[meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin shrapnel prices?

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Feb 20 06:52:53 2005
Message-ID: <000401c51743$43b043c0$0a639a54_at_9y6y40j>

Hola Darrison,

now off-list.
Certainly 50$ shiptment for 1kg from Europe to USA is way from discussion a
huuuuge rip-off,
but if the BIN was 0.24$, one can't say anything against - one could think,
that it would be a special gimmick of the seller, to earn his bucks with the
shipment costs, making the lot more appealing with silly low BIN, but in
this case I'm sure he simply made a mistake.
A normal ebay price for such kgs-lots of shrapnels would be +/-0.15$/g,
thus in your case 150-170$ for the lot,
regmaglypted Sikhotes +/- 0.25$/g.

Thus you paid 0.043/g - less than for a stinky weathered Nantan or Campo,
hence you should sing: Kittakittaooloo and
listen
to my
Buckleboo!

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 5:03 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Sikhote-Alin shrapnel prices?


I'm wondering what a would be concidered a good price on small pieces of
Sikhote-Alin shrapnel. A
seller had a 1160 gram lot of 74 pieces listed with a BIN of 24 cents and a
shipping price of $50.
I think maybe the 24 cent BIN was a mistake, but it looks like he was
gouging quite a bit on the
shipping (even with it coming from Finland) and I wanted to do the BIN
before someone else did (as
surely someone would). So is $50.24 a good price for this lot, or should I
tell the seller that
he's "off the hook" (assuming that it was an accident). Or would the
ethical thing to do to be to
let him "off the hook" good deal or not?

Here's the lot:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6513253911
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