It is not just unavailability (lack of supply). It is rather a (dis-)balance of a demand and supply, and hence an indicator of the demand.
Indeed, if Pentax were providing reasonable supply the prices would be lower, but Pentax would be selling their products and hopefully making money. As previously discussed, it is the same story as with 300-s and 200-s which also sell high. Igor Sat Oct 20 17:27:25 EDT 2007 graywolf wrote: Of course, if Pentax was making a modern version, or even the same version, the used ones would not be going that high. It is unavailability that is making it valuable. Igor Roshchin wrote: > About 1.5 years ago, at the very last moment I decided not to place > my bid on e-bay for a Pentax 1.7x AF which I would have won for ~$150 > or less if I placed that bid. > In the last 2-5 months I saw them going on e-bay for about $300 or so. > This morning one was bought for $610. > http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=250175380367 > > Geee.... > That's the market where Pentax is not getting its money. > > Igor > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
