X-T1 still f/s at relatively high prices, do they sell?

[milandro]

Periodically I do have a look on the site of my trusted chain of camera shops in the NL and to my amazement I see the “ old” X-T1 still for sale at relatively high prices for a camera that is last year’s flavor of the month .

 

 I own, use and love the X-T1 and will only (at this point) part from it when it stops working. I am really doing all I need to do and I don’t see how any of the new cameras would make me do anything in a better way than my camera does already.

 

Having said this.

 

The graphite edition body would set you back now €999 which, if you ask me, is still a VERY respectable amount of money.

 

https://www.kamera-express.nl/product/12201039/fujifilm-x-t1-graphite-zilver-body-flitser/?channable=e27102.MTIyMDEwMzk

 

But are these cameras still selling? Really? I can’t imagine someone whom, would go in a shop and buy a digital camera that is no longer in production (how different it was the secondhand camera business in the days when you could have used a camera for decades without becoming truly obsolete).

 

Why don’t they slash the price down and get rid of the aging stock before it becomes truly unsellable? 

Edited October 23, 2017 by milandro

[Ben Bishop]

Prices for used are set by demand and it seems that used X-T1's are selling quickly at only a modest discount to the price of new. That tells me the relatively high price of a camera that has been superseded is realistic. I guess we're not the only ones watching for that drop!

[milandro]

actually I wan’t talking of used prices, but new “ old stock"