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

Tak K wrote:

My X100S is dying and I was looking to get another second-hand Fujifilm from ebay (UK) and I noticed that there don't seem to be many X100 series listed on ebay as previously and prices are up. For example the X100S seems to be around £450. When I bought mine 5 years ago, they were £350-£400. XE-3 are around £380-£450. They were around £300 a year ago.

Are others seeing this?

Maybe it's inflation, fall in the pound or component shortages stopping people buying new cameras? Or maybe people have stopped buying new cameras all together?

What's going on?

In addition to the valid points made by other contributors to this thread about post-pandemic supply shortages, one other aspect of Fuji cameras is how collectible they are.

Many Fuji users keep their older cameras when they upgrade because they have a nostalgic attachment to them. Other users will “miss” their X-T1, X-Pro1. X-Pro2, X-E1, etc that they previously traded in and now go seeking to replace it by buying a used one, to add to their collection.

People talk about the various X-Trans sensors having slightly different colour characteristics - so they want to buy an older model for that alternative nuance.

I don’t have any statistics to back this up, but I sense that this phenomena is more common among Fuji and Leica users, than with other brands.

This all leads to the demand for used older Fuji’s to remain high.