Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-30 Thread Adam Hupe
- From: valpar...@aol.com valpar...@aol.com To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 10:25 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales Sorry about the previous post - itchy trigger finger. I've been doing some similar record keeping for ebay

[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-30 Thread valparint
A summary: Total auctions: 1250 Period covered: 2/27/2013 - 8/28/2013 Total mass: 22192.6 grams Total cost: $248,393 Average price-per-gram: $11.19 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-30 Thread Michael Farmer
eBay is not the world market, and sadly these dealers are cutting their own throats, selling non-stop even after they are in the profit. Lunacy. There is a thing called market saturation, you can only sell so many of the same item and then your customers are tapped out. Smart people would stop

[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-30 Thread valparint
Sorry about the previous post - itchy trigger finger. I've been doing some similar record keeping for ebay sales and can add this about Chelyabinsk specimens = 3 grams: Through the end of March, the average cost per gram, including shipping, was about $35. This declined steadily. For August

[meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-29 Thread Matson, Robert D.
Hi All, If anyone is interested, for the past 6 months I've been compiling the closing prices, masses and sellers of eBay Chelyabinsk meteorite sales in an Excel spreadsheet. The dataset is quite large now (1250 points) and includes all eBay sales of Chelyabinsk masses greater than or equal to 3

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Farmer
That is amazing work Robert, I would love to see it. Millions were spent on Chelyabinsk worldwide, that's for sure. The mexico event last week could easily have been just as large or larger based on the videos so far released, but it seems most likely the meteoroid skipped back out into space!

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-29 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Rob, This is awesome. Some of the numbers are interesting, if not surprising. Average cost per gram is about typical for OC falls in Russia - a little less than US/Canada/Europe falls and more than most Saharan falls. However, given the global attention Chelya received and the massive

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-29 Thread Richard Montgomery
...@saic.com Cc: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales Hi Rob, This is awesome. Some of the numbers are interesting, if not surprising. Average cost per gram is about typical

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-29 Thread Richard Montgomery
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales That is amazing work Robert, I would love to see it. Millions were spent on Chelyabinsk worldwide, that's for sure. The mexico event last week could

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales

2013-08-29 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: six months of eBay sales Hi Rob, This is awesome. Some of the numbers are interesting, if not surprising. Average cost per gram is about typical for OC falls in Russia - a little less than US/Canada/Europe falls and more than most Saharan falls