Dollar Values of used telescope sold here!!!!

Its not a house, Its not a Corvette, Its not a Harley.
So why do some people try to sell there used scope at the new or next to new price?????? Then they get upset when you offer them market value. Its like anything else in the world. the minute you drive it off the "new" lot it losses 2%-5% value. Two recent ads are top examples. one is a 3 yea old LX200 10" with extras for $4000.00. This is pure sentimenal value and has no place in any market. For $4000.00 I could get a new 10"GPS with new coatings and all the extras and still have money left over to eat at a steak house for a couple of weeks.
The other ad was a LX200 12" a few years old and next to no extras for $3500.00. For $500 more dollars I could pick up a
new 12"GPS with new coating and a warranty.
I don't know, maybe its just me but I hope not. and I don't think it is just me. Would anybody here but a three year old used motorcycle at a new price. or a camera, a guitar or anyting else.
I don't know who first said it but its still true.
An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. reguardless of what it is.
Comments please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK maybe I over did it on the $4000 ad. A couple of extras
and no steak house.

I am selling one of the telescopes on Astromart. When you have close to $5000.00 invested and all the items have been
perfectly cared for and some brand new; i think selling it
at approx. 70% invested is a fair price. I am not going to give it away. It is up to the buyer to determine if the equipment is worth it. You can buy a new 12 inch for $4000.00,
but use the internet and price the cost of items that i am
selling, they are not cheap. If you buy those items with
your new scope, you will have spent close to $5000.00.
I think $3500.00 is a fair price. It is a asking price and
can be negotiated.

Let the people ask whatever they want for their scopes. All they're doing is asking, and if the price is too high they haven't hurt anything except perhaps to waste a bit of their own time. It doesn't cause you any pain to read an ad with a price that's too high so what does it matter?

---Daniel