You know, I mulled his concept over a little more last night. For just for a moment of fantasy, let's assum that he was truthful about this "contest". He wants one of his prizes to be a $100,000 meteorite. Which would mean, I would guess, that the other 11 prizes to reach the $1,000,000 would NOT be meteorites. Which means that it wouldn't be a "contest" attractive mainly to meteorite collectors. That leads to a few questions:
Would a non-meteorite collector be impressed by a $100,000 meteorite? Would a non-meteorite collector be more impressed by a $100,000 meteorite than by a $1,000 meteorite? Especially concidering that a $100,000 would probably have to be a chunk of a planetary sample, and fit in the palm of your hand? If that non-meteorite collector WAS impressed by his $100,000 meteorite, would he be willing to pay the hefty tax bill that he would need to pay to keep that meteorite (at least in the US). I don't know the exact tax rate for prize winnings, but I'd figure that he'd have to pay at least $20,000 to $30,000 to keep it. I'd think, as a general rule of thumb, usually people that can't afford to pay $100,000 for a meteorite also can't afford to pay $20,000 for a meteorite. Wouldn't that non-meteorite collector, IF he could afford to drop $20,000 or more on taxes the next year, much rather have, oh, a new house, a pretty nice boat, or a damned nice sports car for those tax dollars? If it were a real prize in a real contest, it sure isn't a well thought out one. Again, taking the fantasy position that this isn't an out-and-out scam, who here wants to bet that he has the cash on hand to pay for the meteorite and the other $900,000 worth of prizes? Or is it more likely that he is wanting to SELL slots in the "contest" and from those sales make enough money to pay for the prizes after the fact? (Of course, the most likely outcome is that he'd pocket any money from people dumb enough to buy into the contest AND keep any "prizes" people were dumb enough to send to him on credit). On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 09:52:54 -0700, "Michael Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Look what the CEO of this major company wrote to me! "ARE" request. I think >he means "our" request. And then there is the "your just a rude little >punk". Someone tell him that it is spelled "you're just a rude litte punk". >I am too rude to carry out such a critique. >Mike Farmer >Merry Christmas to all. >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 9:36 PM >Subject: SAP > > >> Hello >> >> After reading your email on are request and some of the posts on >> "meteorite central" your just a rude little punk. >> >> How else would you put out a request for a meteorite smart ass? >> >> Rick >> >> > > >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
