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[Michael Farmer]

Ok Steve you win I lose this game. I will sit back and watch from now on for the good of us all. 
Too happy right now to argue.
Michael Farmer

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Michael 


On Jul 15, 2009, at 4:28 PM, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 7/15/2009 1:03:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
meteoritehunter at comcast.net writes:
Steve even a monkey would understand the  difference between a minted  
coin with numbers stamped on and a plastic  box with handwritten paper.  
By the way we many thousands for each  limited edition coin. So yes no  
one would deny that the meteorite is  not worth anything to speak of  
but the work in making the coin cost  plenty.

We sell enogh of them that is for sure.
Michael  Farmer

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Mike,

You don't get it do you?

I have no problem with  making and selling meteorite coins as collectibles. 

Never once have you  ever heard me say anything bad about them.  

In fact, we might just  mint a Meteorite Men collectible coin now that I am 
thinking about it,  especially if you promise to get mad about it and come 
here on the list and help  promote it by saying it is a stupid "Billy Mays" 
idea.

My point was to  sarcastically point out that you are a big hypocrite in 
just about everything  thing you do.  I am sure someone with more free time 
than I have could go  back in the archives and pull out all kinds of things 
that you come on here and  vomit about, spewing your vile hatred and 
jealousies about, when you have done  some of the same things yourself. 

In the big scheme of things, putting a  meteorites in plastic holders and 
assigning a limited edition numbers is not  that evil of a thing to do.  
Really Mike, it isn't that bad.

We as  dealers often promote the Total Known Weight (TKW) and the Total 
Available  Weight (TAW) outside of public collections as a factor in helping 
people  determine how rare something is.  Nininger made up things like the 
Canyon  Diablo Stars.  Are you telling me that if the Nininger Stars had  a 
piece of paper on them with a hand written limited edition number on them, it  
would not help their values as collectibles?

Would it have helped Nininger sell more back then if he did?   Probably 
not...but maybe.  Will they help me sell more now?  Probably  not...but maybe.  
So why not do it?  It takes more time to make up  each one that way, but my 
guess is that if I had one up that was not limited and  an identical one up 
that was part of a limited edition, the limited edition one  would bring a 
bit of a premium. 

You think it is stupid.  I think, why not do it, just in case it isn't  
stupid?  If it doesn't help, all I am out is a little extra time in  
individualizing each one.

So as a dealer today, what is wrong with me  saying I am only going to 
selling 6 pieces of Colony in the slabs, and that is  it.  Or I am only selling 
7 of Delaware, AR?  Do you ever come on the  list and say "Only one 
remaining"?  Or "Only 3 complete slices will come  from this specimen? 

You do it all the time.  All the time.  

Yet you and your Tourette's Syndrome of the finger tips just can't hold  
back from coming on here and bashing me every chance you get.  It is  actually 
getting quite flattering Mike.

And then you can't resist telling  me that people are "laughing at me" as 
if that would really matter to me.  

If I was insecure and obsessively worried about what people think about me  
and that people might be laughing at me (like some people must obviously 
be)  then maybe it would bother me.  But I don't really care if people  laugh 
at me.  In fact, the comedian in me kind of likes the idea that  people are 
laughing.  

Besides, getting advice from you on how I should act to avoid  other people 
laughing behind my back is, well...ironic at  best, considering the source. 


At worst, it is like how the Republican leaders come on the TV and  give 
advice to the Democrats to tell them what they need to do if the  Democrats 
want to get reelected.   

So rest assured Mike,  you don't have to come on here and defend yourself 
as to why minting coins is a  good idea.  I like the idea.  

I was just using irony to get my  point across. 

Someone suggested that I should sell one of the T-shirts I  wore on the TV 
show on Ebay, just to tweak you even more.  I could number  it #1 of 1.  
What do you think Mike?  Would I get more than $1 for  it?

If you promise to get mad, and promote it on the list for me, I  will put 
the T-shirt up for sale, just for you.

Oh, and for the rest of you, FYI the president of the Science Channel has  
inquired with us about the possibility of selling meteorites from 
Discovery's  website, maybe even promoting them on our show.  Testing out a  possible 
idea on a small scale is not always considered a "stupid" idea before  
suggesting rolling out thousands of something.  

Steve Arnold
of  "Meteorite Men"

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