I hear some "rock enthusiasts" are insisting i bought fake stone

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No-one cares Dave, shut up.
wrong kind of telescope and very tiny compared to the 200 inch I was at during 1973. as for my telescope it is a Meade LX200 12 inch ACF GPS catadioptric. But then at the local astronomy club I am known for knowing all the deep sky objects without a map. And there is a game we play you have to start with M 1 and work your way up without computer assistance. Most can not find the crab nebula without it.
He sucked another hobo off. The hobo then said “I’ll have to owe you” and ran off.
Lol I remember that ( put it on my tab guy )
 
I think Tom's biggest problem is that even if his rocks are worth something, no one would ever buy from him, because of how he looks/smells. When people deal in anything but trinket money, they want to deal with someone that looks like a businessperson. Tom looks like someone who is from the "After" photos in The Faces of Meth. No one wants to do business with someone that has no teeth. If you can't put in the effort to maintain your teeth, no one is going to trust to do business with you.
The Rapa River show itself looks like a flea market compared to the gem and mineral show held at the convention centre, which has special exhibits of famous items and displays from private collections.

 
The Rapa River show itself looks like a flea market compared to the gem and mineral show held at the convention centre, which has special exhibits of famous items and displays from private collections.

That's how people have been using Rapa, as a flea market.
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wrong kind of telescope and very tiny compared to the 200 inch I was at during 1973. as for my telescope it is a Meade LX200 12 inch ACF GPS catadioptric. But then at the local astronomy club I am known for knowing all the deep sky objects without a map. And there is a game we play you have to start with M 1 and work your way up without computer assistance. Most can not find the crab nebula without it.

Lol I remember that ( put it on my tab guy )
My bad, I didn't realize the telescope was the important part about a picture of you getting a gummer from Tom.
 
Having gone to gem and mineral shows, and bought shiny chunks of minerals myself, it irritates the fuck out of me when the seller starts sperging about the magical healing powers of crystals.
Like, just shut up already! Just give me basic information like type and origin and keep the energy mumbo jumbo too yourself. I'm not buying crystals to cleanse my chakras, I just want interesting bits of rock that look cool.
 
David Price thinks we give a fuck what he has to say. He either posts gibberish pseudoscience or alogs Thomas, and yes I mean that in every definition of the word that's out there.

David is the personification of the 30 Rock meme.
 
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Having gone to gem and mineral shows, and bought shiny chunks of minerals myself, it irritates the fuck out of me when the seller starts sperging about the magical healing powers of crystals.
Like, just shut up already! Just give me basic information like type and origin and keep the energy mumbo jumbo too yourself. I'm not buying crystals to cleanse my chakras, I just want interesting bits of rock that look cool.
I hate that. I had a friend that was into new age shit and would go to the new age store in my town. He would buy random shit: mostly rocks. Some rocks looks pretty but when they go into the whole “this one will give you green energy that will fuse your soul with god and your mind can travel the cosmos” I’m just thinking “bitch, I’m an atheist, just give me the pretty blue rock and stop smoking DMT.”
 
my name isn't Thomas and what makes you think you're entitled to know all these things when you're too stupid to even know gemstones from gravel?

i've been in this trade for nearly forty years. this year was the first year i had buying power. no pirate booty. just smart buying. how much do you think i paid for the malachite? most of them are fibrous and chatoyant. they're also completely unpolished, which is difficult to get because the Congo won't export it without a polished face. my designer cabs sell pretty well actually and i get a pretty decent price for them. i'll get at least forty dollars a pop for any of those fire agates i finish.

i sell to boutiques all the time and i'm about to open a showroom on the freeway access road when Rapa River opens full time. I'll be doing shows with them all over the country and i'm getting retail prices at facebook and sometimes eBay.

Stone sells as a commodity all the way up to to the wholesale level. the last two steps are entirely based on aesthetics of the buyer and marketing of the seller. the big red chunk is rhodonite that sells easily at a dollar per gram. next to it is a rubellite tourmaline. in the second set of pictures is ruby, blue green beryl, fire agate, orange tourmaline and himalya mine tourmaline. this is not shit stone and anybody calling it shit stone is just a hate obsessed fool. this material sells by caratweight.
No one is going to buy your shit quality rhodonite for $1/g and your 5 pound hunk of garbage quality lapidary malachite can be found in any blue state thrift store for <$30. It does warm my heart to see that the guy operating the Himalaya Mine is still gouging people at shows, though. How much did he squeeze from you for that muddy rubellite crystal that's so included that nothing can ever be cut from it?

$10 per thin slab of awful quality British Columbian jade too.. Why would you brag about *any* of these purchases lol
 
I've taken a few trips for some myself! Funny to think that stuff you can pick off of a beach for free is leagues better and bigger than what the hippies in AZ are offering for a premium.

But hey, Tom is the best semiprecious buyer in the biz'.. *sigh*
Camp around Ogden and walk by the falls. While the stuff you'll find around the water isn't as nice, it'll do for beginner crafts. The real nice stuff is the slabs you'll find under pressure.
 
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