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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 53841" data-attributes="member: 3903">Well, one thing you have to remember is this: Photo stores are in business for business. At the end, they have to make a profit. Now Nikon is very kind of strict with it's pricing policies so dealers pretty well can sell the products with a nice profit and they try to make you believe that they don't do a big markup on these items. Well, business being business, the fact is we don't know how much they are making. What does this have to do with your question you'll ask. Well, lets say you had a store selling a product for 750$. If the product cost you 450.00$, you are making a good profit, but let's say it cost you 500$, then you made 250$ gross profit on that sale. Now let's say the customer comes back and wants to upgrade, why would you give back the commission you made on the sale? Would you buy back a used product and pay more than you would from the wholesaler? I think this is the heart of the problem. Stores make a profit and then they don't want to take the chance of selling a used product to make less money than on a brand new one. For them, it's the same amount of work. If they can't make the same profit on a second hand product, they'd rather sell a new one. This is why, the same applies when you buy a new car, the minute you walk out of the store with a new product, you just paid something for the dealer that sold it to you, and this money will be in his pockets.</blockquote>

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