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Second-hand Fujifilm shortage on ebay & prices going up?

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
OP Tak K New Member • Posts: 22
Re: Second-hand Fujifilm shortage on ebay & prices going up?

Thanks all

Interesting... To summarise the theories:

  • Shortage of supply of second-hand Fujifilm cameras? Not enough people selling cameras?
    • Fujifilm users not upgrading so second-hand cameras are not coming on the market. (I wonder what the status for other camera brands are?)
    • Prices of new cameras keep going up so people are sticking to their old ones.
    • Shortage of X100V pushing up prices of older X100-series. (But other Fujifilm cameras have also gone up in price in the past year).
  • Supply and demand - I'm guessing there's no reason to suspect that demand's changed much so it's just tighter supply?
  • eBay crowded out by commercial sellers and fewer private sellers on eBay these days. Pricing on eBay distorted by Japanese listings. Look for second-hand cameras elsewhere.

I do hope this is just a phase and there will be plentiful supply of reasonably-priced second-hand cameras in the future. In the meantime, I'm going to try to fix my X100S and keep it going until that time. Hopefully it just needs a $10 replacement LCD screen and nothing more serious.

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Fujifilm X100S Ricoh GR Nikon D3100 +1 more
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