[meteorite-list] Question for dealers re: displaying sold items

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <362594.50970.qm_at_web113615.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

These damn whippersnappers! In my day we used to walk 5 miles to school in the driving snow, in June. And it was uphill against the wind in both directions!

Sorry to be a little tongue in cheek there, but that's what it sounds like. Yes. I've purchase meteorites, this year in fact, sight unseen. The dealer and their reputation is a testament to this. I also send email inquiring if items I am interested in are available. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.

It makes little sense to me to fill an inventory page with material you no longer have for sale. It takes just as much time, money and effort to remove an item as it does to mark it sold and in an age when you can get a dedicated website with unlimited bandwidth for <$5 a month, and you can update your site instantly with your cell phone, I guess I have a hard time understanding why you wouldn't do that.

Of course you can always not list any inventory on your site and just tell people to contact you for a copy of your snail mail price list...

Cheers

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 4/12/11, Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote:
> From: Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Question for dealers re: displaying sold items
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6:43 PM
> Uncle Alexander, where art thou?
> 
> You have to tell the old stories to the Youth,
> who doesn't want to bear the incredible hardship, to type
> for a minute an
> electric message into their newfangled apparatuses and to
> wait another
> minute for an answer, in acquiring a desired meteorite
> specimen.
> 
> Tell them from the days, where the collectors sat down,
> painting with the
> stylus a letter on real paper, putting it in an envelope,
> taking a walk to
> the post office,
> and where the happy ending, after that kind of conversation
> forth and back,
> eventuated after months with the find of the specimen in
> the letter box.
> 
> Tell them, how people spent only for making enquiries after
> a specimen and
> to come to terms for oversea-calls more than today a 3
> pound Campo does
> cost.
> 
> Tell them the anecdotes, that collectors sometimes paid the
> flight for the
> finder, for him to come to show a stone to them.
> 
> Tell them, how the collectors travelled a thousand miles to
> the show, to
> visit two handful of rotten ordinary chondrites.
> 
> Meeeeeteorites!? Pieces of other worlds, of The Moon
> and Planet Mars!!
> 
> Uncle Alex, see them bluster with SUCH a material, as if
> they would have to
> wait a minute too long at the counter for receiving their
> burgers!
> 
> O tempora, o mores!
> 
> The World as Will and Ebay;
> Or Meteorites are Socks.
> 
> ;-)
> Martin
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
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Received on Tue 12 Apr 2011 11:51:45 PM PDT