xhonzi said:

Gaffer Tape said:

Xhonzi's logic is sound...

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However, if you're genuinely buying it used, as in buying it from someone who originally bought it and then decided to no longer have it, then that's a different story. You're not creating any more demand the product. You're simply creating a situation wherein one unique copy is being effectively shared between two or more people, when it would previously have only been meant for one.

Except you ARE still lowering supply. If you buy it, someone else can't. It doesn't have the same effect that buying it new would, but it will still have some effect. You're increasing the "final destinations" for the BD by 1.

But wouldn't that even out? The person you're buying it from lowered the supply by one. You repurchasing the same set gives it an added value of one. Two people "benefitted" (and I use that term loosely here) from one set. The only way in the instance I posited that that would generate more demand is if the demand for used copies of the sets exceeded the number of established owners willing to sell the set, leading to someone buying it new or from a reseller instead. It's certainly possible, but I have a hard time believing that a niche demand (people insisting on buying it legitimately used) outpaces those who are interested in selling it, especially since the latter number is going to continue to grow over the next couple of months/years.

You're not creating a new middleman.

And I'm not sure what you mean by saying that there isn't a new middleman. In my post, I meant that the eBay seller is yet another middle man. Maybe a new one, maybe not. I don't think it matters.

Yes, I know what you meant. I was referring to a situation where you actually are buying a "legtimately used" copy as opposed to just going to a reseller. Technically, I guess that's still a new middleman. Ostensibly, though, if you were buying a real used copy, it would cost substantially less than buying it for retail. I suppose I was referring to the price markup of having an added middleman since that was the impression I thought you were making with that statement.