I havent seen the usual september jump in ebay and internet sales this year but
I have been busy with the shop and havent listed much stuff so I cant complain
and sales have been good. There are plenty of new meteorite collectors driving
the market and I dont see a slowdown in sales and everything is OK here.
I do see some longer term (So called serious) collectors still with their head
in the sand believing that all this talk about the desert being hunted out and
fewer meteorites being found is nothing more than marketing by dealers. This
even though if you look on ebay prices are up and quality way down and there
has been much much fewer meteorites at denver, tucson, munich and st marie for
3 years now. No moroccans go to these shows with huge tables of meteorites
anymore and they are slowly going back to concentrating on fossil sales because
they cant get enough meteorites to have much of a display. New better items are
notable absent. 6 years ago new achondrites and Cs were almost a weekly
occurance. Everything from the low grade junk to top of the line achondrites
are in short supply nowadays.
I still think that prices cant go lower and that the smart buyers are buying
for investment right now. The only exception is that I still think that lunars
and martians and other expensive meteorites are overpriced and have room to
fall. However, I have been saying that for 3 years now and the increased
quantities necessary hasnt materialized and only a small trickle of the better
achondrites are not keeping up with demand and if I have figured out how the
moroccans operate there dont seem to be quantities stashed away in morocco. I
wasnt offered much more after buying 300 grams of the shergotite two years ago
for example. So maybe the lunars and martians have bottomed out in price also.
I dont see floods anyway and if institutions pick up the buying pace there will
be a massive shortage of these types of meteorites.
So I dont see a real drop off in sales recently and (For me anyway) finding
stuff to buy is a more difficult job than finding customers to buy my
meteorites.
Sincerely
DEAN
www.meteoriteshop.com
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