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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4223626" data-attributes="member: 22779">Funny you bring up cars.&nbsp; I live in Japan.&nbsp; I drive a 1998 Mitsubishi.&nbsp; Yeah, old car, but, in a country with no snow, cars last quite a while.&nbsp; I went into the dealer the other day to find out how much I could get for trade.&nbsp; His answer?&nbsp; I have to pay about 500 dollars on top of the new car to dispose of my old car.&nbsp; I have now talked to about a dozen dealers and gotten pretty much the same answer.&nbsp; So, &quot;drive it for a while and sell it&quot; is not exactly true.Heck, when I did work in the car industry, we often got POS cars on trade ins.&nbsp; We'd usually give about a hundred dollars off the new car and then turn around and sell the clunker to the scrap yard for about 500-700 dollars.&nbsp; Hey, look 500% ROI.Yet, you don't see used car dealers randomly trolling parking lots asking people to sell their old cars.&nbsp; IMO, the only market that remotely approaches a magic market would be antiquities.&nbsp; These are fairly singular items that are pretty hard to come by.&nbsp; Sure, +1 swords are comparatively common and whatnot, but, realistically, it's a sellers market.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 4223626, member: 22779"] Funny you bring up cars. I live in Japan. I drive a 1998 Mitsubishi. Yeah, old car, but, in a country with no snow, cars last quite a while. I went into the dealer the other day to find out how much I could get for trade. His answer? I have to pay about 500 dollars on top of the new car to dispose of my old car. I have now talked to about a dozen dealers and gotten pretty much the same answer. So, "drive it for a while and sell it" is not exactly true. Heck, when I did work in the car industry, we often got POS cars on trade ins. We'd usually give about a hundred dollars off the new car and then turn around and sell the clunker to the scrap yard for about 500-700 dollars. Hey, look 500% ROI. Yet, you don't see used car dealers randomly trolling parking lots asking people to sell their old cars. IMO, the only market that remotely approaches a magic market would be antiquities. These are fairly singular items that are pretty hard to come by. Sure, +1 swords are comparatively common and whatnot, but, realistically, it's a sellers market. [/QUOTE]

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