>
> As we continue to increase the inflow of meteorites, it makes it harder
and
> harder to get a large piece of everything, but I do not think that means
> things are not selling or the market has crashed. And to show this I
present
> some of my website stats. Which show a general interest in meteorites is
up
> almost 50%. While this does not mean sales are up 50%, the two factors
are
> very closely related.
>
> The following is a list of different visitors, per a month, to my website,
> www.meteoritearticles.com. This is not page hits or visits a month, which
> are both larger numbers. Such information is usually kept private but I
> think some of you will find it of interest.
>
> Date - Different Visitors
>
> Sept 2004 - 4,484 (not over yet....but almost)
> Aug, 2004 - 4,239
> Jul. 2004 - 3,244
> May 2004 - 2,754
> Apr 2004 - 3,069
> Mar 2004 - 3,605
> Feb 2004 - 3,352
> Jan 2004 - 2,942
> Dec 2003 - 2,480
> Nov 2003 - 2,449
> Oct 2003 - 2,393
>
>
> Clear Skies,
> Mark Bostick
> www.meteoritearticles.com
>
>
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