[meteorite-list] Announcement: CosmicAuctions.com is LIVE!

[Eric Wichman]

Dear Meteorite People,

Please forward this email to EVERYONE on your email list...

This is an idea, a new venue, to bring to you, the meteorite collector, 
dealer, seller, hunter, and enthusiast a trusted place to go to buy sell 
trade and collect authentic meteorites.

We've been working very hard over the last year to bring to the 
meteorite community a brand new and perhaps better venue for collectors 
and dealers. We've asked, interviewed, brainstormed, argued, expanded 
and contracted ideas with many meteorite dealers and collectors about 
what the meteorite community really would like to see, and the one thing 
that kept coming up was authenticity. Fair price was second, and for 
dealers, listing and selling fees were in the top three things that 
needed some serious attention.

I want to personally thank everyone who has helped us bring this new 
site to a reality. Over the last few months I have personally had the 
pleasure to work with many dealers and collectors from across this 
wonderful community and they have been a great help with advice, ideas, 
and suggestions about bringing this site to life. I appreciate 
everyone's patience while we worked on this behind the scenes so as to 
build it in such a way to address the single biggest issue regarding 
selling meteorites on the web. Trust!

Some of you already know about this site. Most of you don't. But either 
way I hope you'll like this idea. It's really a testbed for something 
much larger, and without you guys it will not work. Some of the things 
we have addressed...

1. Trust; To provide a safe and trusted environment to buy sell and 
trade AUTHENTIC meteorites on the web.
2. Price; To garner a fair market price for ALL meteorites sold on this 
site. This is not a race to the lowest price as Ebay is. Yet, the 
bargains will be automatic based on the laws of supply and demand and 
not artificially inflated or lowered due to price wars.
3. Cost; Free Listings to Dealers and Sellers (this includes collectors 
who sell their collections or individual meteorites)

Requirements To Sell: Dealers must be referred by at least 2 other 
members. We tried an idea that maybe dealers should be allowed to sell 
by invitation only. This posed problems as anyone could invite anyone so 
we figured a compromise would be good. Similar to how the IMCA works, 
Dealers and Collectors who wish to sell on the site will be required to 
either be IMCA members in good standing and/or be referred by 2 other 
current site members. You need not be an IMCA member to join or buy, but 
to sell items you must meet these requirements.

Requirements to Buy: You must like meteorites... ;)

We hope that you will take a look, and browse the site. Join, and list 
some items. Try it out. If you don't like it that's ok, if you do like 
it great, and if you love the idea then welcome aboard!

No matter your opinion we want to hear your feedback on this. Seriously...

You are what will make this a success. Ask yourself these 4 questions.

Do you want a safe and trusted place to buy and sell meteorites?
Are you sick and tired of FeeBay's listing fees and costs to sell your 
meteorites?
Do you want to buy meteorites at a fair and reasonable price?
Are you tired of all the fake meteorites on the web?

If you answered YES to any of these questions you owe it to yourself to 
check out this new site. Try it out, list meteorites, buy meteorites and 
enjoy the brand new and world's first meteorite auction site dedicated 
to the meteorite community. These are truly meteorite auctions for 
meteorite people by meteorite people.

Buy Sell Trade Collect & Join Here: http://www.cosmicauctions.com

Again, I'd like to thank all of you who have helped make this possible. 
You know who you are.

Good Luck! Happy Hunting! & Certainly Enjoy the new site!

I welcome any questions or comments.

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
www.meteoritesusa.com
904-236-5394