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Michael, I am sorry to burst your bubble, but Adam
did exactly EXACTLY that! He was in the room and offered $15 k for the meteorite
I had just bought for $12K. Can't people just frigging tell things like they
are?
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 11:15
AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Park Forest
- Round Two
Hi Adam,
Excellent
post. You and Greg are two of the few sane dealers who
have an awareness
about the price impact of your actions. Amazing
TOTALLY amazing how rare
this is.
I have been harping on
this subject my entire career and have
turned up the volume since the
Monahans event (interesting I have
become good friends with Steve since
then and have a great deal of
respect for him). However, I have yet to meet
a dealer who can hear
a word I say on the topic. They seam to either "get
it" or not and
nothing said affects them one way or the
other.
I heard of dealers
negotiating with people in Park Forrest only
to have another dealer rudely
interrupt with, "Hell, I'll give you more
than THAT for it!" right on the
spot. This is the kind of unthinking
avarice that impacts price - not your
report to the list you
referenced.
Thank you for being a
conscientious dealer - and a damned good
reporter, too.
Sincerely, Michael Blood
on 4/6/03 10:39 AM, Adam Hupe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear
List,
Here we go again!
I am personally glad to be home after spending five intense days in
the so-called "Urban Strewnfield". For those of you who were not able
to go you did not miss much. The weather was horrible, most of the
neighborhood was rough and the greed was amazing.
My brother, Greg
arrived yesterday and met up with Al Lang to pick up an entire bedroom that
had been hammered by one of these stones. We will reconstruct the
bedroom with the ceiling that had two holes punched in it, the venetian
blinds that were split down the center, a metal windowsill with a huge
impact crater and a mirror that was shattered, all hit by the same meteorite
that thankfully missed a boy by inches as he was sleeping. This
collection will be displayed proudly next to the Peekskill car in a private
museum. We plan on possibly displaying the collection at the Tucson
show next year if there is enough interest. We acquired several other
impacted items from all over the strewn field and will integrate them into
another interpretive display. This represents the world's largest collection
of man-made objects impacted by meteorites. We feel it is important to
preserve these historical items for future generations to enjoy.
On
another note:
Why couldn't the meteorite have landed somewhere in a rural
area?, maybe next time. I do not believe the prices would have been so
high if the stones where recovered by farmers and ranch-hands. Word
spread like wild fire in the Park Forest neighborhood about prices being
realized for stones that hit things. These street-smart finders then
played a lot of dealers and collectors in the field for as much money as
they could get and now everybody is paying the price. You can blame
dealers who lacked the patience to negotiate better prices and manage the
situation in a professional manner for these high prices. Instead
money was thrown around exciting the neighborhood into a feeding frenzy.
I owned up to my part in this whole thing with a post called "Park
Forest - the pulling of teeth". If I contributed in anyway to the high
prices, I apologize. I admit there were a few times when we paid more
than we should have.
Wishing everybody well,
Adam Hupe
IMCA 2185
The whole problem
with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of
themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand
Russell
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Worth Seeing:
- Earth at night from
satelite:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
-
Interactive Lady Liberty:
http://doody36.home.attbi.com/liberty.htm
-
Earth - variety of choices:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
--
Panoramic view of Meteor
Crater:
http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/Arizona/GrandCanyonRoute66/MeteorCrater/MeteorCraterRimL.html
--
Cool
Calendar &
Clock:
http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html
--
Michael
Blood Meteorites & Didgeridoos for sale
at:
http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/
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