I always put some in my Japanese curry too. Kinda slippery when you cut it.
the price is averaged. craigslist which has no tax and no fee is at the same point. guitar center is seeing the same price range. this is supply and demand, it doesnāt matter who getās paid what, at the end of the day it is what the consumer spends. I can tell you 100% if I sell a car and the government then audits me and seizes the assets in my bank account immediately after I transfer the title, the person who bought it did not pay any less.
I understand your perspective that it doesnāt seem like itās accurate because it does not reflect value to the seller, but value to the seller is always secondary to what the consumer pays. My commentary wasnāt about āyouāre sitting on a goldmineā itās about the bubble inflation of the sale price on used digitakt over the period of the week following the introduction of the new OS. Resale prices on monomachine during their lifespan were never close to this. digitakt is sitting at over 80% of itās retail value on a used market, itās pretty unheard of for a product which is not a collectors item and can still be purchased new.
regardless of who is selling on reverb, if itās selling it means a sale was made and money changed hands. if it sits for a year, itās not a good example or itās a good example of how not to price a product. but in a month Iāll re-average the sales for march and see if there was a decrease in sales, or an increase in price and how that balances out. Also since Iām not willing to give ebay my information reverb is the only place I can view accurate sold data.
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A new OS came out, and the second hand stock was bought by people previously on the fence or who really needs the new features or maybe sold a DT awhile back because it didnāt do slicing or whatever. But itās temporary and things will go back down again. Itās just sellers being cheeky because they know thereās temporarily higher demand now.
Comparing to MnM doesnāt work for me. Thatās long out of production and far fewer were made. DT is far from unobtainium right now.
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only time will tell, at this point itās purely speculation in either direction.
Yep, agree with you.
Iām only saying that reverb sales are a small fraction of the total transactions and are not so much indicative of the real value and the market. also, usually RV is where non-experienced people buy (not only them ofc)
I still see a lot of digitakt being sold (and sat there for months) for 450/500 eur in Europe.
Comparison with the monomachine canāt be made. People, nowadays tend to sell used gear at much less loss than years ago.
80% of its retail value (Minus expenses) Is the norm, at least, in modular realm.
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you believe the monomachine is priced fairly at $2000-$3000? thatās your perogative, I wonāt rob you of an opinion.
show me a $3000 korg triton, itās been out of production longer.
But thereās still shit loads of them about on eBay.
Itās not about how long theyāve been off the market, itās about scarcity.
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absolutely korg is a huge company compared to elektron but the sid station is selling for half of what the monomachine is right now, and if there is a question of scarcity I guarantee the sid station wins. Itās all just used gear, you arenāt going to convince me the market is not artificially inflated around the monomachine right now. I love the fucking thing but in my opinion which is as valid or informed as anyones I hope, there is a heavy lean on that bad boy compared to other synths even from elektron.
If reverb is the only place I can find them for sale I have to use that as the plucking ground because there are no sid stations on elektronauts for sale - there are 2 on reverb, $1500 and $1595, there are 16 monomachines, one is $1975, one is 2300, the rest are between 2700 and $4084. by logic of scarcity the sid station should cost 10,000. The market is inflated around the mnm.
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Oh I agree, itās ridiculously inflated.
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Elektron increased the price of the Digitakt by ā¬100 to ā¬949 as well. So thatās another reason why the used prices go up.
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if I ever run a political smear campaign youāre gonna be my ace
Donāt talk to me about smearing, Iāve got a toddler
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this is why youāre the ace.
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Well then smoke me a kipperā¦
Iāll be back for breakfast.
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ā¦oh and maaaaaaaaabeeeeeeey, since we ruled out the sophie factor, 2nd hand market simply correlates with actual listed retailer pricetagsā¦and hell yeah, all actual elektron devices were never that pricyā¦
in case of the ot, even within considering actual inflation rates, itās more expansive than on itās day one, almost one and a half decades agoā¦
i bought my dt the week it came outā¦that was under 700 bux including taxesā¦
right now itās listed brandnewā¦ 899,-ā¦!
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Strange how the market for āshoes you can fuckā is not as large as expected.
Scarcity is as organic as it gets (donāt mention the MnM cabal.)
Well after. When it went out of production they were cheeeeep.
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Try searching for āshoes you can make love toā instead.
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Prices in France are rather constant since July 2017, oscillating between 400 and 600ā¬.
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itās only in the last week that there shows this drastic inflation of interest and thus pricing. Iām sure everyone is correct, it will pass as soon as the new Roland video or something similar is released.
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I see you, double-daring someone to make a wavetable out of it ā¦ 
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