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Michael this was a private email from me to you.
Thanks for putting it public. The point is the same. you are praising someone
for something when they did the exact opposite. That is my point.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 8:02
PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Park Forest
- Round Two
Hi Mike,
Sorry, I
had no idea you would take my comments personally.
Sincerely, Michael
on
4/6/03 7:20 PM, Michael Farmer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 -----
From: Michael L Blood
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Adam Hupe <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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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
--
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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