[meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman

[Dave Freeman mjwy]

Dear Michael;
In my opinion, this is your best post this year Michael!  You have 
captured the essance of those ignorant cheap yardsale mentality inbreds  
that should take up comic books or marbles as a hobby!
Very well done!!!!
A very refreshing read!
Dave F.



Michael L Blood wrote:

>Hi Darren,
>        First, please take note: this response is not directed at you,
>personally, rather the frame of mind you so eloquently expressed
>and which is so common in the meteorite community.
>        I am continually amazed at the lack of awareness of commercial
>justification of pricing. If collectors in the meteorite community were
>subjected to the kind of thinking expressed below in their own professions,
>they would be totally outraged.
>        Completely ignored (in this specific case) include (but are in no
>way limited to the following:
>- Extensive (lifetime, really) experience on the part of the producer
>that allowed him to make a video of any significance in the first place
>- The cost of the trip, overall, in immediate out of pocket expenses that
>allowed him to make the video
>- The relative unlikelihood of the vast majority of potential buyers of
>ever going on a journey like this themselves.
>- The expense of going on a journey like this one's self
>-  The educational value to those who might actually go on such a trip
>in the future.
>- Countless other factors.
>        Why should bypass surgery cost so much if a "smooth" operation
>can be performed in just a few hours? Why should one have to pay a
>welder $25 for a single weld he can do in 6 minutes? Why should one
>have to pay $125 for a golf pro to spend just one hour helping one
>knock a few strokes off one's game? Why should we pay $6 at a matinee
>or $10 at night to see Star Wars when we can own a knock off for a few
>bucks? Why, why, why? I pay a friend $40/ hr who has the know how to fix
>anything on my computer - with a one hr minimum. If he fixes it in 6
>minutes, $40. Why?
>        I have continually been amazed at the shoddy way many collectors
>relate to professional meteorite dealers.
>        If all the engineers, professors, welders, computer tecs, Dr.s,
>lawyers, etc. who collect meteorites had that happen to them in their
>professions, they would yell bloody murder and, likely, several murders
>would occur (note the deaths involved in the formation of unions in the
>first half of the 20th century).
>        I, being a dealer, immediately sent my $12.50 to Steve, knowing I
>would be getting something far more valuable than my stinking $12.50.
>I know, because I am aware of the countless "hidden costs" in everything
>to do with this business.
>        It boggles my mind people still think this way about meteorite
>dealers. This resentment can be heard over and over again in hundreds
>and thousands of posts to this list, in aside comments at shows, etc.
>Darren, this way of thinking is in no way unique to you - it is a major
>common head set - perhaps held by the majority of collectors - and if
>not, certainly a huge minority of them. So, again, please don't feel I am
>directing these comments to you - it is to everyone who holds onto
>this strange notion that meteorite dealers are some sort of scam artists.
>(There are a few - but VERY FEW, and to the best of my knowledge, they
>are all very well known).
>        So, all the hundreds of collectors that I have heard voice disdain
>for people making a profit in this business. Have you noted how many
>dealers are actually wealthy? And those few that are, have you noticed all
>they went through to get where they are today?
>    It is to all of you I ask the question, what would happen if people
>thought that way about YOUR profession? What if you were resented
>by 30 to 60% of the people you deal with just for making a profit at what
>you do? Not an outrageous profit, mind you, just a survival/try to get
>ahead a little profit?
>        No answer required - really. Just food for thought.
>
>        
>
>on 6/4/05 10:07 PM, Darren Garrison at cynapse at charter.net wrote:
>
>  
>
>>On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:28:33 -0400, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>For all of you who ordered the DVD, please give me some feed back on what you
>>>think?
>>>      
>>>
>>I didn't order the disc myself because I found the price too HIGH.  Granted, I
>>assumed that it would
>>be simply a burned DVD-R and that you wouldn't be going through all the
>>trouble of buying cases,
>>labels, inserts, etc.  Good brand-name DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs should cost you under
>>50 cents each and
>>"slim line" jewel cases should run you around 35 cents or less each.  So each
>>disc plus case would
>>cost you under $1.00 total (shipping excluded, of course).  I doubt anyone on
>>the list was expecting
>>a fancy box set for it, after all.  (Fancy box sets to lust after here:
>>http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=392401)
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