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Hello everyone, I left town to head up north on 5
minutes notice Saturday when the evacuation order for Show Low was lifted. I
have been surveying the destruction up there and just got home to Tucson. Will
talk about that later tonight.
About the Ebay/Meteorite market post I made,
there were a good many replies, too many for me to deal with.
Just to clarify here, some people seem to have
thought that I meant that I sold only low quality meteorites on ebay. That is
not, I REPEAT NOT, what I meant. I was trying to say that what I tend to put on
ebay is smaller items, things that I don't have time to put on my website. I am
months behind on there as it is, and need the website time for the larger
specimens. I use Ebay exclusively to sell the smaller lower dollar items, still
makes great money, pays the bills etc.
I started collecting like almost everyone else by
buying small items. I do not mean to say at all that this is bad, this is where
most of my money comes from.
The comment about Low quality
that I somehow managed to merge with my ebay sells sentence was out of place. I
meant to say that many meteorites that are found on ebay are low quality. Look
at the Sikhote Alins, they are dirt cheap on ebay, but they are the low quality
specimens, the nicer ones are expensive, and do not sell on ebay. So when
someone tells me that they got a .10 cent per gram SA on ebay and want the same
price for my website specimens, I just laugh.
The market is not ebay, ebay is
a very public display of meteorite sells though. Just because a nice specimen
does not fetch a good price like R. Elliotts Cumberland Falls, this does not
mean that the Cumberland Falls price collapsed, it means Rob took a beating and
someone got very lucky. I wish I had seen it!
Ebay dose NOT = Meteorite Market prices.
Thanks
Mike Farmer
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