[meteorite-list] Moroccan business meteorite is suffering

[Greg Hupé]

Hello Said and All,

Typically when there is more competition, the prices are driven down. In 
this situation where prices are going up, I would suggest that this is 
another sign that supply is indeed drying up in the Sahara. The fact that 
the Algerian finders are going direct is not unlike Moroccan dealers going 
direct to collectors a few years ago, they simply want to larger piece of 
the pie and no longer want to go through the old fashioned 
Finder-Broker-Wholesaler-Retailer model that used to work.

With technology advancing so much from the 'early days' of the Moroccan 
'gold rush' some 15-20 years ago, it is a simple matter of getting online, 
post an ad on this List, Facebook or emailing people directly, everyone has 
some sort of device that allows them to 'connect' with buyers. I remember 
when I was amazed 12 years ago when I was on the border of Morocco and 
Algeria going from Berber tent to tent asking if any of the nomads had 
stones for sale -- the amazing part was that one of the nomads pulled a cell 
phone out from under his robe and made a call from way out in the middle of 
the desert! Turns out that countries like Morocco and others have had a far 
more advanced communication infrastructure compared to the US at the time. 
It was only a matter of time before the finders got 'connected' and grabbed 
their piece of that pie.

The one aspect that Said was referring to that I do not like is that some of 
these newer 'brokers' make claims they own particular stones they offer 
around the world, where in fact as Said points out, they have ZERO financial 
risk involved. I suppose they are smarter than the rest of us old timers who 
still believe in the archaic 'cash-n-carry' mentality!

Sounds like a new "Market Trends" article Capt. Blood! ;-)

Best Regards,
Greg

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-----Original Message----- 
From: Said Haddany
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 6:12 PM
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Moroccan business meteorite is suffering

Hi  all,
the issue about the shortness of the material and also the high prices of 
meteorites in morocco has nothing to do with the world economy..
this is becuase even there was bad economy there were some meteorites that 
were sold at a very good price,,,This is not our issue ..
the problem we try to talk about is the reasons why prices of meteorites are 
going up recently in Morocco..
Not the Moroccan dealers who are the responsible of this,but the prices are 
way too high from the native suppliers who are Algerians or few Moroccan 
nomads ...US AND European and Moroccan dealers are complaining about this 
not only US or European dealers because we,moroccans,buy stones also from 
other people..We are all the same like you all in the market...
Lets go back to the reasons why the prices are too high,,
In Morocco we have some brokers who,have nothing to do with this 
business,jumped on the market and destroying the proper manner of buying and 
sellling ..They got on contact with some algerian via moroccan nomads and 
made a bad competition and they sometimes offered high prices to Algerian 
trying to overdominate the market and they make the suppliers or the finder 
keep dreaming with crazy prices ..
cheers
  Said Haddany


--- On Mon, 5/30/11, Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Moroccan business meteorite is suffering
> To: "Adam" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 12:00 PM
>
> Yes, most Moroccan dealers fail to realize the world
> economy is in the worst
> downturn since the great depression and barely showing
> signs of recovery.  For
> example, they are stilling asking $10.00/gram for Eucrites
> when only $5.00/gram
> can be realized on eBay, even after suffering a cutting
> loss. In the end, they
> will find out how tough a market it really is. No amount of
> hype or press will
> bring the prices up on the open market. It is a supply and
> demand issue.  Maybe
> once the stockpiles which are dwindling are exhausted the
> prices will go back
> up.  Until then, I will be purchasing older U.S. finds
> which are priced most
> reasonably at a few dollars per gram.
>
> Happy Hunting,
>
> Adam
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