[meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:45:52 -0800
Message-ID: <4CF45750.6080009_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Listing/Insertion fees aren't actually that much at all...
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

Max is about $2 for auction style listing and a .50 fee for buy it now.

It's the "Final Value Fee" which eats into the listing price IF the item
sells:
9.0% of sale price (maximum charge $50.00)

Real Estate and other unique categories charge upwards of ~$20 per
listing...

Regards,
Eric





On 11/29/2010 5:39 PM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm not saying this to bash eBay. But eBay is not interested (or
> capable) of determining what a legit meteorite is. If meteorites
> become problematic for eBay, they might ban their listings entirely.
> Or they might get overzealous and start hazing meteorite sellers the
> way they do with sellers of pearls. (Just ask Dean Bessey about that
> one)
>
> The best thing a meteorite buyer can do (in regards to eBay) is to
> educate themselves on space rocks. There is a lot of good information
> available on the web for the interested newbie, if they spend some
> time looking.
>
> Some of these bogus listings we see don't make sense to me. It must
> cost a good bit of cash to list a $20,000 item, less yet a $200,000
> item. The listing fee alone is nothing to scoff at. It's costing
> some of these people a ton of cash to list these specimens and eBay is
> cashing in whether the rock sells or not.
>
> Take the Martian Blood Vessel guy for example - he keeps listing the
> same high-dollar items over and over, and nobody is buying them. So
> he must be in pretty deep already on listing fees alone. I bet that
> guy has spent a couple of grand on listing fees alone. He needs to
> sell one of those specimens just to recoup his listing fees.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
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> On 11/29/10, Stuart McDaniel<actionshooting at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Ought to report him to ebay.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Adam Hupe
>> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 4:56 PM
>> To: Adam
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus
>>
>> Yep, another one!
>>
>> I wonder how Steve C.'s press conference went at the Montrose Library?
>> Apparently the media attention he received became addictive. I see he made
>> himself president of UNCO meteorites to give himself an air of importance
>> and
>> authority. He says it has nothing to do with money but is asking millions
>> of
>> dollars for his self-proclaimed planetary pieces. Now he has taken it to the
>> next step by claiming to have found alien lifeforms.
>>
>> The common denominators seem to be the need for fame and money, mostly fame.
>> This guy should think about going into the entertainment industry with such
>> story telling abilities. It seems like a waste of his talent to simply
>> write
>> eBay descriptions and hold press conferences at libraries. The sad thing is
>> that
>> in his mind, he surely is the world's best meteorite hunter and should be
>> recognized as such.
>>
>>
>> Happy Hunting,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: JoshuaTreeMuseum<joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 12:26:40 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus
>>
>> Here's a new one:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/North-American-Biologic-Planetary-Meteorite-/120652410277?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1771ada5
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------
>> To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
>> research.
>> (SW)
>>
>>
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
>>
>>
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