[meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:34:48 -0400
Message-ID: <E8E3AAF59C1F44B58FE7463317B9C146_at_Notebook>

Ditto, ditto and ditto.
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite market trends - a critical note


> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:13:42 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Collecting is investing. Every collector wants to see the value of his
>>collection stay sable at the least.
>
> Not me. I collect them because I want them, not because I hope to turn a
> profit
> for them in the future. I'd be very happy if every class of asteroid
> material
> became cheap and abundant enough that you would casually buy them by the
> ton and
> have them delivered by dump truck. If that means that the money I've
> already
> spent on meteorites would never be recovered, so what? I'm never going to
> recover the multiple thousands I've dumped into computer equipment over
> the
> years that is now so obsolete I'd have to pay a landfill to take them. I
> want
> the meteorite market to crash, hard, so that I can pick up the bargains.
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