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The X100v hype pushing prices to crazy leves

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Jeff Biscuits Senior Member • Posts: 1,166
Re: The X100v hype pushing prices to crazy leves
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Montanawildlives wrote:

To your point, it seems that it would be foolish to develop a new model when the old one would sell like hotcakes if they could just get it out.

The “if” is the key word. They can’t, otherwise they would, and then prices wouldn’t have risen.

I bought my X100V a year ago and it was already hard to get hold of. Supply-side issues were already significant and they haven’t improved. It was only much later that demand went up, and with no supply of new items buyers had to turn to the used market, where supply was still massively outstripped, so prices have risen and certain other models have picked up some of the over demand, so they’ve risen too.

If Fuji could crank out X100Vs right now they would be doing it (and the used market wouldn’t have inflated). Similarly, if they can get going asap on the next model they will.

There have been a ton of threads on this. Fuji doesn’t gain from the inflated used market. There’s no conspiracy. It will pass.

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