[meteorite-list] Ads,

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:04 -0700
Message-ID: <4AD65FEC.7030501_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Howdy Dave,

Good to see you posting on list. As far as the ads go, some people just
don't like seeing them in their email box. Apparently they forget where
their delete key is. Yeah that's a dig at all you ad haters out there.
How do you spell that thing when you stick your tongue out and expel
air...?

PPPPLLLLLLLLGGGGGGHHHHHH!

Anyway, if Cottingham can talk to his alter ago via email I can stick my
tongue out to all the ad-haters. There's a lot worse things about this
business than a few meteorites for sale ads posted on a meteorite email
list.

I'm all for ads of course because I sell them myself, but it's more
about getting newbies to the business and increasing awareness. Like
Steve Arnold of Meteorite Men said a while back. I'm paraphrasing of
course. Screw splitting the meteorite pie into smaller pieces, just make
the pie bigger. You do that by getting more people involved. More people
getting interested about meteorites through collecting will spread the
word and make meteorites more mainstream.

So with all that, I'd like to simply say, to heck with it, and if
someone wants to post ads about meteorites let them post all they want.
This breeds more collectors, and more collectors eventually mean
meteorite will become mainstream, and that means the people getting
involved now may themselves become scientists and perhaps even inspire
their children to do so as well.

Of course then you have the dorks who just want to whine about emails
they don't want to read. Well, for them I have a suggestion. Don't read
it...

For everyone else, glad to have you as a customer. If I can help I will,
or perhaps Cottingham can provide all you newbie collectors with some
meteorites. http://stores.shop.ebay.com/VOYAGE-BOTANICA-NATURAL-HISTORY
He's got a great selection!

Enjoy...

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA








Dave Myers wrote:
> I joined this list in May, and just started collecting meteorites at that time,
>
> I have bought all my meteorites from Eric Wickman, and on the list, I have gotten great free samples from Steve Arnold, Chicago!
>
> I do not know any of them or any of you, But If I may say, people posting
> ads on here of meteorites for sale, (with there pictures and class) has given me more info, than 38% of the other post!.... I KNOW I AM A NEWBE, AND AS OF NOW THIS IS MY RESOURCE OF LEARNING, WHAT-IS WHAT.....I need to see lots of Pictures and what the classifacation is for that picture!
>
> So just not sure what the big deal is, with so little people posting Ads
> compared to all the other post on here!
>
> Dave Myers
> Cincinnati
>
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Received on Wed 14 Oct 2009 07:34:04 PM PDT