AW: AW: AW: [meteorite-list] insomnia can cause clouding of consciousness

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue May 9 16:24:03 2006
Message-ID: <01af01c673a6$7735fcb0$4f41fea9_at_name86d88d87e2>

Staaaaaaaaaaaaaan !!!!!

The prices of today are uncomparable cheap to any prices in the 200 years
lasting history of meteorites.

And, they will be gone soon and they never will come back!!!

In 5 years you will rant here on the list about the greedy dealers having
driven the prices high to nirvana,
while most others simply will cry about the paradise lost.

If Sahara is over and Oman closed, please Stan, tell me where should similar
amounts of meteorites come from?

There is only one possibility to get a situation like today in future:
If the Antarctic finds would be released to commercialism.

We are all so spoiled or to young (i.e. came to meteorites during the recent
5 years in times of the desert rush) to see the obvious.
I'm sure, that most who have read my lines will think, that guy is a dealer,
that panicking is for sure a gimmick to animate people to buy,
as Blood is doing, if he's telling the same, as the Hupes and Farmer are
doing, when they are telling Morocco is drying out.

Well, we can't force you to be happy,
We warned, we adviced.. everything else is up to you.

See the prices in 3 years...
Byeeee!!!
Your Ollie

PS: I missed in the 80ies the ordinary chondrites sold at 50$/kg I guess...
Btw. Chondrites are said to be the most common type, or else: most
meteorites are chondrites....


-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: stan . [mailto:laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Mai 2006 22:08
An: Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com; altmann@meteorite-martin.de
Betreff: RE: AW: AW: [meteorite-list] insomnia can cause clouding of
consciousness


>Contra, Stan!
>you are speaking from that era, when almost nobody was collecting
>meteorites
>and there were worldwide 5 dealers, hence no market, the golden age of the
>70ies and partially 80ies, when there was so few interest in meteorites,
>that there wasn't a market at all and the prices even lower than in the
>1880ies.
>You are right, when you're telling, that in the 90ies the prices grew
>enormously - main factor, I think, was the upcoming internet and with it,
>the increasing number of collectors. Before almost every collector and
>every
>dealer, they all knew eachother in person (but not Martin, the kid).
>But the development of internet is irreversible, so those times are gone.


I'm only 30 - I'm talking about the very tail end of the '80's and the
begining of the '90's - only a few years before the nwa boom. there were
still plenty of people collecting meteorites back then. Ask Bob Haag.

if we are looking at historical price trends it's unfair to simply look at
todays prices vs that of the prices seen in the peak of the speculative
frenzy for meteorites. Those prices were unsustianable - even with todays
increased collector base.
Received on Tue 09 May 2006 04:23:41 PM PDT