Here is an idea..........
Reputable retailers (like at the mall) will give you a reduction in price if an item you buy goes on sale within a reasonable amount of time. Why wouldn't this work for meteorite dealers?
Example........ If I sell XXX meteorite this week for $100- per gram and then put it on sale next week for $50- per gram, I give a partial refund to everyone who bought it from me the first week.
Randy
>From: Michael L Blood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Michael Cottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,M come Meteorite Meteorites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20% offeverything on ...
>Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 10:12:05 -0700
>
>Michael,
> Why don't I "PRAISE some of the CHEAPEST prices around?"
>Read my article this month in METEORITE TIMES. If you read that
>and STILL can't figure out why I don't "PRAISE some of the CHEAPEST
>prices around?" Let me make it clear right here:
> When you offer merchandise for a given price, then offer the
>same material later for less - then, if you don't sell all of it at that
>price, you offer it later for even less - over and over and over, as
>you do, Michael, you create several effects that go far beyond your
>personal reality.
> For one thing, you give buyers the message they should never buy
>now, wait, and the price will go down (however, this only badly hurts
>all dealers, not necessarily the collectors.). However, you ALSO burn
>ALL your own customers who paid more for this material when you
>originally offered it.
> I buy something from you for $3.50/g and 2 weeks later you drop
>the price to $1.75/g - I feel RIPPED OFF. (perhaps you STILL don't get
>this, despite doing this to all of us who invested heavily in Wagon
>Wheel - which you, then proceeded to GIVE AWAY. Those of us in for
>$3.50 a gram felt really burned and I, for one, told you that strait to
>your face and I KNOW several others who did as well.) ALSO, when
>you do this, there is NO STABILITY in the meteorite market.
> Low prices, I am all for it. My collection has never been "gaining
>weight" so fast. I can make just as much money dealing low priced
>material as high priced material. No problem. It is the instability
>that TOTALLY destabilizes everything
> It really doesn't matter (on a market level) whether meteorites
>are "cheap" or "expensive" - of course, as a collector, I prefer them
>cheap - but as a dealer, I don't care one way or the other. WHAT I DO
>CARE ABOUT IS STABILITY. Without it, neither collectors OR dealers
>can conduct business in a sane manor.
> Your CONSTANT "fire sales" followed by even greater fire sales
>undermine that stability entirely. No one can reckon the "value"
>of material, because the prices are running all over the board. But
>you get your cash in hand NOW and that is all you care about.
> So, Michael, THAT is why I don't "praise some of the cheapest
>prices around." Get it? Or, is it STILL too subtle for you?
> I resent it as a collector and I resent it as a dealer.
> Sincerely, Michael Blood
>
>
>on 10/8/03 12:27 AM, Michael Cottingham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Maybe I just really don't want to sell that piece that bad!!!
> > Hey ...why don't you look at the other pieces and PRAISE some of the
> > CHEAPEST prices around!
> >
> > Really folks ...don't look for ghosts on this one. Either
> > buy the pieces or don't. It is all up front and it is a public sale.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Michael Cottingham
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "M come Meteorite Meteorites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20% off
> > everything on ...
> >
> >
> >> it resolves with these useless sentences
> >>
> >> Matteo
> >>
> >> --- Michael Cottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> >>> It is something else....
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:05 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re:
> >>> [MeteoriteCollectors] BS AD: 20% off everything on
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >>> Matteo and Michael Blood should go back to
> >>> bed...you nit wits!
> >>> C'mon Michael (C.) - that doesn't really address
> >>> Michael (B.)'s inquiry about your "discount"
> >>> pricing. If it's just a (moderately-insulting)
> >>> marketing ploy to get the same net amount of money
> >>> for a rock, just say so. If it's something else,
> >>> just say so. I'm speaking as a past
> >>> customer....could you please answer the question?
> >>>
> >>> Gregory
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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