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

From: Fred Caillou Noir <fred_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Oct 5 02:56:45 2006
Message-ID: <001d01c6e84b$574356e0$0100a8c0_at_IBM>

Hi Mike & List,
Thanks Mike. Then I understand better that his cost won't be much but still I wonder wheter this "seller" can expect selling such a doubtful item at such a price! What can he try to get from such an auction on ebay?....
Well it's a mystery to me.
Cheers
Fred
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To: "Fred Caillou Noir" <fred_at_caillou-noir.com>; "Dave Harris" <entropydave@ntlworld.com>; "metlist" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The eBay $13,000,000 space rock


> 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
> --
> 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
> > > Sec.BIMS
> > > www.bimsociety.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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