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

Tak K wrote:

Jeff Biscuits wrote:

I’ve been buying and selling a lot over the past 18 months and yes, prices have gone up a bit. All the X100 models seem to often fetch around £100 more than they did a year ago, but that’s certainly not always the case. In the last week or so I’ve seen at least two original X100s go for just over £200. My belief is that the shortage of new X100Vs has buoyed used prices and that’s trickled down through the older versions. But, to be fair, other X System models have been attracting higher prices too.

But you do have to bear a few things in mind with eBay. Firstly, asking prices aren’t selling prices: lots of people aim for crazy money and fail to sell. Secondly, you can absolutely still get a bargain if you’re canny—but you have to put the effort in. But thirdly, despite what you might expect, eBay isn’t the cheapest place to buy and never was. I rarely buy from eBay but I always sell there… 😉

Just keep plugging away; if you’re prepared to spend time watching then you’ll find what you want at a good price.

Thanks. My perception is that there used to be a lot of private seller auctions of Fujifilm cameras on eBay. Now, it's full of "Buy it now" at very high prices. So maybe, as you say, I just need to keep looking for a good find...

Some of this is ebay's fault because they've changed their fee scheme to discourage anything other than an open, reserve-less auction... And who wants to do that when you're selling something worth hundreds of dollars. So you either start the listing at the price you want right of the bat, which is much more than the commercial sellers are starting at (so you get little to no action) or you skip the auction hassle and just set a buy it now at the price you want. Joe's camera can afford to risk listing their XT1 at $25 starting, I can't because with my luck the listing will get buried and it'll end up going for $35.

Also don't underestimate the YouTube influence. There are about a billion "xxx old Fuji camera, still awesome in 2022" videos out there. Those DO drive market demand.