Dear Steve and List, Your answer points to the need of an advance-prepared press release so that reporters get their facts straight and so that there is less chance of a mis-quote. Reporters are infamous for making headlines and ignoring the facts. Good use of the reporter and news to get the word out for video evidence. Have a great day in your hunt! Best, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
--- On Thu, 7/9/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:23 PM > In a message dated 7/9/2009 4:46:27 > A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] > writes: > Regarding what a meteorite is worth.... it is worth > what you or someone is > willing to pay, so I suggest that you re-phrase the > question to the > reporter when asked, and reply that "I am willing to > pay up to... (or a realistic > price) range". > > Dirk, > > The problem is that I am not willing to pay anything for > a meteorite, at > least not now. I didn't come here to buy a meteorite. And > as such, I didn't > talk to the media about buying one. I was asking for > people to check their > video and to come forward if they had any footage with the > fireball. > > The reporters didn't ask me what I was willing to > pay. They asked me > somewhere in the context of "All this effort,spent time and > money, to come up > here and do all this work, are meteorites worth it?" > Which I answered with > the normal response of how they can be valuable to science, > bla, bla, bla, > and that museums and researchers and private > collectors are interested, bla, > bla, bla. And then I was asked "Well, what are > meteorites worth?" > > And, even if I was wanting to buy a meteorite, I > still would not quote a > price, because I don't give quotes for purchase when > I don't know how big it > is, what condition it is in, or the supply and demand > factors involved at > the moment of making the offer. All that can > change, and about the only > thing certain, is that when the time might come to > make a real offer on a > real meteorite, I would most likely be willing to pay > more or less, maybe far > more or far less than any quote I would give back in > the hypothetical > stage. > > Again, the question to me wasn't what I was willing to pay, > but what > meteorites are worth. > > Now, I have some work to do, and some rocks to go > find. > > Have a nice day. > > Steve Arnold > of "Meteorite Men" > > **************Dell Studio XPS Desktop: Save up to $400 - > Limited Time Offer > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222466512x1201463496/aol?redir=htt > p:%2F%2Faltfarm.mediaplex.com%2Fad%2Fck%2F12309%2D81939%2D1629%2D3) > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
