That’s still pretty true. Good condition used items on eBay often seem to go for near MSRP - even if it’s easy to get a new one below MSRP from regular retailer

That’s still pretty true. Good condition used items on eBay often seem to go for near MSRP - even if it’s easy to get a new one below MSRP from regular retailers! It’s interesting what eBay has done to the used market in general. Before the internet, it was a rule of thumb that something second hand (from e.g. local classified ads) would be no more than 50% of the retail price. I think that eBay drove prices up by opening the market nationally (and internationally), so that people who _really_ wanted anything could find it - and the large discount previously necessary to guarantee sale in a small, local, pool was no longer necessary. I wonder if there have been studies down on this.