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

Started 7 months ago | Discussions thread
Coldpaw Contributing Member • Posts: 772
Still a rise in prices...
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...at least in Europe or MPB Germany in particular. Especially Fujifilm products have increased in price, at least some of them:

  • The X-Pro2 is listed at over €1000 for a "Good" camera, if you want to pay less than a quad-digit amount of money, you have to settle with a "Well Used" one. More than a year ago an XP2 in "Excellent" condition was less than a thousand Euros.
  • The X100V is sold out, essentially it is always sold out as new used stock usually sells within hours, but the last time I checked an "Excellent" V cost essentially as much as I paid for mine when I bought it new in spring 2021.
  • An "Excellent" Fujifilm X-E4 is priced as much as a new one, yet since that camera is virtually sold out in all stores, I guess they can easily request this price.
  • One can repeat that with the X-S10, which is essentially as expensive as the initial launch price.

However retail prices also went up significantly. A new X-T4 is almost €1800, that's more than the "Dura" models of the XP3 were priced last year, the X-T4 was usually around 1500-1600 bucks. Speaking of the X-Pro3, the standard black variant is now priced at over €1900, I got mine for 200 less last year. The "Dura" models are close to €2200, last year you could get them on discount regularly for just a bit more than the standard black model.

What's worth noting: Most products are out of stock, as simple as it is. My go-to camera store has almost no APS-C Fujifilm cameras in stock and they are actually a very good Fujifilm dealer. Checking other shops shows a similar picture, even though I at least see some X-T4, X-T30 II and X-H2S in stock.
With such a shortage of new stock and especially more expensive prices, I am not too surprised 2nd hand prices caught on and also spiked upwards. If the demand and retail price (if you can even find one) for an X100V, to name an example, would be huge, I'd also try to make a good buck when selling mine. In fact when I did sold mine a couple of weeks ago to MPB, I was pleasently surprised by how much they offered.

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