[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall Over Eastern Turkish Village: Poor Villagers Make Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars After Black Stones From Space Rain Down

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I moved away from collecting new falls when I paid over $600.00 a gram for 
Claxton and could only realize less than $140.00 a gram a few years later 
when broken down into smaller pieces.  Peekskill can be had for a fraction 
of the price it once sold for.   The asking is price is way too high on this 
new Howardite when the famous Kopoeta Howardite with much more history and 
much less total weight only fetches around $100.00 a gram at auction.

Then there are a few other issues like greedy con artists substituting fresh 
NWA material for witnessed falls or a serious decline in collectors 
disposable income since 2008 that puts downward price pressure on all 
collectables.

A collectable of any sort has to be extremely desirable and very different 
to survive as an investment in this very slowly recovering economy.

Adam