[meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman
From: Dave Freeman mjwy <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 5 16:32:09 2005 Message-ID: <42A36148.4030206_at_fascination.com> Dear Michael; In my opinion, this is your best post this year Michael! You have captured the essance of those ignorant cheap yardsale mentality inbreds that should take up comic books or marbles as a hobby! Very well done!!!! A very refreshing read! Dave F. Michael L Blood wrote: >Hi Darren, > First, please take note: this response is not directed at you, >personally, rather the frame of mind you so eloquently expressed >and which is so common in the meteorite community. > I am continually amazed at the lack of awareness of commercial >justification of pricing. If collectors in the meteorite community were >subjected to the kind of thinking expressed below in their own professions, >they would be totally outraged. > Completely ignored (in this specific case) include (but are in no >way limited to the following: >- Extensive (lifetime, really) experience on the part of the producer >that allowed him to make a video of any significance in the first place >- The cost of the trip, overall, in immediate out of pocket expenses that >allowed him to make the video >- The relative unlikelihood of the vast majority of potential buyers of >ever going on a journey like this themselves. >- The expense of going on a journey like this one's self >- The educational value to those who might actually go on such a trip >in the future. >- Countless other factors. > Why should bypass surgery cost so much if a "smooth" operation >can be performed in just a few hours? Why should one have to pay a >welder $25 for a single weld he can do in 6 minutes? Why should one >have to pay $125 for a golf pro to spend just one hour helping one >knock a few strokes off one's game? Why should we pay $6 at a matinee >or $10 at night to see Star Wars when we can own a knock off for a few >bucks? Why, why, why? I pay a friend $40/ hr who has the know how to fix >anything on my computer - with a one hr minimum. If he fixes it in 6 >minutes, $40. Why? > I have continually been amazed at the shoddy way many collectors >relate to professional meteorite dealers. > If all the engineers, professors, welders, computer tecs, Dr.s, >lawyers, etc. who collect meteorites had that happen to them in their >professions, they would yell bloody murder and, likely, several murders >would occur (note the deaths involved in the formation of unions in the >first half of the 20th century). > I, being a dealer, immediately sent my $12.50 to Steve, knowing I >would be getting something far more valuable than my stinking $12.50. >I know, because I am aware of the countless "hidden costs" in everything >to do with this business. > It boggles my mind people still think this way about meteorite >dealers. This resentment can be heard over and over again in hundreds >and thousands of posts to this list, in aside comments at shows, etc. >Darren, this way of thinking is in no way unique to you - it is a major >common head set - perhaps held by the majority of collectors - and if >not, certainly a huge minority of them. So, again, please don't feel I am >directing these comments to you - it is to everyone who holds onto >this strange notion that meteorite dealers are some sort of scam artists. >(There are a few - but VERY FEW, and to the best of my knowledge, they >are all very well known). > So, all the hundreds of collectors that I have heard voice disdain >for people making a profit in this business. Have you noted how many >dealers are actually wealthy? And those few that are, have you noticed all >they went through to get where they are today? > It is to all of you I ask the question, what would happen if people >thought that way about YOUR profession? What if you were resented >by 30 to 60% of the people you deal with just for making a profit at what >you do? Not an outrageous profit, mind you, just a survival/try to get >ahead a little profit? > No answer required - really. Just food for thought. > > > >on 6/4/05 10:07 PM, Darren Garrison at cynapse_at_charter.net wrote: > > > >>On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:28:33 -0400, MeteorHntr_at_aol.com wrote: >> >> >> >>>For all of you who ordered the DVD, please give me some feed back on what you >>>think? >>> >>> >>I didn't order the disc myself because I found the price too HIGH. Granted, I >>assumed that it would >>be simply a burned DVD-R and that you wouldn't be going through all the >>trouble of buying cases, >>labels, inserts, etc. Good brand-name DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs should cost you under >>50 cents each and >>"slim line" jewel cases should run you around 35 cents or less each. So each >>disc plus case would >>cost you under $1.00 total (shipping excluded, of course). I doubt anyone on >>the list was expecting >>a fancy box set for it, after all. (Fancy box sets to lust after here: >>http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=392401) >>______________________________________________ >>Meteorite-list mailing list >>Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> > > >-- >"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are." > -Herb Cohen >-- >If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > Received on Sun 05 Jun 2005 04:32:08 PM PDT |
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