[meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 5 16:38:02 2005
Message-ID: <amo6a11lgfbkj1mlfhnkodvlleksubeo46_at_4ax.com>

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 12:14:35 -0700, Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_cox.net> wrote:

>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?

And if friends or family ask me to fix a computer problem of theirs, I do it for free and refuse any
offers of money, as some things are more important than lining your wallet.

> 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).

Yes, and what good the Unions did in the first half of the 20th century is overshadowed by the
corrupt, greedy, scumbag organizations that unions grew into in the second half of the 20th century.
Unions don't care who they hurt as long as they "get theirs". I have contempt for Unions and would
never be part of one.

> 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

I can't speak for everyone, but I just have some sort of visceral distaste for taking a hobby that
interests you and trying to get rich off of it. It just seems to cheapen the hobby, to me, and a
more true support of the hobby would to be to sell items/services/whatever at the barest minimum you
can afford above cost. But that's just me-- I'm not saying that YOU shouldn't be a dealer hoping to
get rich, just that I never would want to be.
Received on Sun 05 Jun 2005 04:45:31 PM PDT