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

From: Raremeteorites <raremeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:56:05 -0800
Message-ID: <EA6F85F5C69840FF9BC646E9D4DA5708_at_HPDESKTOP>

Speaking of planetary, it is ridiculous to think that some dealers are
asking more for a Howardite than a Martian fall like Zagami. Zagami has
less available weight and a better story and still will not fetch the higher
prices it once did. It is not the collectors fault that dealers pay too
much in the field thinking that collectors have deep pockets and can make up
the price.

In other markets, a dealer makes his money by buying well in the first
place,

Adam





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Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Over Eastern Turkish Village:
Poor Villagers Make Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After Black Stones From
Space Rain Down


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