[meteorite-list] west,texas comin' northeast

[MeteorHntr at aol.com]

To: Steve Arnold, Chicago

You are a liar!

I know about that  stone you bought.
 
I have seen the stone you bought.

I know where it was  found.

I know who found it, because he was on my team.

I know who  sold it to you.

I know what you paid for it. 

You did NOT pay  $90/g for it.  

You paid CONSIDERABLY less than $90/g for  it.

First off, it is bad enough that you have the same name as I do, and  people 
confuse us all the time.  

Second off, I am pissed that I  have to take time out of the field from 
hunting to write this email to call you  out on this.

What in the hell are you thinking???

Why do you go  publicly on the list and lie like that?

I have been asking about and  asking directly the very few people that have 
found more than one or two  specimens what they will be selling them for, and 
either they don't want to sell  them at any price, or if they do, they don't 
know what they will ask.   

In a supply and demand world, we don't know what the supply is going to  be.  
We have a little guess at what the demand will be, but we just don't  know 
how the equation will work out yet.

Of course you can speculate all  you want as to what the price might be, but 
you are doing GREAT HARM by making  such a post.

And finally, all of us out here are busting our butts to  compile strong 
strewnfield data.  Part of our work involves getting  cooperation from land owners 
to let us hunt.  All your public post is going  to do is going to give fuel 
to land owners to not let anyone hunt, as they might  think they are being 
taken advantage of.   

The reason some of  these meteorites might sell at a premium is not because 
they are inherently  WORTH a premium, but that it is costing a FORTUNE in man 
hours to just find  them.  If someone spends $1,000 to come out, plus lost 
wages being away  from work to find a 10 gram rock, why on earth would they sell 
it for less than  $100/gram?  

It is not because, as in the above case, it is worth  $150/g to the buyer, 
but that it actually cost the finder that much to get  it.

You SO don't get this, and I fear you have now caused irreversible  harm to 
the ENTIRE recovery project.

OK, enough, I have to get back to  picking up rocks.

The Steve Arnold
(not to be confused with the liar  Steve Arnold from Chicago)





In a message dated 2/25/2009  6:18:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, 
stevenarnold60120 at yahoo.com writes:
Hi  and good morning list.First congrats to all the people out in the 
west,texas  field looking and finding piece's of the new fall.I hope you find more 
for all  the collecters.Well it seems that through various reasons as what the 
price per  gram might end being,if dealers or finders of the new fall want to 
sell,it seems  that $100 per gram is going to be the going price.Well I got 
lucky!I will be  getting a 7.2 gram whole stone for $90 a gram.Still a lot but if 
it holds  true,most of the people who found these are going to be holding on 
to them.I  want to publicly thank my seller for making this available to me so 
quickly.I  look forward to getting it and looking for the classification.And 
if any list  members are lucky enough to get a piece,good luck to you.

Steve  R.Arnold,Chicago!
http://chicagometeorites.net/
 
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