If it were a real ancient item proven to be made from a meteorite, I wouldn’t be able to afford it. Contrary to your impression of the cash value, something like that would be very rare, very sought after, and very valuable. Think tens of thousands or more. There are a few known old meteoritic tools/weapons/jewelery items, but they are rare enough that they get papers written about them and museum displays. The reason these wands go so cheap is because nobody believes that they are meteoritic.
Now THIS is a real concern with ALL of my eBay purchases, and how one can buy an entire suit if armor for less than $500…
I kid you not I bought “replicas” of Sumerian cuneiform for $30 each that look identical to those in the Louvre. Someone didn’t get paid enough to produce these museum-quality pieces. I bought 5 African stone aged flint spear tips…$15 each from an antique dealer while on vacation. I picked up arrow heads for miles upon miles with my Dad growing up, this nap work was ancient and the pieces were like a multitool- it could cut, chop, and had aerodynamic principles! Absolute treasures, all, that I paid pennies for.
All of my purchases made it through customs inspections, and they are what they are.
Of this I have absolutely no doubt, Storage Wars participants sell what they find- CHEAP. Ebay is a garden is treasures…
“There are treasures in this world, hidden away, or their real value not fully comprehended. They can be yours if you know where to look.”
I gave you a link…do some research!
I can easily test it for Nickel, today. I’ll report back.
“And where to look is Ebay and Esty.”
Listen, do you own a bridge yet? Because I could give you a really good deal on one in Brooklyn.
If the Universe gives everyone what they deserve, how does buying a trinket from eBay make the Universe believe you deserve better than your neighbor?
Antique stores…and Yes, sometimes Ebay, but you have to know how to find them. They are often mis-labeled, or their origins unknown. Sometimes they are in disrepair or missing pieces.
Investigate your purchases, sincerely, but don’t pass up a good deal, too hard to believe.
There’s a magic wand made of your most prized sought after material, for less than $200!! Take a gamble, roll the dice, you might get a “7”!!
“Sometimes”…I said it isn’t perfect.
My eBay purchases have nothing to do with Karma. I didn’t make that connection.
Then why did you buy the wand, if not to give you an advantage influencing the All-Being?
'Cause “Pretty.”
I mean that’s why I bought it. I guess I received it for so little because I was supposed to have it?
So, it is a trinket, and of no value in proving that effective magic or magic wands exist.
Thank you for contributing nothing to this very old thread.
I may have bought it as that, but have found its hidden qualities.
Thank you for ignoring evidence contrary to your belief system, traditionalism and closed-minded people everywhere applaud you.
Wild claims are not evidence. It looks like you bought a mass-produced metal stick for a ridiculous amount of money, and to justify your purchase you have talked yourself into believing it has vague magical powers that don’t exactly leave any evidence that they exist. Your tale reminds me of an old Robert McCloskey Homer Price story called “Ever-So-Much-More-So”, in which a traveling salesman sold townfolk tins of a “magical” powder that would make anything that was good just a tiny bit, ever so much more so, better.
BTW, you should really quit using the word “magic” to mean so many different things, because if you water it down so that it means practically anything, then you have watered it down so that it means practically nothing.
“$67” is a ridiculous amount of money?
I tell you what, the next time you see something you REALLY want, for $75 or less, you contact me, just this once…and I’ll buy it for you. No questions asked. I’ll drop $50-100 in a donation bucket, and think myself the better for it.
My wand is only “magical” TO YOU. I fully understand it is a metal rod or conductor, focusing or directing my energy, and its makers did too.
Seriously, let me know which fund I can donate to, so that you’re less pissy & jelly.
So now the stick isn’t magical, but you are?
This is what bothers me about woo-believers: “I bought this wand/crystal/Ganesha figure because it’s pretty and I like it” is a perfectly good, valid reason for making a purchase. No further explanation needed.
But that’s not enough for the woo-fans. They have to tell us that the wand “redirects chakra energy”, or that the quartz crystal heals their headache/aligns their vibrations with the universe/allows them to telepathically communicate with the cat. As Douglas Adams put it, “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
(bolding mine)For you to know this you would have to know who made your stick.
Who manufactured it?
Let’s not stoop to ad homophone attacks.
To your eyes, both would seem ‘magical’.
I am not magical, just practiced and learned in things you are not.
Incredible claim to make without having any knowledge as to what I know and/or don’t know.
BTW, who made that wand of yours?