[meteorite-list] Excessively Large Reward a bad precedent.

[Rob Wesel]

Inflated field prices

Landowners refusing to allow their property hunt

Risk to all hunters safety from mugging or perceived attempts to con the 
public

Flooding the area with every kid on spring break who doesn't consider the 
care needed to maintain a good relationship with landowners.

Imagine the tension you would feel of all of a sudden garden gnomes were as 
rare as meteorites and hundreds of people show up in your neighborhood 
because a garden gnome from your area sold for $20K. Would you feel safe? 
Would you want to work with gnome hunters? I am always amazed at how kind 
landowners are but if you chum the water it ain't gonna happen. Huge amounts 
do get paid in the field but it needs to be done in private.

This type of action gets one twenty thousand dollar piece safely out of the 
strewnfield...maybe.

I met a man in Park Forest at the peak of sales (~$20-30/g in the retail 
world not the field ) who had a 1kg stone. He was carrying it like a baby 
chicken "How much would you give me for this". I replied that I only had 
about $5k to offer for it. "I've had guys offer me $35K and said no" as he 
retracted the stone. I tried to tell him to forget about me then and take 
the higher offer, to bring it to Applebee's where all the hunters met at 
night and see what he could make of it. He never showed up. I often wonder 
what he ever got, or perhaps never got for it because the TV, newspapers and 
planetarium were telling him it was worth so much. Now we have the hunters 
saying the same thing......

Very bull in a china shop this is, myopic

Rob Wesel
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
------------------
We are the music makers...
and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Willy Wonka, 1971