70# boulder of Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper (Craigslist)

Yowch, too rich for my blood! It's a beautiful boulder, though.

Yea, they better pay another years storage right away because at that price they won't be selling much.

Nice piece though. Thanks for sharing.



Jason

I once bought a deceased friend's reptile collection. His daughter was basing her asking price on conversations she had with dad...

This tortoise is worth $1500-......... This snake is worth $1000-............ The daughter felt she had $60,000 worth of animals.

Times change and so do prices. Dad is dead and the ENTIRE collection needed rapid liquidation. The ability to make that happen must have some discount value as does simply buying a HUUUUGE volume. Truthfully, I bought the collection for $0.20 on the dollar. That made the headache of making it happen for the animal's and the family's sake worthwhile (but not extra profitable). I am totally comfortable with having taken care of my friend's daughter in this manner.

In the present case the stone can sit in the backyard and when they get re-motivated to sell they will re-think price. It may take two or three iterations before they reach real market value.

Tommy that rock is yours. You just don't know it yet. Neither does the seller. Call them back, make them your most generous offer and ask them to re-consider. When they turn you down, then ask them to keep your number stating the offer is good for a year. Put it in your calendar to call then in two months. Either it sold or more likely not. Then re-iterate your offer, making it good for another 12 months. Call back in two months. Lather rinse repeat until they decide to sell. I have used this method of buying for MANY valuable and profitable items in the last 30 years.

The key is to know what your generous off is and keep making those calls until they finally get real. The twelve months offer makes you credible, calling back in two makes you serious. Sooner or later they will accept this now credible offer from the most serious buyer.

I can here the followup call now:



I got some really nice lizards this way. YMMV lol

Oh..

Then yes, he must die first.

Then his descendants can throw it in the landfill.

and I thought poppy jasper was called that because of the pattern, not because the price makes your eyes pop!
wow!

That's a great looking boulder, at $15lb. At $30lb not so great looking. I live in Morgan Hill and collect/buy all I can get. Recently bought 15lb, very nice rocks(Morgan Hill poppyjasper) for $1 a pound, at a garage sale. The local rock store sells poppy jasper rough for $10lb. They keep the poppyjasper boulders (rough) in the back, so ask. I see plenty on ebay I'd like to get but can't/won't participate in those prices.

Acevedo's House of Poppy Jasper. I met the owner, Gino, by way of Stones in Motion owner, Ed aka Stoner, about a year before he opened his store on Monterey Rd. I had contacted Stoner on this board asking about where to get some morganhillpoppyjasper and we met at Gino's house. Proving that PJ is not as rare as advertised, there were pj boulders all over the place (not native to the property), collected from all over Morgan Hill, some much bigger than me. He's not the only one around here with huge caches of poppyjasper, but, he has a store.

I will be heading up to Sacramento in August. Hopefully the kidlet will let me stop at Acevedo's so I can "shop" for a solid spheremaking piece.

That 70# boulder kills me.

sacramento.craigslist.org/clt/5105105741.html

That's less than $27 per pound this time.