[meteorite-list] Question: Just How ...?

[Darren Garrison]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:33:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>  The question is: How did you "find out" that it was
>possible to actually BUY a meteorite!?  

Ebay.  I had been buying fossils on Ebay for years and, one day, started
wondering what other weird things were sold on there.  Meteorites popped into my
head, and I looked and found them.  I thought that my first meteorite purchases
were in 2002, and the purchases start showing up there-- heres the SECOND one:

To: cynapse at greenville.infi.net
Subject: Good news! Zag Meteorite,  Unusal H3-6 Regolith Breccia (Item
#2133904892) ended successfully!
From: endofauction at ebay.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:32:17 PDT

Congratulations darren_garrison!

The following eBay item was purchased instantly using Buy It Now.

Item Name:          Zag Meteorite,  Unusal H3-6 Regolith Breccia
Item Number:        #2133904892
Item Price:         $5.99
Quantity:           1





But then again, the first one that shows up in my archives is from 1998--

To: cynapse at greenville.infi.net
Subject: henbury meteorite
From: Michael Farmer <farmerm at concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 06:55:38 -0700

You have won the 3.5 gram henbury meteorite on ebay. The total with
shipping is $10.99. Please email me your address. Please send check or
money order to me at




But I don't remember buying anything that far back-- I still have that Henbury
(shale) piece, but I must have bought it as a "one off" weird item and didn't
think about it again until 2002.  Unless the e-mail was dated incorrectly?
Mike, were you selling meteorites on Ebay in 1998?