[meteorite-list] Literal Meteorite Price Lists...I got some--want em?

[Nicholas Gessler]

This would be a good idea.  So would archiving all of eBay's meteorite 
auctions.  However, it's an enormous task:  Let's see...
400 auctions per week times 52 weeks is around 20,000.  Times 10 years, is 
about 200,000.  With 300x400 images or 100k pixels times 3 bytes per pixel 
is 300k bytes per auction (minimum).  Times 20,000 is 6 megabytes for one 
year, or 60 for 10.  It's late.  Someone please check my math.  Maybe it is 
feasible?  Especially by someone who can write the code to do this 
automatically.  But not by me...

And then what have we got?  Does the fact that someone paid $100 for xyz 
two years ago mean that $50 is a fair price today?  Or $200?  Oh 
well.  Actually, I think the collection of photographs would be worth much 
more than the collection of prices!

Cheers,
Nick