[meteorite-list] The eBay $13,000,000 space rock

From: meteoriteplaya_at_comcast.net <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Oct 4 17:41:04 2006
Message-ID: <100420062140.6548.45242A5C00083CC70000199422070209530E970E049F0A9B079D010A9B0A03_at_comcast.net>

Hi Frederic
The maximum cost to list any item at any price is $4.80. The real money is in selling of the item for Ebay. The fees would be almost $200,000 for Ebay and $377,000 for PayPal. Here is the fee calculator I mentioned on this same subject earlier in the week.

http://home.alltel.net/micrep/fees.html

Just enter 13,000,000 in both the starting and final sales price. Enter 0 for shipping as he is nice enough to not charge for that and you will find the numbers I came up with above.
Mike

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Mike Jensen
Jensen Meteorites
16730 E Ada PL
Aurora, CO 80017-3137
303-337-4361
IMCA 4264
website: www.jensenmeteorites.com
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Fred Caillou Noir" <fred_at_caillou-noir.com>
> I also contacted this seller about  item #300034369553 - METEORITE offered at 
> £7,000,000 starting price, saying that he will never have a single bid and I 
> received the following reply:
> 
> 'Of course when someone's grandaddy bought a large house his friends only jested 
> that it might make a million one day. And of course you'ver NEVER seen a house 
> advertised for £1million or more......... '
> 
> Well,... humour...?
> 
> I do not know what ebay insertion fees have to be paid with such a starting 
> price and do not want to use time counting, but it must be high! What kind of 
> game is this?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Frederic
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Harris" <entropydave_at_ntlworld.com>
> To: "metlist" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:38 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] The eBay $13,000,000 space rock
> 
> 
> > Well, I did email the seller with a respectable tone - offering my
> > experience and so on, and spent some time explaining that the pics couilld
> > be better and so on and that the price was unreasonable and so on...
> > 
> > I obviously wasted far too much time - I got a single word response "Thanks"
> > 
> > 
> > Then I saw the other guff they were selling at equally ludicrous prices so I
> > again, politely and self-effacingly emailed them back apologising for "not
> > realising that you were a major loon" and that I was foolish to try to help!
> > 
> > 
> > Craaaa-zzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ho hum...
> > 
> > 
> > dave
> > 
> > IMCA #0092
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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Received on Wed 04 Oct 2006 05:40:44 PM PDT