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[Darryl Pitt]

Hi Again, Darren...

Gotta jump in for a minute before taking off....

Two very different thoughts were thrown together and the result is a  
bit confusing.

I was not suggesting to keep prices high.  Oh my golly, no.  I am only  
attempting to suggest that a longer view should be taken and that it  
would be nice if an  effort were made to reduce the number of pricing  
anomalies.  By the way, most wealthy collectors I know do not buy  
common specimens.  The involvement of such collectors simply provides  
increased stability by driving overall demand which enhances the value  
of all of our collections---not a bad thing.  It's going to be a long,  
long time before any of us have to worry about an inability to be able  
to snag cheap meteorites.


All best and wishing everyone a nice Sunday!

Darryl



On Dec 7, 2008, at 2:26 PM, Darren Garrison wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 12:57:16 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> This is a serious business...
>
> One last point on this-- of course a "business" will legitamately  
> want to make
> as much money for product or service X as they can for it-- but it  
> is entirely a
> different matter to expect customers of said business to want the  
> business to
> charge more, which is what Darryl said and I was replying to--
>
> quote:
>
> "Everything else being the same, no witnessed fall should ever sell  
> for
> a couple of bucks a gram, and we should all strive to make certain
> this doesn't occur."
>
> Meaning-- we should try to keep the prices of these high, even if  
> they could
> sell for less.  With the implication that this is to attract "serious
> collectors", which seems to mean rich people collecting for future  
> profits.
>
> Now, while (to illustrate with some other buyable product) it is  
> well and good
> for Best Buy to want $1000 for a flat-screen TV if they can get it.   
> But it
> isn't reasonable to expect the customer to want Best Buy to charge  
> $1000 for
> that flat-screen when it COULD sell for $100.  If what it costs to  
> sell it at a
> profit is $1000, then fine.  But if it could be sold for $100, why  
> on Earth
> would the customer be expected to get behind selling it for $1000  
> just because
> $100 is "too cheap"?  My position as a consumer is to attempt to pay  
> the lowest
> reasonable cost for any item.
>
> I'd think that the main expense for hunters isn't the travel costs,  
> but the cost
> of buying the meteorites from the land owner, who always expect it  
> to be a "get
> rich quick" situation.  If the land owners expect (and get) a price  
> that
> requires hunters to resell it at around $50 a gram, then that's what  
> the hunters
> will have to charge.  But if the land owners didn't expect as much  
> money, then
> the resellers wouldn't have to charge as much money.  It is a  
> feedback loop.
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