[meteorite-list] Cottingham

[Phil Whitmer]

It looks like the two with the biggest beef in this little melodrama are 
Matteo and Bill.  Seriously, have you guys ever actually checked out his 
prices?  They're INSANEly low!  He doesn't like making money, he just likes 
to sell meteorites. I got a nice sized chunk of Weston  for our museum at 
one of his half off sales that anywhere else would cost 3 or 4 times as 
much. And most people sell tiny specks.  Not bad for the first historically 
recognized meteorite in the US.  People interested in selling meteorites 
could learn a thing or two from Cottingham. While Farmer may have been the 
first(?) to the strewnfield, MC was the first to eBay and was getting 140 + 
per gram for West.  That's good marketing if you ask me.

Anyway, it's not worth fighting or writing limericks about.  I don't mind 
ads from Michael or anybody else, it's part of the landscape and if I had 
the extra dinero, I'd be spending like it's 1929!

Phil Whitmer