Used Camalot prices

I was following the For sale/ wanted forum and noticed that the used cams for sale are priced relatively high comparing to new ones. In EBAY it's the same. Why is that?

People are stupid and will buy used gear to save 5 bucks?

Similar to Japanese cars, Chinese made cams depreciate less. I mean who wants to whip on american or british aluminum?

Matt N wrote:Similar to Japanese cars, Chinese made cams depreciate less. I mean who wants to whip on american or british aluminum?

That is one reason that can explain why pepole are willing to spend 45$ (and more) on the old style. So the old style camalot was made in the US, but do all the new c4 are made in China? I mean, was there a time when the new c4s where made in the US?

Second reason(?): I was thinking that maybe the rare 3.5# and the 4.5# that went off the shelves pumped up the prices. What do you think?

Where is the example of the chinese assembled C4s being less reliable than the u.s. made?

I'd speculate that it has more to do with the useful life of a cam and less with where it was manufactured. Only a small % of the usergroup actually cares enough about where it was made to buy/not buy a particular cam. Many may whine on the interweb about outsourced manufacturing, but a majority of climbers still buy BD cams.

Doesn't a cam that's been placed 50 or 100 times [assuming no abuse and proper maintenance] protect just as well as a brand new one? IMO it does, and that's why cams don't get super cheap after being used a few times. Because they don't get much cheaper, I usually just buy new.

Israel wrote: I was thinking that maybe the rare 3.5# and the 4.5# that went off the shelves pumped up the prices. What do you think?

The new #4 is essentially the old #3.5, which was the same size as the #4 friend. The old style #4 dissappeared entirely, and there is literally no other cam on the market that covers its range.

Kenny Thompson wrote:Where is the example of the chinese assembled C4s being less reliable than the u.s. made?

I'm still waiting.....

How many years has it been now?

4 years?

Even a small savings on every cam adds up! If you buy 20 cams and save $10 to $20 off of retail per cam, that's a decent chunk of change...

markrineer wrote:Even a small savings on every cam adds up! If you buy 20 cams and save $10 to $20 off of retail per cam, that's a decent chunk of change...

that's true, but still...
You can look and find a good deal (the shipping fees there are to overseas orders) and don't be stupid. There are people out there that pay even more on used cams

Got two tens for a five?