[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Over Eastern Turkish Village: Poor Villagers Make Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After Black Stones From Space Rain Down

From: Bigjohn Shea <bigjohnshea_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 02:42:52 +0100
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"I moved away from collecting new falls when I paid over $600.00 a gram for Claxton and could only realize less than $140.00 a gram a few years later when broken down into smaller pieces."

This is precisely one of the points I was making earlier. There's no telling how much people will want to pay once the next fall comes around, or the next "rare" hot planetary is found, etc. etc.

John




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On 11/15/15 at 8:39 PM, Raremeteorites via Meteorite-list wrote:

> I moved away from collecting new falls when I paid over $600.00 a gram for
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> Claxton and could only realize less than $140.00 a gram a few years later
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> when broken down into smaller pieces. Peekskill can be had for a fraction
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> of the price it once sold for. The asking is price is way too high on this
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> new Howardite when the famous Kopoeta Howardite with much more history and
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> much less total weight only fetches around $100.00 a gram at auction.
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> Then there are a few other issues like greedy con artists substituting fresh
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> NWA material for witnessed falls or a serious decline in collectors
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> disposable income since 2008 that puts downward price pressure on all
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> collectables.
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> A collectable of any sort has to be extremely desirable and very different
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> to survive as an investment in this very slowly recovering economy.
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> Adam
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Received on Sun 15 Nov 2015 08:42:52 PM PST