Why so many Sony Scd-1 for sale?

You may see the answer from another question:

Why there are not many SA1 selling in market?

I used to received offer to have Sony SCD-1 add cash to exchange to SA-1.

Phild-The Sony project manager even admitted that they couldn't take this to the level they thought it could go as far as the electronics. The build quality and the transport section are the remarkable things of this unit. Just saw the Luxman-oooooh!

to say 'I dont' think the SCD-1 will ever become badly outdated' is almost silly. In the digital world, advances come at a staggering pace. Just look at the past 10 years and look at the path of the common CD sound to what we have today. Of course it will become badly outdated. It's just a matter of time.

I thought my $4500 Compaq P133 would never become badly outdated. Ha! 5 years later it made it to the local land fill....

I thought my Sony DVD7000 would never become badly outdated. Great build quality. Ha! 4 years later and it's relegated to the playroom by a $200 Panasonic.....

People get in and get out when the market is right. If you want a SCD-1 then by all means buy one. Enjoy it. A few years from now it might make a good boat anchor...

Hey krocdoc, you are wrong but I don't really care. If it's good now it will always be good, despite tastes (or lack thereof) or flavor of the month changing. My examples and info stands on its own as an accurate observation of the situation.

YMMV,
-Ed

I have noticed that sales of a particular component comes and goes like the tide. Each set of waves within tide represent a different group of people buying the component. It always starts off with the guy who must buy new and is a dealer's buddy for equipment trade-ins. Thankfully for them, there are those at the next tide who only buy slightly used ones, then the next tide are those who look for bargains on yesterday's big names (like me ;), etc. With each tide comes a new rush of sales followed by a vanishing act where you hardly see them on the market for a few months. Anyway, just like everything else in life, it just acts in waves. Then, to perpetuate the cycle, people come to new conclusions on...the tide of the latest and greatest new products! Anyway, it's my observation and it seems to fit the data in most cases. Arthur