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(UnionPac2001)
wrote:

wrote:

Orion prices are not "low" they appear to represent the trade-in price.

Perhaps you are correct. This is the way Orion lists their prices:

RETAIL
used: $
msrp: $
WHOLESALE
mint: $
average: $

I made the (perhaps erroneous) assumption that "RETAIL used: $" was the
amount
the item would command when sold by a DEALER to a private individual, and
that
"WHOLESALE mint: $, and WHOLESALE average: $" were the prices a DEALER would
pay for the items to a private person selling (or trading in) the items. I
guess I'm just confused... : (

I think you have it right. My comment was just that Orion prices aren't "low"
they just represent what you could expect in a dealer-related transaction. What
you can get from a private buyer/seller in a given deal is another issue
entirely.

By the way a few years ago I had my staff conduct a time/price analysis on
every power amplifier and cd player listed in Orion going back as far as the
listings allowed. Interestingly the trade-in prices (market value) of those
electronic products fell even more quickly than the ACRS depreciation schedules
from the IRS (within 3 years trade-in value of those products fell to 25% of
the MSRP and by 5 years had leveled off at 5-7% of MSRP. The only exceptions
were certain legacy collector products like MacIntosh power amplifiers.