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

From: McomeMeteorite Meteorite <meteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Sep 30 16:16:11 2004
Message-ID: <BAY2-F42dRGy9tCx1Dy0002584c_at_hotmail.com>

I have just look my price list of the pieces I have buy in this years and
change in this months with biggest pieces....the prices is change in some
case for the 100% first lunars and mars meteorites
Some prices from my list....

Allende CV3 gr.85.73 buy 16/05/2000 $395 $4.6/gr. now a Allende price
is $2/gr.
Brahin Pallasite gr.53.2 buy 16/11/1999 $266 $5/gr. now a Brahin is sold
for under $1.5/gr.
Bilanga Diogenite gr.4 buy 12/04/2000 $140 $35/gr. now how much is?
DaG 476 SNC gr.3.75 buy 05/06/2004 $1125 $300/gr. first time $2000/gr.
DaG 400 Lunar gr.1.03 buy 19/05/2004 $1240 $1203/gr. first time $35000 -
15000/gr.
Zagami SNC gr.3.1 buy 01/08/2003 $1050 $338/gr. first time
$2000-1000/gr.

For no speack of the ruined prices of the lunars put on ebay, some sale for
$400/gr. or max $900/gr. now I want see who sale a slice of lunar material
for $2000-5000/gr. old request after the prices of ebay....

Matteo



>From: "Martin Altmann" <Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de>
>Reply-To: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de>
>To: "MARK BOSTICK"
><thebigcollector_at_msn.com>,<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] General Meteorite Interest Has Increased
>100%InLast Year
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:01:08 +0200
>
>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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