I'm looking forward to getting it. It's not such a crazy way to spend your money, Steve Arnold says. Arnold, of course, is in the business. He brings together sellers and buyers and takes a percentage of the sale price. It's just plain neat to hold something in your hand from another part of the universe.
People buy diamonds because they want to impress people.
But he says they shouldn't necessarily buy meteorites to improve their bank accounts. There has been an upward momentum in the value of meteorites. You're buying it because you hope some day a greater fool will come along and pay more for it than you did. David Hirskovitz disagrees. Probably one of the fastest growing.