Hum
I think Belinda Boyle has some good points here. Bird in the hand is
better than two on a web page methinks.
I, for one, wish there were a blue book like the (really yellowish) used
for automobiles in the US for loan and buy/sell.
As a non-PhD in the various sciences of Shelling - I"m Physics, Math,
Engineering myself - little historical price guide in brain.
A good and somewhat up to date pricing guide is needed (Maybe this is a
task for COA to set as leader stance.)
A good descriptive example on how to price a shell.
e.g. - encrusted or not. Limestone coating or not. Parasites left or
not. Hole discount, crack
discount, bleached discount, live collected addition, and so many odds
and ends that make a shell a shell to different
people. ...
1. I know that Museum quality examples run the gambit of ugly but the
only one we can get to live in a tank.
[ I know that since I have one from my collection in a very well
respected Museum in Hawaii. They had ugly. ]
2. Private collectors have the same but tend to be lower in the spectrum
unless one has Fort Knox as a vacation home.
3. Schools tend to fit in both class 1 and 2 as budgets and pecking
order in priority drive from nothing to stellar.
I fully agree in the serious issue of buying something that may sound or
look good and pay quality dollar when only
it is a garden shop quality cement whatnot or plaster whatnot.
This might be an excellent speakers article in July!!!
Searching and looking for answers,
Martin
-- Belinda Boyle wrote:
> Perhaps we are in crisis here in the United States -- However, why is
> it so hard to trust and buy from our own dealers. Rather than buying
> from newbies who are absolutely destroying the seashell business.
>
> Excuse me for my comments: I am just an Oncologist who loves shells
> and my love of saving people lifes. I believe that we should be
> saving our own Seashell Dealers. Or Perhaps we have hurt them much
> too long, and now they are disappearing. We need all of them. The ones
> who have loved their shells, trade and customers, and were so honest
> in dealing with people for years and years. These people are going out
> -- WHY? Because someone offers something cheaper and not real?.
>
> I have been in the business of collecting now for about a year. And
> have tried dealing with people because the prices where lower outside
> of the US, but found I was taken. Not by all, but from many! I bought
> coral that was casted, but looked good and to my eyes who would know.
> What a crime this is! I have researched many people in this business
> for years and found out that the Europe and United States have offered
> unbelievable buys and were honest. I wish I could say the same thing
> for some other countries. Excuse me for being so harsh -- but as this
> newbie I was hurt dramatically. I looked at myself and said would I
> treat my Cancer Patient the way these so called shell dealers were
> treating their clients? NO!!!!
>
> I hope this makes the list: because sometimes it doesn't because of my
> honesty!
>
> I would be hurt if I thought patients where going to different
> countries for the best treatment of Cancer, when in fact you will find
> that Kings, Queens, and upper statesmen find their way to Mayo Clinic
> or John Hopkins and without the help of our government would not be
> around today.
>
> Why can't we think of our Shell Dealers as the best too. You know deep
> in your hearts that they are.
>
> Our seashell dealers in the US can supply you with anything you want
> at the right prices. Why pay high shipping prices like I did and end
> up with total dissatifaction.
>
> Let's try thinking the United States and our dealers. Basically I
> think we have been putting US out of all businesses.
>
> Thank you for listening to me.
>
> Belinda
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2007 8:55:05 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this is a little commercial in content, but I was just
> going through the dealer/commercial links on my Website and
> realized that most of the US dealers sites I had listed are no
> longer functioning.
> Wow! Are we in crisis here? Are dealers going under?
>
> Regards,
> Peter Egerton
>
> --
>
> *Peter Egerton*, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
>
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