[meteorite-list] AD: Wisconsin Fireball Meteorite Fall Part Slices on Ebay NOW 1 day

[Brian Cox]

Uh, excuse me, Wait a minute, ok..... Something doesn't sound right here at 
all. I hate to be the buttinsky here and call anyone out, but as I 
understood it all the collectors/dealer/.amateurs/locals   HAD to PAY the 
Farmers and Landowners Before They Left The Property with What They Found 
and not 1 week or 1 month or 6 months or 1 year after they walked off the 
property what money the meteorites were worth.

Everyone PAID Upfront, not a day later nor next week or next month nor next 
year.

People are reading about selling on ebay and then commenting that they 
understand that the meteorites have to be sold so that you can "Pay the 
Farmer" after they sell???? That is a Load of Crap.

No one up there signed a contract with those landowners and farmers and 
showed their Driver's license or gave them their address to wait for 
payment. Those farmers are not idiots. They did NOT let anyone walk off 
their land without paying up for what was found unless people hid meteorites 
or ran off the property like some guy did on Friday and then the farmer 
chased everyone off and said no more hunting.

All people up there HAD to Pay the farmer a fee such as $50 per day per 
person to hunt and then you had to show your meteorites to the landowner and 
they weighed them and you had to pay at that time $4 per gram for your half. 
It was a 50/50 deal. If you had a 20 gram meteorite, then it was 20 x $4 
=$80 and then you had to pay the farmer $40.

If this isn't correct, then please correct me now, because this is what 100 
other hunters were doing and there is no Dumb Landowner that I know of that 
took anyone's word and is sitting back watching ebay to see how much these 
meteorites are going to sell for and is going to watch for the mail or watch 
Paypal for his half to magically appear.

Aren't I right?